Leopold Lér

Leopold Lér

Leopold Lér (born October 23, 1928 in Ostrava ; † April 20, 2013 ) was a Czechoslovak and Czech party functionary, economist and, as a politician, a multiple minister.

Political career

Leopold Lér's career concerned his career as an economist in various governments as well as his work in the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ), here then also his success as a member of parliament.

The engineer began as an economist in 1951 in the Ministry of Finance of Czechoslovakia, where he worked as Deputy Minister from 1962 to 1968. After the federalization of the country, he was Finance Minister of the Czech Socialist Republic from 1969 to 1973, and in 1973 he was appointed Minister of Finance of Czechoslovakia in the Governments Lubomír Štrougal II , Lubomír Štrougal III and Lubomír Štrougal IV , in which he worked until 1985 . Lér represented the need to strengthen the financial independence of companies and to loosen the rigorous directive influence on the national economic management.

In 1976 he was on the XV. Congress of the Communist Party KSČ elected as candidate of the Central Committee; the XVI. 1981 party congress confirmed his post.

As a candidate for KSČ, Lér ran for the Czech National Council in 1971 and was elected. In 1976 he was elected as a member of the federal House of Representatives, in 1981 he was confirmed and remained active as a member until 1986.

After 1997, Lér worked as a teacher at the private college banking institute Bankovní institut vysoká škola in Prague.

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• Životopisy ministrů. (CVs of ministers), server of the Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic, online at: Životopisy ministrů ( Memento from September 6, 2006 in the Internet Archive )

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1. ↑ The date of Lér's death has so far only been documented and found very poorly; information can be found in the Souborný katalog Akademie věd ČR (General Catalog of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic), online at: vufind.lib.cas.cz/