Karel Urbánek (politician)

Karel Urbánek (born March 22, 1941 in Bojkovice , Uherské Hradiště district ) is a former communist Czechoslovak politician.

origin

After studying at the Railway College, Urbánek worked as a station master and inspector from 1962 to 1973.

Political activities and advancement within the party

Since 1973 he worked as a full-time functionary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KPTsch) in various party functions. Since 1974 he has been active in the South Moravian Regional Committee of the (CPC), later (1982) he was elected one of the secretaries of the Brno City Committee. In 1984 he became the first secretary of the Brno City Committee of the CPC, in 1986 a member of the Central Committee (ZK) and in 1988 a member of the Presidium of the CPC Central Committee.

At the head of the party

After the fall of Miloš Jakeš in the course of the Velvet Revolution , he was elected General Secretary of the Presidium of the CPC on November 24, 1989. However, he only held this office until December 21, 1989, when the office of general secretary was deleted in the course of a party reform in favor of the office of "party chairman". As such, the former Prime Minister Ladislav Adamec was his successor at the head of the party, after which he worked briefly in the party's control commission.

In July 1990 he retired from political life, but remained a member of the CPC and, to this day, of the Communist Party of the Czech Republic, founded in 1993 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Karel Janiš: Blahopřání. (pdf; 2.2 MB) In: Echo - Brněnský Levicový Občasník. March 10, 2016, p. 12 , accessed on July 15, 2020 (Czech, report in the newspaper of KSČM Brno on Urbánek's 75th birthday).