Jiří Hendrych

Jiří Hendrych (born December 28, 1913 in Lom u Mostu ; † May 16, 1979 in Prague ) was a Czechoslovak politician of the Komunistická strana Československa (KSČ, Communist Party of Czechoslovakia CPC), member of the Central Committee of the CPTsch, member of the National Assembly of Czechoslovakia , the National Assembly of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic as well as one of the most influential communist functionaries of the Antonín Novotný era and his mainstay.

Life

Hendrych joined the Československý Komsomol in 1931 , the Czechoslovak section of the Soviet communist youth movement Komsomol and began studying law at Charles University after graduating from school , from which he was de-registered due to his political activities. In 1934 he became a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia KSČ ( Komunistická strana Československa ) and was active as a party functionary in Kladno from the end of the 1930s , where he was last member of the illegal regional party committee from 1939 to 1941. At the same time he was involved in the resistance movement against the German occupying power in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia during World War II . He was arrested by the Secret State Police at the end of August 1941 for his activities and was imprisoned in Mauthausen concentration camp until the end of the war .

At the 8th Congress of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia KSČ (March 28–31, 1946) Hendrych was elected a member of the Central Committee (ZK) for the first time and was a member of this body until 1968. On May 30, 1948 he also became a member of the National Assembly of the Czechoslovak Republic (Národní shromáždění republiky Československé) and from 1960 of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (Národní shromáždění republiky socialistické Československé) and belonged to it until December 31, 1968. At a plenum of the Central Committee in January 1951 he was appointed a member of the organizational secretariat of the Central Committee of KSČ, to which he belonged until February 1952. At the 10th Party Congress (June 11-15, 1954) he was not only confirmed as a member of the Central Committee, but also a member of the Secretariat and Secretary of the Central Committee.

On the following XI. At the party congress (June 18-21, 1958), Hendrych became a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee for the first time and thus the highest body of the KSČ. From this point on, he was the second highest position in the Central Committee secretariat after then General Secretary Antonín Novotný . On the XII. At the party congress (December 4-8, 1962) he was confirmed as a member of the Presidium of the Central Committee, which emerged from the previous Politburo, and was confirmed as Central Committee Secretary. In these functions he was also on the XIII. KSČ party conference (May 31 - June 4, 1966) confirmed. After Novotný had been replaced as first secretary of the Central Committee by Alexander Dubček at the Central Committee plenum on January 5, 1968 , he lost his functions as a member of the Politburo and as a member of the Politburo in the course of the Prague Spring at another plenary session of the Central Committee on April 4, 1968 Central Committee Secretary. On January 1, 1969, Hendrych was at least a member of the newly created Federation Assembly (Federální shromáždění) and belonged to the parliament of Czechoslovakia in its first electoral term until November 25, 1971.

For his services he was awarded the Order of the Republic and the Klement Gottwald Order, among others .

Individual evidence

↑ Short CV in: Potlačená zpráva. Zpráva komise ÚV KSČ o politických procesech a rehabilitacích v Československu 1949-68 , ed. by Jiří Pelikán, Europa-Verlag, Vienna 1970, pp. 289f.

Web links

Literature and other media by and about Jiří Hendrych in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic
Entry on Parliament's homepage
Entry (functionary of the KSČ)

personal data
SURNAME	Hendrych, Jiří
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Czechoslovak politician
DATE OF BIRTH	December 28, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lom u Mostu
DATE OF DEATH	May 16, 1979
Place of death	Prague

[zprava-1] Short CV in: Potlačená zpráva. Zpráva komise ÚV KSČ o politických procesech a rehabilitacích v Československu 1949-68 , ed. by Jiří Pelikán, Europa-Verlag, Vienna 1970, pp. 289f.