Václav Vacek

Václav Vacek
Mayor of Prague
In office
2 May 1945  August 1945
Preceded by Alois Říha
Succeeded by Petr Zenkl
Mayor of Prague
In office
1 July 1946  December 1954
Preceded by Petr Zenkl
Succeeded by Adolf Svoboda
Personal details
Born (1877-09-11)11 September 1877
Libochovice, Austria-Hungary
(now Czech Republic)
Died 18 January 1960(1960-01-18) (aged 82)
Prague, Czechoslovakia
(now Czech Republic)
Political party ČSSDSD (before 1921)
KSČ (1921-1960)
Alma mater Charles University in Prague

Václav Vacek (11 September 1877  18 January 1960) was a Czech writer, and a communist politician. He served as a Senator in the National Assembly of Czechoslovakia and after the Prague Uprising as the Mayor of Prague. He was also a founding member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia after the schism in Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers' Party in 1921.[1]

Other

The Prague Metro station Roztyly was named after him until the revolution in 1989.

References

  1. "JUDr. Václav Vacek". Hlavní město Praha. Retrieved 2016-04-04.


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