List of prime ministers of Czechoslovakia explained

Post:Prime Minister
Body:Czechoslovakia
Insignia:Coat of arms of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic.svg
Insigniasize:125px
Insigniacaption:Coat of arms
Appointer:The President
First:Karel Kramář
Last:Jan Stráský
Superseded By: Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
Prime Minister of Slovakia

The prime minister of Czechoslovakia (Czech: předseda vlády Československa, Slovak: predseda vlády Česko-Slovenska) was the head of government of Czechoslovakia, from the creation of the First Czechoslovak Republic in 1918 until the dissolution of the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic on 1 January 1993.

During periods when the post of the president of Czechoslovakia was vacant, the prime minister took on most presidential duties. However, the Czechoslovak constitutions do not define anything like a post of acting president.

Prime ministers of Czechoslovakia (1918–1992)

Political parties
Other factions
PortraitName
EthnicityTerm of officePolitical party
Took officeLeft officeTime in office

First Czechoslovak Republic

1Karel Kramář
Czech14 November 19188 July 1919ČSND
2Vlastimil Tusar
Czech8 July 191915 September 1920ČSSD
3Jan Černý
Czech15 September 192026 September 1921Independent
4Edvard Beneš
Czech26 September 19217 October 1922Independent
5Antonín Švehla
Czech7 October 192218 March 1926RSZML
6Jan Černý
Czech18 March 192612 October 1926Independent
7Antonín Švehla
Czech12 October 19261 February 1929RSZML
8František Udržal
Czech1 February 192924 October 1932RSZML
9Jan Malypetr
Czech24 October 19325 November 1935RSZML
10Milan Hodža
Slovak5 November 193522 September 1938RSZML

Second Czechoslovak Republic

11Jan Syrový
Czech22 September 19381 December 1938Independent
12Rudolf Beran
Czech1 December 193815 March 1939RSZML / SNJ

Occupation

Third Czechoslovak Republic

13Zdeněk Fierlinger
Czech5 April 19452 July 1946ČSSD
14Klement Gottwald
Czech2 July 194615 June 1948KSČ

Communist Era

15Antonín Zápotocký
Czech15 June 194814 March 1953KSČ
16Viliam Široký
Slovak14 March 195320 September 1963KSČ
17Jozef Lenárt
Slovak20 September 19638 April 1968KSČ
18Oldřich Černík
Czech8 April 196828 January 1970KSČ
19Lubomír Štrougal
Czech28 January 197012 October 1988KSČ
20Ladislav Adamec
Czech12 October 19887 December 1989KSČ

Post–Communist Era

21Marián Čalfa
Slovak7 December 19892 July 1992KSČ / VPN / ODÚ
22Jan Stráský
Czech2 July 199231 December 1992ODS

See also