Michal Chudík

Michal Chudík (born September 29, 1914 in Hámor , Austria-Hungary , † April 24, 2005 in Prague , Czech Republic ) was a Czechoslovak politician of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia ( Komunistická strana Československa ) .

Life

Chudík was initially considered a follower of Viliam Široký , who was also from Slovakia , and played a leading role in the political cleansing within the KSČ in Slovakia.

After the replacement of Široký as Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia on September 19, 1963 by Jozef Lenárt and the resulting influence due to his role in the Josef Stalin era of Czechoslovakia, he became the closest supporter of Antonín Novotný , who was elected First Secretary of the KSČ in 1953 Slovakia.

On September 23, 1963 he succeeded Lenárt as President of the National Council of Slovakia ( Slovenská národní rada ). He was also a member of the Central Committee (ZK) of Komunistická strana Československa (KSČ) and in March 1964 also became a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee.

He was confirmed as a member of the Politburo at the 13th Party Congress in June 1966.

In December 1967, shortly before the beginning of the Prague Spring , Michal Chudík was one of the supporters of the conservative First Secretary of the KSČ and President Antonín Novotný, while Novotný's liberal opponents, Alexander Dubčerník , Oldřich Černík , along with Bohuslav Laštovička , Otakar Šimůnek and Jozef Lenárt Drahomír Kolder , Jiří Hendrych and Jaromír Dolanský counted, with Kolder later being one of the strongest supporters of the crackdown on the Prague Spring and co-signing of the so-called letter of invitation in which leading Czechoslovak politicians asked the Soviet Union for help. A “stalemate” arose in the Politburo, especially since Lenárt and Chudík were against Novotný in an initial vote.

On March 14, 1968, he resigned from his post as President of the Slovak National Council, whereupon Ondrej Klokoč was his successor.

In the course of the Prague Spring he was also replaced as a member of the Politburo on April 5, 1968.

On December 1, 1976 he succeeded Stanislav Svoboda as ambassador to Cuba . He held this position until he was replaced by Miloš Vojta on April 19, 1979.

Web links

• Political Leaders: Czechoslovakia
• Entry about Michal Chudík on Literárne informačné centrum ( Slovak )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Prehlad predstavitelov národnej rady v rokoch 1848–2002 (PDF; 20 kB)
2. ↑ The New CPCS Presidium and Secretariat (June 7, 1966)  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Jaromír Navrátil (Ed.): The Prague Spring 1968: A National Security Archive Documents Reader (=  National security archive Cold War readers ). Central European University Press, Budapest 1998, ISBN 963-9116-15-7 , pp. 21 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
4. ↑ M. Mark Stolarik (ed.): The Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, 1968: Forty Years Later . Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Mundelein 2010, ISBN 978-0-86516-751-3 , pp. 35 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
5. ↑ Stefan Karner (Ed.): Prager Frühling: Articles (= Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on the Consequences of War Graz [ed.]: Publications of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on the Consequences of War: Special volume . No. 9 ). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, Weimar 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20207-1 , pp. 255, 258, 263, 265, 273, 1128, 1218 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
6. ↑ CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Sold Bride (DER SPIEGEL No. 12/1968)
7. ↑ Karen Dawisha: The Kremlin and the Prague Spring (= Federal government publication [Ed.]: International crisis behavior series . Band 4 ). University of California Press, Berkeley 1984, ISBN 0-520-04971-3 , pp. 21 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
8. ↑ Leadership and Government Changes (April 1968) ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.