Luboš Dobrovský
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Luboš Dobrovský | |
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Minister of Defence | |
In office 18 October 1990 – 2 July 1992 | |
Prime Minister | Marián Čalfa |
Preceded by | Miroslav Vacek |
Succeeded by | Imrich Andrejčák |
Czech Republic Ambassador to Russia | |
In office 1996–2000 | |
President | Václav Havel |
Preceded by | Rudolf Slánský Jr. |
Succeeded by | Jaroslav Bašta |
Personal details | |
Born | Kolín, Czechoslovakia | 3 February 1932
Luboš Dobrovský (born Luboš Hamerschlag, 3 February 1932) is a Czech journalist and politician of Jewish origin,[1] former Czechoslovak Minister of Defence.
Dobrovský was member of Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and journalist of the Czechoslovak Radio between 1959 and 1968.[2] He signed Charta 77 in the 1970s and served as a spokesman of the Civic Forum in 1989. Between October 1990 and June 1992 he was the Czechoslovak minister of defence. Later served as director of the Office of the Czech President Václav Havel. Between 1996 and 2000 he was the Czech Ambassador in Moscow.[3]
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