Ludmila Jankovcová (née Stračovská; 8 August 1897 – 5 September 1990) was a Czechoslovak politician.
Ludmila Jankovcová | |
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.jpg) Jankovcová in 1948 | |
| Deputy Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia | |
| In office 12 December 1954 – 20 September 1963 | |
| Prime Minister | Viliam Široký |
| Minister of Food | |
| In office 25 February 1948 – 12 December 1954 | |
| Prime Minister | Klement Gottwald (1948) Antonín Zápotocký (1948–1953) Viliam Široký (1953–1954) |
| Preceded by | Václav Majer |
| Succeeded by | Jindřich Uher |
| Minister of Industry | |
| In office 25 November 1947 – 25 February 1948 | |
| Prime Minister | Klement Gottwald |
| Preceded by | Bohumil Laušman |
| Succeeded by | Zdeněk Fierlinger |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Ludmila Stračovská 8 August 1897 Kutná Hora, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 5 September 1990 (aged 93) Plzeň[1] or Prague,[2] Czechoslovakia |
| Political party | Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers' Party (1921–1948) Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (1948–1969) |
| Spouse | Volfgang Jankovec |
Biography
editAfter finishing gymnasium in Kutná Hora, Jankovcová studied at the University of Commerce in Prague in 1919–1923. After graduating with a degree in engineering, she worked as a secondary school teacher. In 1921, she married Volfgang Jankovec, also a teacher. After the occupation of the Czech lands by Nazi Germany in 1939, the couple joined the anti-Nazi resistance.[1] They were arrested by the Gestapo in 1941; Ludmila was sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp,[3] while Volfgang was imprisoned and executed three years later. A member of the Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers' Party (ČSSD) from 1922, Jankovcová entered national politics after World War II, serving as vice-president of the party and being elected a deputy to the Constituent National Assembly in 1946. A member of the party's left wing, she supported the merging of the ČSSD into the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) in 1948.[1] From June 1948 until September 1963, she served as a member of the Central Committee of the KSČ, including as a member of the Political Bureau from June 1954.[4]
From November 1947, Jankovcová served as Minister of Industry in Klement Gottwald's first government; in February 1948 she was appointed Minister of Food, and would remain in this position until December 1954. She then served as a Deputy Prime Minister under Viliam Široký until her retirement in 1963.[2] After retiring, Jankovcová supported the reform movement within the KSČ, headed by Alexander Dubček, which culminated in the Prague Spring of 1968. She condemned the subsequent Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968,[1] and was expelled from the KSČ in September 1969.[4] She later supported the Czechoslovak dissident movement, and was one of the signatories of Charter 77 in January 1977.[1]
Honours and awards
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Order of the Republic, two times (7 May 1955; 1957)[5]
Order of Klement Gottwald (14 July 1967)[6]
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References
edit- ^ a b c d e "JANKOVCOVÁ Ludmila" (in Czech). Regionální knihovna Teplice. Retrieved 25 August 2024.
- ^ a b "Ludmila Jankovcová" (in Czech). Vláda České republiky. Retrieved 25 August 2024.
- ^ "Ludmila Jankovcová". Database of the Czech Inmates in the Concentration Camp Ravensbrück 1939-1945 (in Czech). Terezín Memorial. Retrieved 25 August 2024.
- ^ a b "Nejvyšší funkcionáři komunistické strany 1945 - 1989". Cibulka.net (in Czech). Retrieved 22 August 2024.
- ^ "Řád Republiky (zřízen vládním nařízením č. 30/1951 Sb. ze dne 3. dubna 1951) SEZNAM NOSITELŮ podle matriky nositelů (Archiv KPR, fond KPR, Evidenční knihy k udělování státních vyznamenání, inv. č. 43, kniha č. 7)" (PDF). Archiv Kanceláře prezidenta republiky (in Czech). 17 January 2015. Retrieved 26 August 2024.
- ^ "Řád Klementa Gottwalda - za budování socialistické vlasti (zřízen vládním nařízením č. 14/1953 Sb. ze dne 3. února 1953, respektive vládním nařízením č. 5/1955 Sb. ze dne 8. února 1955) SEZNAM NOSITELŮ podle matriky nositelů (Archiv KPR, fond KPR, Evidenční knihy k udělování státních vyznamenání, inv. č. 42, kniha č. 6)" (PDF). Archiv Kanceláře prezidenta republiky (in Czech). 17 January 2015. Retrieved 14 August 2024.