Martin Sokol

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Martin Sokol (1939)

Martin Sokol (born November 9, 1901 in Medzibrod , † December 16, 1957 in Banská Bystrica ) was a Slovak and Czechoslovak politician and lawyer . In March 1939 he was briefly Minister of the Interior of the autonomous Slovakia within the Czecho-Slovak Republic . After the proclamation of the Slovak State , he became President of Parliament .

Life

Sokol attended high school in Banská Bystrica and studied from 1922 at the Faculty of Law of the Comenius University in Bratislava , where he obtained the title of Doctor of Law in 1927 .

From 1927 to 1929 he was Central Secretary and from 1929 to 1933 General Secretary of the Slovak People's Party . Together with Jozef Tiso and Karol Sidor, he took part in drafting the laws on the autonomy of Slovakia, which the Czechoslovak Prime Minister Jan Syrový passed on October 8, 1938. From 1938 Martin Sokol was chairman of the autonomous Slovak parliament . On March 11, 1939, President Emil Hácha appointed a new Slovak government headed by Karol Sidor. Sokol became Minister of the Interior in Sidor's cabinet. After the establishment of the Slovak state, Sokol became chairman of the Slovak parliament and held this position until the end of the state. In 1940 he became a member of the State Council of the Slovak Republic.

Sokol is one of those Slovak politicians who tried in the First Slovak Republic to help racially and politically persecuted persons of the People's Party regime to save them from possible deportation to the German Reich.

In 1945 he was deported to the Soviet Union , from where he was extradited to the restored Czechoslovakia in 1947. The Czechoslovak People's Court sentenced Sokol to five years in prison, but released him in 1949. After 1949 he worked for various companies and worked with representatives of the bourgeois resistance against the communists. He died on December 16, 1957 in Banská Bystrica and was buried in Medzibrod.

literature

  • I. Kružliak: Sokol, Martin , in: Biographical Lexicon for the History of Southeast Europe . Vol. 4. Munich 1981, p. 156

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Ames, Jörg K. Hoensch : Documents on the autonomy policy of the Slovak People's Party Hlinkas . Oldenbourg, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-486-51071-1 , p. 237
  2. ↑ Karol Sidor, by Róbert Schmidt, accessed on June 15, 2011 (Slovak)
personal data
SURNAME Sokol, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovak politician and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Medzibrod
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1957
Place of death Banská Bystrica