Jiří Dienstbier (politician, 1969)

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Jiří Dienstbier (2015)

Jiří Dienstbier (born May 27, 1969 in Washington, DC ) is a Czech politician. From 2011 to 2013 he was vice-chairman of the Social Democratic Party (ČSSD) and stood as a candidate in the 2013 presidential election . Since 2011 he has been a member of the Senate of Parliament .

Career

Jiří Dienstbier Junior is the son of Jiří Dienstbier Senior and Zuzana Dienstbierová. He was born in Washington DC when his father was working there as a correspondent for the Czechoslovak Radio ; he is therefore also a citizen of the USA. After his parents returned to Czechoslovakia in 1969, they became involved in the dissident movement and were both among the first to sign the Charter 77. This also influenced the youth of Jiří Dienstbier Junior: when he was four years old, his father was sentenced to three years in prison condemned of oppositional activity; he himself was branded and arrested in April 1982 for alleged theft on the street, he was not allowed to pursue his wishes and not attend a language school or high school. Only later was he allowed to attend a middle school for mechanical engineering , where he passed his Matura in 1988 .

During the revolution around 1989 Dienstbier was one of the founders of the independent student movement STUHA , which was active against the communist regime.

In 1997, Dienstbier studying law at Prague's Charles University from. He has been working as a freelance lawyer since 1998 .

Political career

From 1990 to 1992 Jiří Dienstbier was a member of the Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia. Between 1994 and 1998, and 2006 to 2010 he was city representatives for the electoral district Prague 2 . In 1997 he joined the ČSSD.

From July 2010 he acted as shadow minister for justice . He was the candidate of the Social Democrats for the office of Lord Mayor of Prague in the local elections in October 2010, in which the ČSSD achieved its best result to date.

In March 2011, he was elected senator and thus a member of parliament in the supplementary elections in his father's constituency for constituency No. 30 Kladno . His mandate lasted until October 25, 2014. On March 18, 2011, he also became vice-chairman of the ČSSD. In May 2012 he was elected as a candidate of the ČSSD for the presidential election on January 12, 2013 . He reached fourth place with 16.12 percent and thus failed to make it into the runoff election.

Although Dienstbier was one of the most popular politicians in the country according to opinion polls, he was not confirmed in his position as deputy party chairman of the Social Democrats in March 2013, which he held from 2011.

Dienstbier was a member of the Bohuslav Sobotka government as chairman of the legislative council from January 2014 . He was appointed Minister for Human Rights and Equal Opportunities on January 29, 2014. In this role he was replaced by Jan Chvojka in December 2016 .

Trivia

Until he was 21 years old, the Washington-born service beer did not know that he was a US citizen. His parents kept this from him and only made hints. Only when he and other students with whom he wanted to take a language course applied for a visa at the embassy in Prague in 1990 was he informed of this - as a reason for rejecting the application.

Web links

Commons : Velvet Revolution  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Czech Republic introduces direct election of the president on Spiegel Online from February 9, 2012, accessed on February 20, 2012
  2. ↑ Jirí Dienstbier in Spiegel 3/2011 accessed on October 24, 2012
  3. ↑ a b Dientsbier: Thu 21 let jsem nevěděl, že jsem Američan , in: lidovky / Lidové noviny, online at: lidovky.cz/
  4. ^ Letter from Zuzana Dienstbierová to the Minister of the Interior, April 9, 1982, facsimile of the in INFOCH 4/1982 (VONS and Charter 77 circulars), online a. a. on: www.vons.cz/
  5. ↑ volby.cz: Výsledek volby
  6. ↑ Martina Schneibergová, Social Democratic Party Congress: Applause for Zeman, departure of service beer. , Report from Radio Prague of March 18, 2013, online at: www.radio.cz/de / ...
  7. ↑ Ministerské posty opustí Němeček a Dienstbier, oznámil Sobotka idnes.cz, 11 November 2016
personal data
SURNAME Service beer, Jiří
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech politician, member of the Chamber of Deputies
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC