| Post: | Ambassador |
| Body: | Czech Republic to the United States Embassy of the Czech Republic in Washington, D.C. |
| Incumbent: | Petr Gandalovič |
| Inaugural: | Charles Pergler |
The Czech ambassador in Washington, D. C. is the official representative of the Government in Prague to the Government of the United States.
| Diplomatic agrément | Diplomatic accreditation | Ambassador | Notes | President of the Czech Republic | President of the United States | Term end | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charles Pergler | Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk | Woodrow Wilson | |||||
| Legation Opened | Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk | Woodrow Wilson | |||||
| Jan Masaryk | Charge d'Affaires | Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk | Woodrow Wilson | ||||
| Karel Halla | Charge d'Affaires (1876-1939) | Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk | Woodrow Wilson | ||||
| Bedřich Štěpánek | Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk | Warren G. Harding | |||||
| František Chvalkovský | Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk | Calvin Coolidge | |||||
| Zdeněk Fierlinger | Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk | Calvin Coolidge | |||||
| Ferdinand Veverka | Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk | Calvin Coolidge | |||||
| Vladimír Ladislav Dionýz Svetozárov Hurban | Edvard Beneš | Franklin D. Roosevelt | |||||
| Legation raised to Embassy | Emil Hácha | Franklin D. Roosevelt | |||||
| Vladimír Ladislav Dionýz Svetozárov Hurban | Emil Hácha | Franklin D. Roosevelt | |||||
| Juraj Slávik | Juraj Slávik, broadcast 15 June 1942 (originally planned for 11 June 1942). One source even suggests that the speech was originally planned for 1 June 1942. The assassination of Heydrich took place on 27 May[1] | Edvard Beneš | Harry S. Truman | ||||
| Vladimír Outrata | (19. 4. 1909 Caslav - 9. 7. 1970 Prague)[2] | Klement Gottwald | Harry S. Truman | ||||
| Klement Gottwald | Harry S. Truman | ||||||
| Karel Petrželka | Czechoslovak Diplomat: (* April 2, 1907, Brno) educated at Univ. of Brno Law School, LL.D. 1932. Engaged in practice of law, 1932–33 | Klement Gottwald | Harry S. Truman | ||||
| Miroslav Růžek | Klement Gottwald | Harry S. Truman | |||||
| Karel Duda | 1992 ambassador London | Antonín Novotný | Dwight D. Eisenhower | ||||
| (*) In 1963 he was Ambassador in New Delhi.[3] | Antonín Novotný | Lyndon B. Johnson | |||||
| Dušan Spáčil | (* in Brno) Took part in anti-German resistance, once in June 1945 joined the Communist Party. After graduating from secondary school, he studied from r. 1948 first law at Charles University, and later in Kiev and Moscow State University (JUDr. 1954). From August 1954 until his retirement beginning. R. 1990 worked in Czechoslovakia. Communist diplomacy. His career began in the years 1956-1960 as III. Secretary of the Permanent Mission of Czechoslovakia to the United Nations in New York, then he worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and OMO in l. 1962 to 1964 then as First Secretary at the Embassy in Vienna, where he worked as the issue IAEA. From September 1964 to September 1967 he was the first secretary and later CS series. Embassy in Moscow after returning to Prague was again included in the OMO, which belonged even during the Prague Spring to the defenders of the "old order" r. 1969 also belonged to the ministry of the founders SČSP. After the onset Minister Mark J. (see) became a member of its narrower cabinet in 1970–71, then he drove OMO. From November 1971 to April 1975 he served as Ambassador to the US, after returning to Prague in May 1975 became one of five deputy ministers B. Chnoupek (see), and remained so until March 1983. His competency initially belonged MIT, and ADO IIR, and later territorial departments in the report were sessions with countries 'capitalist' Europe, after the retirement of F. Krajčír l. 1979-1983 conversely led divisions dedicated to relations with the USSR and the socialist states (1 and 2 TOs) . *From April 1983 to the end of 1988 he was the ambassador in Bonn (Germany) After appeals to Prague, then was appointed last communist Director of IIR, which remained until February 1990. In February 1990, he retired. The author strongly apologetic memoirs: We of Czernin (1996).[4] | Ludvík Svoboda | Richard Nixon | ||||
| Jaroslav Zantovsky | Charge d'Affaires (* in Brandýs n. Labem – in Prague).[5] | Ludvík Svoboda | Richard Nixon | ||||
| Dušan Spáčil | Ludvík Svoboda | Richard Nixon | |||||
| Vincent Buzek | Charge d'Affaires | Gustáv Husák | Gerald Ford | ||||
| Jaromír Johanes | (* Dobra nad Sazavou) Educated in Moscow Inst, of Int. Relations joined Ministry of Foreign Affairs 1958 later Consul-Gen. Australia Amb. to U.S.A. and Canada Deputy Foreign Minister 1982, First Deputy Foreign Minister 1987 Minister of Foreign Affairs 1988-89 Counsellor-Envoy to Turkey 1990–93, Amb. to Turkey 1993–95. | Gustáv Husák | Gerald Ford | ||||
| Jaroslav Žantovský | 1972: Chargé d'Affaires of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, acted as the official Cuban representative in the US | Gustáv Husák | Ronald Reagan | ||||
| Stanislav Suja | (* 1940 in Vglas u Zvolena, studied journalism at Comenius University and law at Moscow's MGIMO (JUDR., 1968). Afterwards he was employed by the Czechoslovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs until his release in 1990. In 1972-75 he was assigned to the Czechoslovak permanent mission[6] | Gustáv Husák | Ronald Reagan | ||||
| Miroslav Houštecký | (*10. 6. 1926, Horky nad Jizerou– 31. 1. 1994, Praha). 8. 12. 1983 Vyslanci Velké Británie[7] | Gustáv Husák | Ronald Reagan | ||||
| CZECHOSLOVAK FEDERATIVE REPUBLIC* | Václav Havel | George H. W. Bush | |||||
| Rita Klímová | Václav Havel | George H. W. Bush | |||||
| Michael Žantovský | Václav Havel | George H. W. Bush | |||||
| Alexandr Vondra | Václav Havel | Bill Clinton | |||||
| Martin Palouš | Václav Havel | George W. Bush | |||||
| Petr Kolář | Václav Klaus | George W. Bush | |||||
| Petr Gandalovič | Václav Klaus | Barack Obama | |||||
| Hynek Kmoníček | Miloš Zeman | Donald Trump |