Preceded by Ladislav Svoboda Political party KSC, CSSD and others | Succeeded by Jiri Dienstbier Jr. Name Jiri Dienstbier | |
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Alma mater Charles University in Prague | ||
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Jiří Dienstbier (20 April 1937, in Kladno – 8 January 2011, in Prague) was a Czech politician and journalist. He was one of Czechoslovakia's most respected foreign correspondents before being fired after the Prague Spring. Unable to have a livelihood as a journalist, he worked as a janitor for the next two decades. During this time, he secretly started Lidove noviny.
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- 1 ji dienstbier show jana krause 29 3 2013
- 20 minut Radiournlu Ji Dienstbier
- Awards and Honors
- References
After the end of communist rule in 1989, he became the country's first non-Communist foreign minister in four decades, a post he held until 1992. In 2008 he was elected to the Czech Senate for the Kladno region.
In 2000, the Vienna-based International Press Institute named him one of its 50 World Press Freedom Heroes of the past 50 years.
20 minut Radiožurnálu - Jiří Dienstbier
Awards and Honors
In 2013, Dienstbier was posthumously awarded the Hanno R. Ellenbogen Citizenship Award by the Prague Society for International Cooperation.
