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Klement Gottwald

1896 - 1953

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Klement Gottwald (Czech pronunciation: [ˈklɛmɛnt ˈɡotvalt]; 23 November 1896 – 14 March 1953) was a Czech communist politician, who was the leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from 1929 until his death in 1953 – titled as general secretary until 1945 and as chairman from 1945 to 1953. He was the first leader of Communist Czechoslovakia from 1948 to 1953. Following the collapse of democratic Czechoslovakia after the Munich Agreement, the right-wing leadership of the Czechoslovak Second Republic banned the Communist Party, forcing Gottwald to emigrate to the Soviet Union in November 1938. In 1943, Gottwald agreed with representatives of the Czechoslovak-government-in-exile located in London, along with President Edvard Beneš, to unify domestic and foreign anti-fascist resistance and form the National Front. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Klement Gottwald is the 1,346th most popular politician (down from 1,061st in 2019), the 44th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 38th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Czech Politician.

Klement Gottwald was the first president of Czechoslovakia. He was most famous for being the first president of Czechoslovakia.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Klement Gottwald ranks 1,346 out of 19,576. Before him are Ptolemy VIII Physcon, Carol II of Romania, Alfonso V of Aragon, Theophilos, Valdemar II of Denmark, and Edward Bulwer-Lytton. After him are Dzhokhar Dudayev, Robert I of France, Qin Er Shi, Lou Henry Hoover, Shamil, 3rd Imam of Dagestan, and Paul Barras.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Klement Gottwald ranks 16. Before him are Roman Jakobson, Antonin Artaud, Gerty Cori, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Konstantin Rokossovsky, and Robert S. Mulliken. After him are Trygve Lie, Andrei Zhdanov, Paula Hitler, Milena Jesenská, Carl Ferdinand Cori, and Felix Steiner. Among people deceased in 1953, Klement Gottwald ranks 11. Before him are Ibn Saud, Edwin Hubble, Gerd von Rundstedt, Robert Andrews Millikan, Guccio Gucci, and Carol II of Romania. After him are Emmerich Kálmán, Eugene O'Neill, Django Reinhardt, Ivan Bunin, Vladimir Tatlin, and Hans Fritzsche.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Klement Gottwald ranks 44 out of 1,200. Before him are Ottokar II of Bohemia (1233), Gerty Cori (1896), Peter Grünberg (1939), Jan Palach (1948), Miloš Zeman (1944), and Bernard Bolzano (1781). After him are Karl Kautsky (1854), Adolf Loos (1870), Johann Palisa (1848), Bohuslav Martinů (1890), Václav Klaus (1941), and Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (1289).

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Among POLITICIANS In Czechia

Among politicians born in Czechia, Klement Gottwald ranks 7. Before him are Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1316), Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850), Edvard Beneš (1884), Arthur Seyss-Inquart (1892), Ottokar II of Bohemia (1233), and Miloš Zeman (1944). After him are Václav Klaus (1941), Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (1289), Wenceslaus II of Bohemia (1271), Joanna of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (1547), Emil Hácha (1872), and George of Poděbrady (1420).

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