Karel Kramář government

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The Karel Kramář government in Czechoslovakia , led by Prime Minister Karel Kramář , was in office from November 14, 1918 to July 8, 1919. It followed the provisional Czech-Slovak government chaired by Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and was replaced by the Vlastimil government Tusar I .

Government formation, program

The Karel Kramář government was - apart from the Provisional Government of Masaryk - the first regular government of the new state of Czechoslovakia, established in 1918, and at the same time the first government of the so - called All - National Coalition , which provided the governments from 1918 to 1926 . The national democrat Karel Kramář was elected Prime Minister, who campaigned for the founding of Czechoslovakia and played a leading role in the movement. The government was established on the basis of the new constitution (Law No. 37/1918 Coll.) Of November 13, 1918. The main tasks of the government consisted in the first steps to stabilize the new state in all respects, especially then, as in the Government declaration of January 9, 1919 emphasized the need to build a new self-government.

After the first democratic local elections in June 1919, when the party of Kramář was defeated, the government resigned and was replaced by the government Vlastimil Tusar I .

Government composition

  • Karel Kramář (ČsND), Prime Minister (November 14, 1918 - July 8, 1919)
  • Edvard Beneš (independent), Foreign Minister (November 14, 1918 - July 8, 1919)
  • Antonín Švehla (RSZML), Minister of the Interior (November 14, 1918 - July 8, 1919)
  • Alois Rašín (ČsND), Minister of Finance (November 14, 1918 - July 8, 1919)
  • Gustav Habrman (ČSDSD), Minister of Education (November 14, 1918 - July 8, 1919)
  • Václav Klofáč (ČsNS), Minister of Defense (November 14, 1918 - July 8, 1919)
  • František Soukup (ČSDSD), Minister of Justice (November 14, 1918 - July 8, 1919)
  • Adolf Stránský (ČsND), Minister of Commerce (November 14, 1918 - July 8, 1919)
  • Isidor Bogdan Zahradník (RSZML), Minister of Railways (November 14, 1918 - July 8, 1919)
  • František Staněk (RSZML), Minister for Public Works (November 14, 1918 - July 8, 1919)
  • Karel Prášek (RSZML), Minister of Agriculture (November 14, 1918 - July 8, 1919)
  • Lev Winter (ČSDSD), Minister for Social Affairs (November 14, 1918 - July 8, 1919)
  • Vavro Šrobár (independent), Minister of Health (November 14, 1918 - July 8, 1919) and Minister for the Administration of Slovakia (November 14, 1918 - July 8, 1919)
  • Jiří Stříbrný (ČsNS), Minister of Post and Telegraph (November 14, 1918 - July 8, 1919)
  • Bohuslav Vrbenský (ČsNS), Minister of Food (November 14, 1918 - July 8, 1919)
  • Milan Rastislav Štefánik (independent), Minister for Military Affairs (November 14, 1918 - May 4, 1919)
  • Mořic Hruban (ČSL), Minister without a mandate (November 14, 1918 - July 8, 1919)

Party affiliation

The following parties of the national coalition were represented in the government:

In the period 1918/1919 there were numerous renaming of almost all parties.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Programové prohlášení vlády, online at www.vlada.cz/ (PDF file; 26 kB), also Programové prohlášení vlády Karla Kramáře on the Czech Wikisource (Wikizdroje), both in Czech

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  • www.vlada.cz / ... , website of the government of the Czech Republic, overview of the governments since 1918, Czech, accessed on January 20, 2013
  • www.vlada.cz/.../historie , website of the Government of the Czech Republic, History of the Office of the Government, Czech, accessed January 20, 2013

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