Oldřich Černík

Oldrich Černík ( born October 27, 1921 in Ostrava Moravské, † 19 October 1994 in Prague ) was a Czechoslovak politician of the Communist Party (CCP).

Life

Černík, who joined shortly after the Second World War, the KSČ, was elected in 1956 as a member of the Central Committee ( CC) of the Communist Party. He gained a reputation as a capable technocrat and was founded in 1960 after the renaming of the Czechoslovak Republic in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic ( Československé socialistická republika, Czechoslovakia ) was appointed Minister of Fuel in the government of Viliam Široký. In this capacity, he represented amongst other the view of a necessary decentralization of the planned economy and contributed owned by the driving forces of internal reform. In 1966 he was elected member of the Presidium of the CCP.

After the start of the Prague Spring, he was appointed Prime Minister on April 8, 1968 by the First Secretary of the Communist Party, Alexander Dubček, as successor by Jozef Lenárt and led his first government. In this position, he was anxious to represent the party center for reconciliation between the different camps of the party. After the invasion of the Soviet army organizations in August 1968 on the suppression of the Prague Spring, he was captured with a number of other politicians and brought into the USSR. After his return he tried his balancing policy style resume in which he asked his countrymen to cooperation and the unity of the Czechoslovak public with the USSR supported, on the other hand continue to promised economic reforms. At the same time, he distanced himself from the "mistakes " that have committed it, and others. Despite this reversal of his views, his third government was replaced on 28 January 1970 by Lubomir Strougal and he was expelled in late 1970 and from the KSČ.

His efforts continue after the collapse of the communist regime in 1989, his political career was, however, unsuccessful.