Karel Urbánek - Wikipedia

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Czech. (17 December 2022) Click [show] for important translation instructions.

Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must follow the LLM translation guideline, revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Czech Wikipedia article at [[:cs:Karel Urbánek (politik)]]; see its history for attribution.
You may also add the template {{Translated|cs|Karel Urbánek (politik)}} to the talk page.
For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Slovak. (3 January 2023) Click [show] for important translation instructions.

Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must follow the LLM translation guideline, revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Slovak Wikipedia article at [[:sk:Karel Urbánek (politik)]]; see its history for attribution.
You may also add the template {{Translated|sk|Karel Urbánek (politik)}} to the talk page.
For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Karel Urbánek

First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
In office 24 November 1989 – 20 December 1989
Preceded by	Miloš Jakeš
Succeeded by	Ladislav Adamec (as Party Chairman)

Personal details
Born	(1941-03-22) 22 March 1941 (age 85) Bojkovice, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (present-day Czech Republic)
Party	Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (since 1990)
Other political affiliations	Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (until 1990)
Occupation	Politician
De facto ruler of the ČSSR ← Jakeš (Last in role) →

Karel Urbánek (born 22 March 1941) is a retired Czech politician, and the last communist leader of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. He, Egon Krenz from East Germany and Gombojavyn Ochirbat from Mongolia are the last former General Secretaries from the Eastern Bloc still alive.

Career

[edit]

Urbánek was born on 22 March 1941 in Bojkovice, Moravia.

A former Bojkovice railway station manager, he replaced Miloš Jakeš as Secretary General of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia after a swift election on 24 November 1989 in the wake of the Velvet Revolution. Four days later, he gave his approval to a constitutional amendment which stripped the Communist Party of its monopoly of power, which proved to be the only major decision of his tenure. However, Communist rule had effectively ended with Jakeš' resignation.^[1] He remained as party leader until 20 December 1989, when he was succeeded by Ladislav Adamec.

References

[edit]

↑ "Karel Urbánek" (in Czech). Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů. Archived from the original on 1 January 2009. Retrieved 27 February 2010.

v t e First secretaries of the Central Committee of the KSČ
Klement Gottwald Antonín Novotný Alexander Dubček Gustáv Husák Miloš Jakeš Karel Urbánek

Leaders of the ruling Communist parties of the Eastern Bloc

Party of Labour of Albania	Enver Hoxha Ramiz Alia
Bulgarian Communist Party	Georgi Dimitrov Valko Chervenkov Todor Zhivkov Petar Mladenov
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia	Klement Gottwald Antonín Novotný Alexander Dubček Gustáv Husák Miloš Jakeš Karel Urbánek
Socialist Unity Party of Germany	Wilhelm Pieck Otto Grotewohl Walter Ulbricht Erich Honecker Egon Krenz Gregor Gysi
Hungarian Working People's Party Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party	Mátyás Rákosi Ernő Gerő Imre Nagy János Kádár Károly Grósz Rezső Nyers

Polish Workers' Party Polish United Workers' Party	Bolesław Bierut Edward Ochab Władysław Gomułka Edward Gierek Stanisław Kania Wojciech Jaruzelski
Romanian Communist Party	Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej Gheorghe Apostol Nicolae Ceaușescu
Communist Party of the Soviet Union	Vladimir Lenin Joseph Stalin Georgy Malenkov Nikita Khrushchev Leonid Brezhnev Yuri Andropov Konstantin Chernenko Mikhail Gorbachev
League of Communists of Yugoslavia	Josip Broz Tito Stevan Doronjski Lazar Mojsov Dušan Dragosavac Mitja Ribičič Dragoslav Marković Ali Šukrija Vidoje Žarković Milanko Renovica Boško Krunić Stipe Šuvar Milan Pančevski

This biographical article about a Czech politician is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information.