Matúš Černák
Matúš Černák (born August 23, 1903 in Turčianske Teplice , † July 5, 1955 in Munich ) was a Slovak politician and diplomat.
life and work
Černák was born as the son of a cantor in Malà Vieska in what was then Hungary , the place was later incorporated into Turčianske Teplice . Černák attended elementary school there, and then from 1913 to 1917 a piaristic high school in Prievidza . He passed the Abitur in 1922 at a grammar school in Banska Bystrica . He then studied in Leipzig and Prague, where he graduated in 1928 as a high school teacher for philosophy, history and geography. He then taught in Trnava and Bratislava until 1938 .
As a student he became an enthusiastic supporter of Andrej Hlinka's national-Slovak movement . In his move, Černák became a student leader and head of the Hlinka Guard in Bratislava. In 1938 Černák joined Hlinka's People's Party . From 1938 to 1939 Černák was Minister of Education, only after the Munich Agreement in the autonomous Slovak state government in the short-lived Czecho-Slovak Republic , then with the independence of the Slovak state in the government of Jozef Tiso . From 1939 to 1944 he was the ambassador of the Slovak state in Berlin . After the end of World War II , he was captured by the Allies, tried in a court in Bratislava, and sentenced to three years in prison.
After his release from prison, he emigrated to West Germany at the end of 1948, where he lived in Munich from 1950. There he was politically and journalistic with other exiled Slovaks on the side of Karol Sidor . On July 5, 1955, Černák picked up a parcel addressed to him from a Munich post office . The package contained a bomb that exploded when opened. Černák and two other uninvolved postal customers died as a result of the explosion. The funeral took place on July 12th in Munich, 1991 the urn was reburied in a cemetery in Bratislava. The perpetrators were not identified.
In 1963, in memory of Černák, the Matúš Černák Institute was founded in Cologne, which published magazines and represented political issues for the Slovak community in exile. In the 1980s, the institute relocated to Munich.
Individual evidence
- ↑ entry " Černák, Matuš " in Munzinger Online
- ↑ Volkmar von Zühlsdorff: Who was the emigre leader Matuš Cernák? In: Die ZEIT of No. 28/1955 of July 14, 1955
- ↑ Assassinations: Promotion of Subculture In: Der Spiegel from February 1, 1993.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Černák, Matúš |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Slovak politician and diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 23, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Turčianske Teplice |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th July 1955 |
| Place of death | Munich |