ÄŒestmÃr CÃsaÅ™
Čestmír Císař ( born January 2, 1920 in Hostomitz, † March 24, 2013 in Prague ) was a Czechoslovak politician.
Life
Císař first attended from 1931 to 1936 the high school in Dux, studied from 1936 to 1939 in Dijon, after the war worked as a clerk in Prague's insurance and then graduated from the Philosophical Institute of the Charles University, Prague.
In 1945 he joined the Communist Party in, where he held until 1952 the place of an employee of the Central Committee and saw his main task is to strengthen the position of the party. From 1952 to 1957 he was involved as secretary of the party in western Bohemia in the brutal crackdown on strikes against the currency reform of 1953.
In 1957, he was first appointed as a representative of the chief editor of the party newspaper Pravo Rudé to Prague. In 1961 he took over until 1963, the chief editor of the monthly magazine Nová mysl. There followed for half a year as secretary of the Central Committee, before being appointed in 1963 as Minister of Education. Since he represented liberal views, he was transferred in 1965 as ambassador to Bucharest.
During the Prague Spring Císař was ordered back to the Czech Republic, was appointed in April 1968 to the Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Education, Science and Culture and elected in April as chairman of the Czech National Council. Following the resignation of President Antonín Novotný, he applied unsuccessfully for the office of president. After the occupation of the country in August 1968, he resigned from his position.
In 1969 he was deposed and excluded a year later from the party. The subsequent twelve years of his working life he worked in the State Institute of Culture Care.
In the late 1980s he became active again and founded the club for social reconstruction Obroda. He wanted to occupy a position in the new government together with Vojtěch Mencl after the Velvet Revolution, but failed because of the opposition of the Civic Forum.
Following the resignation of, Gustav Husak, he applied again to the office of president, but then abandoned in favor of Václav Havel. His resignation in 1991 was rewarded by the post of ambassador to the Euro Europe and Special Adviser to the Foreign Minister Jiří service beer. Under pressure from the people he had to give back the items.
Works
As a publicist Císař published technical papers on art.
Memoirs
- Človek a policy, Kniha vzpomínek a úvah (1998)