Antonín Janoušek

Antonín Janoušek

Antonín Janoušek (22 August 1877, Nymburk – 30 March 1941) was a Czech journalist and communist.

Originally an engine fitter, in 1895, Janoušek became a member of the social democratic party. In 1906, he became a workers journalists and a functionary of workers associations in Austria-Hungary.

In 1919, he led the Czech and Slovak section at the central committee of the Hungarian Communist Party. During the period 20 June - 7 July 1919, he was the “chairman of the revolutionary committee” (predseda revolučného výboru) of the short-lived Slovak Soviet Republic. In 1920 he was sentenced by the Horthy regime in Hungary, then delivered to Czechoslovak authorities. In 1922, he moved to Soviet Russia, where he became a functionary of the International Workers Aid Council. He lived in Cheboksary, Chuvashia. He died "in bed" as reported by the historian V. Nálevka.^[1]

References

Příruční slovník naučný 1962 (encyclopedia by Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences): volume II, page 338.

↑ Arnošt Kolman: Memories (abridged), p. 2

Prime Ministers of Slovakia

First Slovak Republic	Jozef Tiso (1939) Vojtech Tuka (1939–1944) Štefan Tiso (1944–1945)

Slovak Socialist Republic	Peter Colotka (1969-1988) Ivan Knotek (1988-1989) Pavol Hrivnák (1989) Milan Čič (1989–1990) Vladimír Mečiar (1990–1991) Ján Čarnogurský (1991–1992) Vladimír Mečiar (1992)

Slovak Republic	Vladimír Mečiar (1993–1994) Jozef Moravčík (1994) Vladimír Mečiar (1994–1998) Mikuláš Dzurinda (1998–2006) Robert Fico (2006–2010) Iveta Radičová (2010–2012) Robert Fico (2012–present)

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