Zdeněk Mlynář (politician)
Zdeněk Mlynář (born June 22, 1930 in Vysoké Mýto ; † April 15, 1997 in Vienna ) was a Czech politician and political scientist . He was one of the main actors in the Prague Spring and the author of the political part of the KSČ's program of action of April 5, 1968.
Life
Mlynář was the son of an officer. In 1946 he became a member of KSČ. Originally he wanted to become an entomologist, but then studied law at Lomonossow University in Moscow from 1951 to 1955 . In 1955 he worked as an employee of the General Prosecutor's Office in Prague. In 1956 he moved to the Institute for State and Law at the Academy of Sciences (ČSAV).
In March 1964 Mlynář became secretary of the Legal Commission at the Central Committee of the KSČ. In April 1968, he also took over its management as Central Committee secretary. In these functions he became one of the main actors in the Prague Spring. He was the author of the political part of the KSČ's action program of April 5, 1968. He was one of the closest advisers to Alexander Dubček , for whom he also wrote speeches.
After the occupation of the country by Warsaw Pact troops, Mlynář took part in the negotiations in Moscow and signed the Moscow Protocol . He resigned from all offices in November 1968 in protest against developments after August 1968 and against the troop stationing agreement. In 1970 he was expelled from the KSČ. Until 1977 Mlynář worked in the entomological department of the National Museum .
Mlynář was one of the initiators and co-authors of Charter 77 . In the course of the persecution of the Charter signatories by the State Security (StB) he was forced into emigration .
In 1978 , while in exile in Austria, Mlynář published the book Nachtfrost , in which he explains the background, the rise and fall of the Prague Spring.
Mlynář initially worked as a research assistant at the International Institute for Systems Analysis in Laxenburg near Vienna. From about 1982 to 1989 Mlynar directed a research project "Crises in Soviet-Type Systems" which resulted in a number of publications. From 1989 until his death he taught as a professor at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Innsbruck . He died of lung cancer on April 15, 1997 at the age of 66 in Vienna.
Private
During his studies in Moscow, Mlynář lived in the dormitory in the same room with Mikhail Gorbachev , with whom he was a friend until the end.
From his first marriage to Rita Klímová, b. Budínová have a daughter and a son. In his second marriage, Mlynář was married to the Czech philosopher and sociologist Irena Dubská .
Fonts
- Night frost: experiences on the way from real to human socialism. European Publishing House , Cologne, Frankfurt am Main 1978. (Czech: Mráz přichází z kremlu. )
- Normalization in Czechoslovakia after 1968 , in: Wlodzimierz Brus , Pierre Kende , Zdenek Mlynar: "Normalization Processes " in Soviet Central Europe , Research Project Crises in Soviet-Type Systems, Headed by Zdenek Mlynar with Scientific Advisory Board, Study No. 1, October 1982 (no location)
literature
- Zdenek Mlynář , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 27/1997 from June 23, 1997, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
- Alessandro Catalano: Zdeněk Mlynář a hledání socialistické opozice. Od aktivní politiky přes disent až k ediční činnosti v exilu . In: Soudobé dějiny, 2013, issue 3, pp. 277–344 (Czech).
Web links
- Literature by and about Zdeněk Mlynář in the catalog of the German National Library
- Obituary by Anton Pelinka ( Memento from February 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ see several brochures at http://d-nb.info/958117268
- ↑ no holdings in the German National Library, but in Worldcat see [1]
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mlynář, Zdeněk |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech politician and political scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 22, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vysoké Mýto |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 15, 1997 |
| Place of death | Vienna |