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Valtr komarek sametova revoluce a polistopadovy vyvoj
Prof. Eng. Valtr Komarek , MD. (10 August 1930 – 16 May 2013) was a Czech economist, forecaster and politician, from March 2011 honorary chairman of the Czech Social Democratic Party, an active participant of the Velvet Revolution in 1989, 1st Deputy Minister of National Understanding , MP Federal Assembly and CSSD election leader in the elections of 1992. It is considered one of the key figures of the November events and post-revolution politics and economics.
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- Valtr komarek sametova revoluce a polistopadovy vyvoj
- Valtr Komrek V tto zemi se mus t lpe
- Personal life
- Awards
- References
Valtr Komárek: V této zemi se musí žít lépe
Personal life
He was born in Hodonin in a Jewish family. His parents died during the Second World War concentration camp, Valtr Komarek was saved through foster care and escaped the Holocaust . After the war he joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
He graduated from the Economic Institute in Moscow in the 60s of the 20th century worked in the State Planning Commission and the economics section of the Politburo of the CPC Central Committee. From 1964 until 1967 he worked in Cuba as a consultant Ernesto Che Guevara. In the year 1968 belonged among the economists who participated in preparing the so-called economic reforms. Prague Spring . Since the beginning of 1968, he was general secretary of the Economic Council of Czechoslovakia, where he remained until 1971, when it was for his reformist attitude revoked and transferred to federal pricing authority .
Gradually returned to higher professional positions. Since 1978, as a researcher at the Economic Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences . From 1984 he was director of the Forecasting Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy , where a team of handlers proposals for possible amendments, whose members and associates have been numerous later Post-revolution politicians, such as Vaclav Klaus , Milos Zeman (one here, however, started after the revolution), Dyba , Tomas Jezek , Vladimír long , Miloslav Ransdorf etc.
In November 1989 he worked with the Civic Forum and December 10, 1989 became the first vice-president called. Government of National Unity, Prime Minister Marian Calfa (since April 1990 Deputy Prime Minister). Government post he held until June 1990. Initially, ranked among the most popular economic government ministers, but was criticized pravicovějšími ministers and losing influence. After the 1990 elections the government has not been included.
Subsequently, he worked as a legislator. In elections in 1990 , he sat in the House of the People (constituency Central Region ) for OF. After the disintegration of the Civic Forum in 1991, he moved to Club Members' social democratic orientation. Since 1991 he was a member of the CSSD . He belonged to a group of politicians of the Civic Forum, which in 1991-1992 addressed social democracy. He defended his mandate in elections in 1992 , now for the Social Democrats.He was party leader election and the election campaign is to define economic reform in the administration of Vaclav Klaus . Federal Assembly remained until the demise of Czechoslovakia , the way the split of Czechoslovakia criticized.
After the split of Czechoslovakia (and the abolition of the Forecasting Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy) withdrew from public life.
Since March 2011, he served as honorary chairman of the Czech Social Democratic Party . His son Martin Komarek (born 1961) is a journalist and politician.
He died following complications from heart surgery May 16, 2013 in Prague. The President Milos Zeman and other political figures labeled his death a great loss for Czech society.