Ministry of Defense (Czechoslovakia)

Logo of Czechoslovak Army before 1961

The Ministry of Defense of Czechoslovakia refers to the defense ministry which was responsible for defense of Czechoslovakia during its existence, from 1918 to 1992.

List of ministers

Ministers of Defense of the First Czechoslovak Republic (1918–1938)

Václav Klofáč, Minister of Defense from 1918 to 1920

Jiří Stříbrný, Minister of Defense from 1925 to 1926

General of the Army Jan Syrový, Minister of Defense in 1926 and from 1938 to 1939

#	Name	Born–Died	Rank	Start	End	Note
1	Václav Klofáč	1868–1942	No military rank	14 November 1918	24 May 1920
2	Vlastimil Tusar	1880–1924	No military rank	25 May 1920	15 July 1920
3	Ivan Markovič	1888–1944	No military rank	16 July 1920	14 September 1920
4	Otakar Husák	1885–1964	General	15 September 1920	25 September 1921
5	František Udržal	1866–1938	No military rank	26 September 1921	8 December 1925	1st Term
6	Jiří Stříbrný	1880–1955	No military rank	9 December 1925	17 March 1926
7	Jan Syrový	1888–1970	General of the Army	18 March 1926	11 October 1926	1st Term
8	František Udržal	1866–1938	No military rank	12 October 1926	15 September 1929	2nd Term
9	Karel Viškovský	1868–1932	No military rank	16 September 1929	28 October 1932
10	Bohumír Bradáč	1881–1935	No military rank	29 October 1932	3 June 1935
11	František Machník	1886–1967	No military rank	3 June 1935	21 September 1938

Minister of Defense of the Second Czechoslovak Republic (1938–1939)

#	Name	Born–Died	Rank	Start	End	Note
1	Jan Syrový	1888–1970	General of the Army	22 September 1938	27 April 1939	2nd Term

Ministers of Defense of the Czechoslovak government-in-exile (1940–1945)

General of the Army Sergej Ingr, Minister of Defense in the Czechoslovak government-in-exile from 1940 to 1944

#	Name	Born–Died	Rank	Start	End	Note
1	Sergej Ingr	1894–1956	General of the Army	21 July 1940	19 September 1944
2	Jan Masaryk	1886–1948	No military rank	September 1944	3 April 1945

Minister of Defense of the Third Czechoslovak Republic (1945–1948)

#	Name	Born–Died	Rank	Start	End	Note
1	Ludvík Svoboda	1895–1979	General of the Army	4 April 1945	7 June 1948	Continued below

Ministers of Defense during the Communist Era (Czechoslovak Republic and Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, 1948–1989)

General of the Army Ludvík Svoboda, Minister of Defense from 1945 to 1950

General of the Army Martin Dzúr, Minister of Defense from 1968 to 1985

General of the Army Milán Václavík, Minister of Defense from 1985 to 1989

#	Name	Born–Died	Rank	Start	End	Note
1	Ludvík Svoboda	1895–1979	General of the Army	7 June 1948	24 April 1950	Continued from above
2	Alexej Čepička	1910–1990	General of the Army	25 April 1950	24 April 1956
3	Bohumír Lomský	1914–1982	General of the Army	25 April 1956	23 April 1968
4	Martin Dzúr	1919–1985	General of the Army	24 April 1968	10 January 1985	Died five days after stepped down as Defense Minister
5	Milán Václavík	1928–2007	General of the Army	10 January 1985	3 December 1989

Ministers of Defense of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic (1989–1992)

General Imrich Andrejčák, Minister of Defense in 1992

#	Name	Born–Died	Rank	Start	End	Note
1	Miroslav Vacek	1935–	General of the Army	4 December 1989	17 October 1990
2	Luboš Dobrovský	1932–	No military rank	18 October 1990	1 July 1992
3	Imrich Andrejčák	1941–	General	2 July 1992	31 December 1992

See also

• Ministry of Defence (Czech Republic)

External links

• Ministers of Defense of Czechoslovakia 1918-1992