Vladimír Železný

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Vladimir Zelezny (Prague Wine Festival, 2010)

Vladimír Železný , pseudonym from before November 1989 Vladimír Silný, Jakub Stein , (born March 3, 1945 in Kuibyshev , Soviet Union ) is a Czech media entrepreneur and politician.

Life

His father was a member of the Czechoslovak units that fought against the German occupiers in Ukraine . In 1963 he graduated from high school and took the position of production assistant at Czech Television . A year later, Železný began studying social sciences at Charles University in Prague .

After completing his studies in 1968, he worked again in television, after the occupation of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact armies , he took an active part in broadcasting programs on illegal television. Shortly afterwards, he went to England and worked for the Associated Press . In 1969 he returned to Prague and wrote his doctoral thesis.

In the seventies and eighties he was not allowed to appear in public, became the editor of a technical magazine and wrote screenplays for popular science programs under the pseudonym Vladimír Silný . Under the name Jakub Stein he published articles in self-published magazines.

1990 began his active political activity as the press spokesman for the Citizens' Forum ( Občanské fórum ). In 1991 he became government spokesman and advisor to the then Prime Minister Petr Pithart .

From 1993 to 2003 he was general director of the television company CET 21, to which the television broadcaster TV Nova also belonged. Here he robbed his US partner Ronald Lauder of his stake, which led to the international arbitrage that was decided in favor of Lauder's CME . The damage - 353 million US dollars (about 10.5 billion CZK ) - is still borne by the Czech taxpayers today, because there are no laws in the Czech Republic that would make it possible to demand compensation from the polluter.

In 2002 he was elected Senator for the movement / party INDEPENDENT ( Nezávislí ) founded by him (in the Senate he was then a member of the Committee for European Integration and chairman of the communist group "Nezařazení" he founded), in 2004 as a MEP in the European Parliament ( elected there in 2005 as deputy chairman of the EU parliament for viticulture). With his last party, Independent Democrats ( Nezávislí democé ), he sought his re-election to the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Parliament (elections in June 2006 ).

His immunity as a Senator and later as a MEP was lifted by the Senate (2003) and the European Parliament (2005/06).

Memberships and offices

  • Franz Kafka Society (Společnost Franze Kafky) - founding member and vice-president
  • DUHA Foundation for the integration of people with mental problems - member of the Board of Directors
  • Foundation fond Galerie - Chairman of the Board of Directors
  • Weinbau Tanzberg - founding member
  • EU Regional Development Committee - Member
  • EU Committee on Agriculture and Village Development - Substitute Member
  • Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee - member
  • Delegation for relations with Israel - substitute member

Works

  • Tak pravil Vladimír Železný aneb Malý velký muž, Prague 1999

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Media, articles, case studies

personal data
SURNAME Železný, Vladimír
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zelezny, Vladimir; Silný, Vladimír; Stone, Jakub
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech politician, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Kuibyshev , Soviet Union