Viliam Široký

Infobox_President
name=Viliam Široký


imagesize = 105px
order = 17^th
office= Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia
term_start=21 March, 1953
term_end = 20 September, 1963
predecessor=Antonín Zápotocký
successor= Jozef Lenárt
order2 = Acting
office2= President of Czechoslovakia
term_start2=13
term_end2=19 November, 1957
predecessor2=Antonín Zápotocký
successor2= Antonín Novotný
birth_date=birth date|1902|5|31
birth_place=Bratislava, Austria Hungary
death_date=death date and age|1971|10|6|1902|5|31
death_place=Prague, Czechoslovakia
party=Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
spouse= |

Viliam Široký (May 31, 1902 - October 6, 1971) was a prominent Communist politician of Czechoslovakia, the Prime Minister from 1953 to 1963, and briefly serving as the acting President of Czechoslovakia following the death of Antonín Zápotocký from 13 November to 19 November 1957. He also served as the leader of the Communist Party of Slovakia between 1945 and 1954. According to the French historian Muriel Blaive, he was an ethnic Hungarian. [Muriel Blaive. "Promarněná příležitost, Československo a rok 1956", p. 240.]

See also

* List of Prime Ministers of Czechoslovakia
* List of Presidents of Czechoslovakia

References

External links

* [http://www.mzv.cz/wwwo/mzv/default.asp?id=23163&ido=7970&idj=1&amb=1 Biography at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic]