Jan Bartuška

Jan Bartuška (born May 17, 1908 , † August 27, 1970 ) was a Czechoslovak lawyer, communist functionary, politician and minister.

Political career

Bartuška, who studied law, became professor of constitutional law at Charles University in Prague in 1951, and from 1951–1953 he was dean of the law faculty.

Bartuška started his political career in 1945 as a district judge. In 1946 he became a member of the State National Committee in Bohemia, from 1946 to 1950 he was chairman of the district committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in Budweis , since 1946 also a member of parliament and in 1948 chairman of the constitutional committee of the parliament in Prague and from July 14, 1949 a member of the parliamentary bureau .

From December 1954 to June 1956 Bartuška was Minister of Justice in the government of Viliam Široký , from June 1956 to 1968 Attorney General of Czechoslovakia. He had to give up this post on March 14, 1968 because, from the perspective of the ongoing reform process of 1968, it was compromised and no longer sustainable.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Shorthand transcript of the parliamentary session of July 14, 1949, online at: www.psp.cz , Czech, accessed on December 30, 2010
2. ↑ Mark Kramer, The Kremlin, the Prague Spring, and the Brezhnev doctrine, online at: www.foia.cia.gov ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked . Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 14, accessed December 30, 2010 

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• Zakázaný document. Zpráva komise ÚV KSČ o politických procesech a rehabilitacích v Československu 1949-68 (Prohibited document. Report of the Commission of the Central Committee of the KSČ on the political processes and rehabilitation in Czechoslovakia 1949-68), Europa-Verlag, Vienna 1970 (Czech edition), Introduction and closing words by Jiří Pelikán (appendix with biographies)