Jan Fischer (politician)
Jan Fischer (born January 2, 1951 in Prague ) is a Czech statistician and politician. He headed the Fischer government , which was in office as a transitional government from May 8, 2009 to July 13, 2010, and was Minister of Finance in the Jiří Rusnok government .
Life
Jan Fischer comes from a Jewish family, his father is a survivor of the Holocaust. He studied at the University of Economics in Prague and graduated in 1974. From 1980 to 1989 he was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia . Shortly after completing his studies, he started to work for the Czechoslovak statistical office. There he became deputy head in 1990 and held this position until the state split in 1993. In April 2003 he was appointed head of the Czech Statistical Office (Český statistický úřad) .
He is married for the second time and has three children. Fischer lives with his family in a prefabricated building in the Barrandov district of Prague . As Prime Minister he refused to move into the official service villa.
politics
Prime Minister
After the Topolánek II government was overthrown in March 2009, Jan Fischer was commissioned on April 9, 2009 to form a transitional government made up of non-party members, which should take over the business of government until early elections in October 2009. However, the constitutional court declared the dissolution of parliament to be ineffective. A constitutional amendment that was subsequently carried out met with legal concerns from many parliamentarians. That is why the Fischer government stayed until the regular election date on 28/29. May 2010 in office.
He and his government of experts were sworn in on May 8, 2009. He also assumed the chairmanship of the European Council during the Czech Council Presidency , which lasted until June 30, 2009.
After the constitution of the newly elected Chamber of Deputies on June 25, 2010, Fischer resigned from the office of Prime Minister in accordance with the requirements of the constitution. He then was Vice President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development until mid-2012 .
On July 10, 2013, he was sworn in by President Miloš Zeman as Minister of Finance and first deputy to Prime Minister Jiří Rusnok . He held these functions until January 2014.
2013 presidential candidacy
Jan Fischer ran in the 2013 presidential election and was one of the favorites in the polls. With 16.35%, however, he only received the third-highest share of the vote after Miloš Zeman and Karel Schwarzenberg and was eliminated in the first ballot.
Individual evidence
- ↑ iDnes.cz: Manžel tak nevypadá, ale je vtipný, říká žena nového premiéra (Czech)
- ↑ Czech Prime Minister resigned . De.reuters.com. June 25, 2010. Retrieved June 26, 2010.
- ↑ volby.cz: Výsledek volby
Web links
- Fischer's curriculum vitae on the government website (Czech, English)
- Hans-Jörg Schmidt: “A statistician should manage EU business” , Frankfurter Rundschau , April 7, 2009.
Václav Klaus (1993–1997) | Josef Tošovský (1997–1998) | Miloš Zeman (1998–2002) | Vladimír Špidla (2002-2004) | Stanislav Gross (2004-2005) | Jiří Paroubek (2005–2006) | Mirek Topolánek (2006–2009) | Jan Fischer (2009-2010) | Petr Nečas (2010-2013) | Jiří Rusnok (2013–2014) | Bohuslav Sobotka (2014–2017) | Andrej Babiš (since 2017)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fischer, Jan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech statistician and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 2, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |