List of Presidents of Czechoslovakia
This list gives an overview of all presidents of Czechoslovakia from the beginning of the Czechoslovak Republic in 1918 until the dissolution of the state on December 31, 1992.
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President of Czechoslovakia 1918–1938 |
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Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk | November 14, 1918 | December 14, 1935 | Re-election on May 27, 1920, May 27, 1927 and May 24, 1934; resigned | |
Edvard Beneš | December 18, 1935 | October 5, 1938 | Resigned under pressure from the German Reich and in exile from October 22nd | |
President of Czecho-Slovakia 1938–1939 |
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Emil Hacha | November 30, 1938 | March 15, 1939 | ||
President of the Reich Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia , President of the Slovak Republic and President-in-Exile of Czechoslovakia 1939–1945 |
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Emil Hacha | March 16, 1939 | May 9, 1945 | President of the Reich Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia | |
Jozef Tiso | October 26, 1939 | April 4, 1945 | President of the Slovak Republic | |
Edvard Beneš | July 21, 1940 | October 28, 1945 | Exiled President of Czechoslovakia in London | |
President of Czechoslovakia 1945–1992 |
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Edvard Beneš | October 28, 1945 | June 7, 1948 | re-elected June 19, 1946; resigned | |
Klement Gottwald | June 14, 1948 | March 14, 1953 | died in office | |
Antonín Zápotocký | March 21, 1953 | November 13, 1957 | died in office | |
Antonín Novotný | November 19, 1957 | March 22, 1968 | re-elected on November 12, 1964; resigned | |
Ludvík Svoboda | March 30, 1968 | May 29, 1975 | Re-elected March 22, 1973; voted out | |
Gustáv Husák | May 29, 1975 | December 10, 1989 | re-elected May 22, 1980 and May 23, 1985; resigned | |
Vaclav Havel | December 29, 1989 | July 20, 1992 | resigned because of the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, after January 26, 1993 President of the Czech Republic elected |
See also
- List of Prime Ministers of Czechoslovakia
- List of Presidents of the Czech Republic
- List of Presidents of Slovakia
- List of Bohemian rulers
- List of Moravian rulers
Individual evidence
- ↑ The state was called differently at the time, including the Third Czechoslovak Republic (1945–1948), Czechoslovak Republic (1948–1960) and the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic (1990–1992). See also the country name of Czechoslovakia .