Jan Šrámek

January Sramek ( born August 12, 1870 in Grygov, † April 22, 1956 in Prague) was a Czech Roman Catholic priest and Czechoslovak politician. He was active in many governments from 1918 to 1948.

Political career

Sramek studied theology in Olomouc and then worked as a minister and teacher of Christian theology in Moravia. Influenced by the encyclical Rerum Novarum of Pope Leo XIII. he organized in their minds a Christian social political movement. In 1894 he was elected chairman of the Moravian- slesischen Christian- Social Party, from 1906 to 1918 he was a member of the Moravian Landtag and from 1907 to 1918 member of the Imperial Council in Vienna.

After the establishment of Czechoslovakia in 1918 he tried to consolidate the Catholic forces. In January 1919, he was instrumental in the founding of the Czechoslovak People's Party ( CSL ), in which most of the Catholic currents of the country united. Sramek was their long -time chairman. He was also a deputy of the National Assembly (1920-1939) and Minister in all Czechoslovak governments in the years from 1921 until 1938.

After the German occupation of the country as a result of the Munich Agreement, he was a strong advocate of resistance. He went abroad, where she organized the Czechoslovak movement: In October 1939, he was appointed deputy chairman of the Czechoslovak National Committee in Paris from 1940 to 1945 he was Minister of the Czechoslovak government in exile in London.

After 1945 he was deputy prime minister in the governments Fierlinger I and Fierlinger II and also in the government Klement Gottwald I. After the Communist takeover in February 1948, he resigned in March 1948, he was the attempt to leave the country illegally arrested. After a general amnesty of Klement Gottwald Sramek had the choice of where he wanted to spend a house arrest until the end of life. He spent these years in a monastery near Sisters in Brno.

Swell

• Zakázaný document. Zpráva komise UV KSČ o Politických procesech a rehabilitacích v Československu 1949-68 ( Forbidden document. Commission Report of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia on the political processes and rehabilitation in Czechoslovakia 1949-68 ), Europe - Verlag, Wien, 1970 ( Czech edition ) Introduction and Conclusions by Jiří Pelikan
• Milan Churan a kolektiv, Kdo byl v kdo našich dějinách ve 20 století ( Who was who in our history of the 20th century ), Libri, Prague 1998, Parts 1 and 2, ISBN 80-85983-44-3 and ISBN 80 - 85983-64-8, online at: www.libri.cz
• January Sramek, short biography of the Czech Government, online at: www.vlada.cz / .. / jan- Sramek, Czech.