Rudolf Slánský

Rudolf Slansky ( born July 31, 1901 in Nezvěstice; † December 3, 1952 in Prague) was 1945-1951 General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSC ).

Life

Slánský grew up the son of a dealer in Pilsen. In 1921, a year after his graduation, he joined the Communist Party and was in fact from that time party functionary. In 1929 he became a member of the Central Committee and as a follower of Klement Gottwald, who had taken power in the party at this time, even the Politburo. From 1935 to 1938 he was a Member of Parliament in 1938, he went to Moscow, where he was a member of the international leadership of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, in this capacity, he took part in 1944 also at the Slovak National Uprising.

In 1945 he returned to Czechoslovakia and became General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in the same year. In this role, he was instrumental in the fight against the democratic parties and the power of the Communists in February 1948 and is responsible for keeping track of many opponents of the Communist Party. On September 8, 1951, he was dismissed as Secretary General and was awarded the post of Deputy Prime Minister. On November 23, 1951, he was arrested as part of the Field affair and accused of treason. The motivation should both be seen in the fact that Gottwald tried to get rid of a potential rival, also played an inspired by the Soviet model of that time anti-Semitism an important role. Slansky was like the majority of his co-defendants Jewish origin. In a show trial in November 1952, he was sentenced to death as an alleged " leader of a subversive conspiracy center " and, together with ten other co-defendants executed on December 3, 1952 by hanging. Their bodies were burned. Employee of the State Security sprinkled the ashes on a field outside of Prague.

On September 8, 1963 Slansky was legally rehabilitated, along with Mordechai Oren, a member of the Israeli Mapam, who had been pardoned after expiation of three years of a ten -year prison term and repatriated to Israel. In 1968 in the wake of the Prague Spring and his rehabilitation by the party.

Accused and sentenced to death in Slánský process ( 20 to 27 November 1952)

  • Vladimír Clementi
  • Otto Fischl
  • Josef Frank
  • Ludvik Frejka alias Ludwig friend
  • Bedřich Geminder
  • Rudolf Margolius
  • Bedřich Reicin
  • Hanus Lomsky
  • Otto Katz aka André Simone
  • Rudolf Slansky
  • Otto Sling
  • Karel Šváb
Plzeň 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état High treason Josef Frank (politician) Artur London Integrated Authority File Kladno
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