Jan Černý

Jan Černý
Jan Černý
Born	4 March 1874 ; Uherský Ostroh
Died	10 April 1959 (aged 85); Uherský Ostroh
Occupation	Politician
Children	Zdenek Černý
Awards	Honorary citizenship of Třebíč (1934); Honorary citizenship of Moravské Budějovice (1934) ;
Position held	Ministry of the Interior (1920–1922), Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia (1920–1921)

Jan Černý (4 March 1874 in Uherský Ostroh, Moravia, Austria-Hungary – 10 April 1959 in Uherský Ostroh, Czechoslovakia) was a Czechoslovak civil servant and politician. He was the prime minister of Czechoslovakia from 1920 to 1921^[1] and in 1926. He also served as the provincial president (governor) of Moravia in 1918–1920, 1921–1928 and 1929–1939.

Jan Černý was born into a furriers family in the small town of Uherský Ostroh, in the east of Moravia (Moravian Slovakia). He attended the gymnasium (a grammar school) in Uherské Hradiště from 1885 to 1893. After studies at the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague – he graduated in 1898^[2] – he began professional career as a state servant (county director) in Hodonín. From 1912 he was a senior department director in the Moravian governor's office (stadtholder government). At the time of the revolutionary establishment of Czechoslovakia,^[3]^[4] being the highest-ranked Czech-speaking imperial state servant in Moravia, he became the head of the local government for the new state on 29 November 1918.

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^ PRECLÍK, Vratislav: Prezident Masaryk a vláda Jana Černého (President T. G. Masaryk and Government of Jan Černý), in Čas (Time): časopis Masarykova demokratického hnutí (Journal of the Masaryk Democratic Movement), červenec – září (July to September) 2020, roč. (Vol) XXVIII., čís.(No) 131. ISSN 1210-1648, pages 10 – 16
^ Vyskočil, Aleš (2008). Státní úředník - příklad Jana Černého. In:Fasora, L., Malíř, J., Hanuš (eds.), J.: Člověk na Moravě 19. století. Brno, CDK. ISBN 978-80-7325-147-5. p. 312-324 (in Czech)
^ Hugh, LeCaine Agnew (2004). The Czechs and the Lands of the Bohemian crown. Hoover, Stanford University. Chapter 11
^ Macmillan Margaret (2003). Peacemakers. London, John Murray Press. Chapter 18

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Preceded by Vlastimil Tusar	Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia 1920–1921	Succeeded by Edvard Beneš
Preceded by Antonín Švehla	Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia 1926	Succeeded by Antonín Švehla

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[1] PRECLÍK, Vratislav: Prezident Masaryk a vláda Jana Černého (President T. G. Masaryk and Government of Jan Černý), in Čas (Time): časopis Masarykova demokratického hnutí (Journal of the Masaryk Democratic Movement), červenec – září (July to September) 2020, roč. (Vol) XXVIII., čís.(No) 131. ISSN 1210-1648, pages 10 – 16

[2] Vyskočil, Aleš (2008). Státní úředník - příklad Jana Černého. In:Fasora, L., Malíř, J., Hanuš (eds.), J.: Člověk na Moravě 19. století. Brno, CDK. ISBN 978-80-7325-147-5. p. 312-324 (in Czech)

[3] Hugh, LeCaine Agnew (2004). The Czechs and the Lands of the Bohemian crown. Hoover, Stanford University. Chapter 11

[4] Macmillan Margaret (2003). Peacemakers. London, John Murray Press. Chapter 18

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