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
image	Surname	from	to	comment
	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
	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
	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
image	Surname	from	to	comment
	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