Vlastimil Tusar

Vlastimil Tusar


2nd Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia
In office 8 July 1919 – 15 September 1920
Preceded by	Karel Kramář
Succeeded by	Jan Černý
Member of the Austrian Imperial Council
In office 1911–1918
Member of the Czechoslovak National Assembly
In office 27 October 1918 – 1 March 1921
Personal details
Born	(1880-10-18)October 18, 1880 Prague, Austria-Hungary
Died	March 22, 1924 (aged 43) Berlin, Weimar Republic
Political party	Social Democratic Party
Occupation	Journalist
Religion	Roman Catholicism

Vlastimil Tusar (18 October 1880 Prague – 22 March 1924 Berlin) was a Czech journalist and political figure. He served as prime minister of Czechoslovakia from 1919 to 1920.

Tusar was born as the son of a civil servant he attended a gymnasium and an economical school in Prague. Between 1900 and 1903 he worked for a bank, in 1903 he became a journalist for various social democratic papers. In 1908 he became editor in chief of the weekly magazine "Rovnost" in Brno and change it into daily newspaper.

In 1911 he was elected Member of the Austrian Reichsrat (the parliament of the Austro-Hungary) for the constituency of Brno. At first he was pro-Austrian oriented, but later he changed his mind and in 1918 he played a vital role in the formation of Czechoslovakia as new state. On 27 October 1918 from Wien he informed Alois Rašín, that is best moment to declare independence of Czechoslovakia. Then he became a member of the new Czechoslovak parliament, but till 1919 he stayed in Wien as negotiator with new formed Republic of Austria, he negotiate mainly about bordering issues.

8 July 1919 he became prime minister of a new coalition government of Social Democrats and Agrarian party. After parliamentary elections in 1920 he became prime minister again. On 14 August the government resigned because of the rising activity of the communist wing in Social Democracy.

On 1 March 1921 he left his seat in parliament, having been made Czechoslovak ambassador in Berlin, where he died in 1924.

External links

(Czech) Biography
(Czech) Biography on Czech Government page

Preceded by Karel Kramář	Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia 1919–1920	Succeeded by Jan Černý

Prime Ministers of Czechoslovakia

First Czechoslovak Republic	Karel Kramář Vlastimil Tusar Jan Černý Edvard Beneš Antonín Švehla Jan Černý Antonín Švehla František Udržal Jan Malypetr Milan Hodža Jan Syrový

Second Czechoslovak Republic	Jan Syrový Rudolf Beran

Occupation	Government-in-exile: Jan Šrámek

Third Czechoslovak Republic	Zdeněk Fierlinger Klement Gottwald

Communist Era	Antonín Zápotocký Viliam Široký Jozef Lenárt Oldřich Černík Lubomír Štrougal Ladislav Adamec

Post–Communist Era	Marián Čalfa Jan Stráský

List of social democrats

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 72592827 GND: 133790649 NKC: jk01140478

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