Ján Langoš

Ján Langoš ( born August 2, 1946 in Banská Bystrica, Košice † 15 June 2006 ) was a Slovak politician and last interior minister of the state of Czechoslovakia.

Life

Degree in physics was in the eighties, one of the leading personalities of the Slovak dissident movement. He participated at that time in the activities of an underground university.

After the so-called Velvet Revolution in 1989 for the civil rights movement " Public Against Violence " (VPN ) he was born on June 27, 1990 the first Minister of the Interior of the former CSFR and at the same time the last of the common state Czechoslovakia in the government of Prime Minister Marián Čalfa. Here he was mainly attributable to the cleansing of the police force of Stasi cadres.

After the foundation of Slovakia on 1 January 1993 he was a member of the National Council and Founder and Chairman of the Conservative Party Democrats ( demokratická strana / DS).

After leaving active politics, he initiated the opening of the Slovak Stasi files, which was enforced in 2002 by the majority of the Slovak Parliament against the veto of then-President Rudolf Schuster. Then Langoš built on the " Office of the memory of the people " ( Ústav pamäti národa / UPN), which is comparable to the Birthler authority. The Office facilitated a review of all candidates for the taking place in June 2006 general election.

Until his death in a car accident not caused by him Langoš was Director of the " Office of the memory of the people."