Jiří Dienstbier
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| Jiří Dienstbier | |
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| Senator from Kladno | |
| In office 25 October 2008 – 8 January 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Ladislav Svoboda |
| Succeeded by | Jiří Dienstbier Jr. |
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| Born | 20 April 1937 Kladno, Czechoslovakia |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Prague, Czech Republic |
| Political party | KSČ, ČSSD and others |
| Alma mater | Charles University in Prague |
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.[1]
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.[2]
Awards and Honors
In 2013, Dienstbier was posthumously awarded the Hanno R. Ellenbogen Citizenship Award by the Prague Society for International Cooperation.[3]
References
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- ↑ List of Hanno R. Ellenbogen Award Winners on Praguesociety.org
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