Ján Ursíny
Ján Ursíny (born October 11, 1896 in Rakša , Austria-Hungary , † January 8, 1972 Rakša, Czechoslovakia ) was a Czechoslovak and Slovak politician of the Agrarian Party.
Life
In the 1930s he was involved in the Slovak agrarian movement, which he represented as a member of the parliament of the First Czechoslovak Republic . He was one of Milan Hodža's collaborators , but Ursíny, in contrast to him as a staunch patriot, did not identify with Czechoslovakism .
Ursíny was the organizer and one of the direct initiators of the Slovak National Uprising . After the war he was discredited as co-founder and vice chairman of the Democratic Party in 1947 by the communists , who subsequently arrested him and sentenced him to a long prison term. Ursiny was released in 1953, but he never returned to political life.
Web links
- Ján Ursíny on www.osobnosti.sk (Slovak)
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| SURNAME | Ursíny, Ján |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ursiny, Jan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czechoslovak and Slovak politicians of the Agrarian Party |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 11, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rakša , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 8, 1972 |
| Place of death | Rakša , Czechoslovakia |