Jan Stejskal (politician)

Jan Stejskal (born November 7, 1933 in Mokrosuky ; † July 12, 2013 ) was a Czechoslovak economist, party official and politician (minister).

Political career

Stejskal joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) as early as 1953 . After studying at the Prague School of Economics and the Prague University of Economicshe worked in the Czechoslovak State Bank (Státní banka československá) and also managed a branch in Cheb. After working at the International Bank for Economic Cooperation in Moscow from 1971 to 1975 and in the Central Committee of KSČ from 1975 to 1979, he returned to the State Bank and became one of its general directors, and from 1981 also chairman of the bank until 1988 In the 1980s Stejskal worked in various, in some cases important, departments of the party and the Central Committee, including the Control Commission, Commission for the National Economy, Committee for People's Controllers, and Planning Commission.

In October 1988 Stejskal became finance minister in the Ladislav Adamec government and remained so in the short-lived government of Marián Čalfa I (December 7-10 , 1989) after the so-called Velvet Revolution .

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• Životopisy ministrů (ministers' résumés ), server of the Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic, online at: Životopisy ministrů ( memento from September 6, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
• Short biographies of new members of the Adamec government, in: Rudé právo October 13, 1988, page 3, facsimile on: archiv.ucl.cas.cz / ...