Martin Vaculík (politician)

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Martin Vaculík (1968)

Martin Vaculík (born May 3, 1922 in Mutěnice , Okres Hodonín , † July 16, 2001 ) was a Czechoslovak politician of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia KSČ ( Komunistická strana Československa ) .

Life

Vaculík began vocational training as a lathe operator after attending school and between 1941 and 1945 attended the Vsetín Higher Technical School . In 1945 he became a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia KSČ ( Komunistická strana Československa ) and between 1947 and 1951 was the first organizational secretary in the city party committee of Vsetín and then from 1950 to 1956 a member of the central committee (ZK) of the KSČ. After studying between 1956 and 1958 at the Central Party School of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) in Moscow , he served as secretary for ideology of the Regional Party Committee of South Moravia between March 1960 and November 1962 . He earned a doctorate in social and political science (rerum socialium doctor) . On June 12, 1960 he also became a member of the National Assembly of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (Národní shromáždění republiky socialistické Československé) and belonged to it until December 31, 1968. During his membership in parliament he was a member of the Planning and Budget Committee between 1960 and 1964 and most recently a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee from 1964 to 1968.

Tombstone in the cemetery of the Trinity Church in Mělník

On the XII. At the party congress (December 4-8, 1962) he became a member of the KSČ Central Committee for the first time. In September 1963, he also became a candidate for the Presidium of the Central Committee, the party's top management body. In these functions he was also on the XIII. KSČ party congress (May 31 - June 4, 1966) as well as a member of the Central Committee Secretariat. In the course of the Prague Spring he appeared on Czechoslovak Radio in February 1968 and promoted the vision of democratization and liberalization of the new First Secretary of Alexander Dubček . At a plenum of the Central Committee on April 4, 1968, he was confirmed as a candidate for the Presidium, but lost his position as a member of the Central Committee Secretariat. In June 1968 he finally lost his position as a candidate for the Presidium of the Central Committee after he was the only Central Committee member alongside Oldřich Starý , the rector of Charles University , to sign the “ Manifesto of 2000 Words ” ( “ Dva tisíce slov”) .

On January 1, 1969, he was at least a member of the newly created Federation Assembly (Federální shromáždění) and belonged to the Chamber of the People (Sněmovna národů) in its first term until his resignation in December 1969. After the invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and the suppression of the Prague Spring , he was “released” from his position as a member of the Central Committee on September 26, 1969 and withdrew from political life.

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personal data
SURNAME Vaculík, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Mutěnice , Okres Hodonín
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 2001