Miroslav Tuček

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Miroslav Tuček (* 1925 in Prague ; † January 9, 2004 in Zurich ) was a Czechoslovak-Swiss lawyer, diplomat, politician in exile and archive director.

Life

Tuček's youth was shaped by the anti-fascist resistance in Prague. In 1945 he began studying law at the Charles University in Prague , which he completed with a doctorate in 1948 . In 1947 Tuček was general secretary of the first World Festival of Youth and Students , which took place in Prague in memory of the anti-Nazi youth demonstrations of 1939 and was attended by 17,000 people from 71 countries. After graduating, Tuček entered the diplomatic service. In the following years he was the legal attaché of the Czechoslovak legation in Bern and vice-consul in Zurich. At the time of the Slansky trial in the early 1950s, he publicly distanced himself from the communist regime and received political asylum in Switzerland.

In the 1950s and 1960s Tuček worked in Switzerland as a journalist, but also in various craft professions. In 1967 he became a research assistant at the Swiss Social Archives . From 1968 to 1987 he was head of this institution. In 1979 the Swiss Federal Councilor appointed Tuček as President of the newly created Federal Expert Commission for Social Science Documentation.

From 1971 Tuček was secretary of the Social Democratic Party of Czechoslovakia in exile .

Fonts (selection)

  • Miroslav Tucek: Fifty Years of Soviet Russia: The Goals of the Russian Revolution , in: Der Neue Bund 33/4 (1967).
  • Fritz N. Platten, Miroslav Tucek: The Swiss Social Archives. Swiss Social Archives, Zurich 1971.
  • Miroslav Tucek: History of the Swiss Labor Movement (in documents from the Zurich libraries): Catalog for the exhibition as part of the Unesco campaign “Year of the Book”. Zurich 1972.

literature

  • Christian Koller : Library history as histoire croisée : The Swiss Social Archives and the Phenomenon of Exile, in: Rafael Ball / Stefan Wiederkehr (eds.): Networked Knowledge - Online - The Library as a Management Task . De Gruyter, Berlin 2015. pp. 365–392.
  • Anita Ulrich: On the death of Miroslav Tucek, in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , January 15, 2004. [1]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the death of Miroslav Tucek. In: nzz.ch. January 14, 2004, accessed October 14, 2018 .
  2. ↑ http://www.bild-video-ton.ch/Stock/objekt/Sozarch_F_Fb-0026-47
  3. ↑ http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2022037/11088_5275C1CD_3F7D_4DB1_8273_734D072D0F77.html
personal data
SURNAME Tuček, Miroslav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak-Swiss lawyer, diplomat, politician in exile and archive director
DATE OF BIRTH 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 2004
Place of death Zurich