Occupation: | Politician, businessman |
Birth Date: | 21 February 1957 |
Birth Place: | Prague, Czechoslovakia |
Office: | Member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic |
Term Start: | 1 June 1996 |
Term End: | 12 February 1998 |
Party: | Freedom Union – Democratic Union |
Tomáš Březina (born 21 February 1957 in Prague) is a Czech politician and businessman.
Březina was born in Prague and raised in Husinec and Nalžovské Hory. He has three children.[1]
Březina is founder and former director of BEST, one of the leading domestic manufacturers of concrete building elements.[2] He is nicknamed the "concrete king"[3] or "concrete Bata".[4] [5] In the years 1996–1998, he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic for the Civic Democratic Party, later for the Freedom Union.[6] He founded and leads the Czech Union of Concrete Workers, before that he led the Association of Garden Architecture Manufacturers.[7] Březina was a candidate in 2023 Czech presidential election, but due to failure to meet the legal conditions for candidacy, he was disqualified from the election.[8]