Václav Havel
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For the Czechoslovak canoer, see Václav Havel (canoer).
| Václav Havel | |
|---|---|
 | |
| President of the Czech Republic | |
| In office 2 February 1993 – 2 February 2003 | |
| Prime Minister | Václav Klaus Josef Tošovský Miloš Zeman Vladimír Špidla |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Václav Klaus |
| President of Czechoslovakia | |
| In office 29 December 1989 – 20 July 1992 | |
| Prime Minister | Marián Čalfa Jan Stráský |
| Preceded by | Marián Čalfa (Acting) |
| Succeeded by | Jan Stráský (Acting) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 5 October 1936 Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) |
| Died | 18 December 2011 (aged 75) Hrádeček, Czech Republic |
| Political party | Civic Forum (1989–1993) supported Green Party (2004–2011) |
| Spouse(s) | Olga Šplíchalová (1964–1996) Dagmar Veškrnová (1997–2011) |
| Alma mater | Technical University, Prague |
| Signature |  |
| Website | www.vaclavhavel.cz www.vaclavhavel-library.org |
listen)) (5 October 1936 – 18 December 2011) was a Czech playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and politician. He was the tenth and last President of Czechoslovakia (1989–92) and the first President of the Czech Republic (1993–2003). He wrote over 20 plays and numerous non-fiction works, translated internationally. Havel received the US Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Philadelphia Liberty Medal, the Order of Canada, the freedom medal of the Four Freedoms Award, and the Ambassador of Conscience Award and several other distinctions. He was also voted 4th in Prospect magazine's 2005 global poll of the world's top 100 intellectuals.[1] He was a founding signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism.[2] At the time of his death he was Chairman of the New York-based Human Rights Foundation.Beginning in the 1960s, his work turned to focus on the politics of Czechoslovakia. After the Prague Spring, he became increasingly active. In 1977, his involvement with the human rights manifesto Charter 77 brought him international fame as the leader of the opposition in Czechoslovakia; it also led to his imprisonment. The 1989 Velvet Revolution launched Havel into the presidency. In this role, he led Czechoslovakia and later the Czech Republic to multi-party democracy. His thirteen years in office saw radical change in his nation, including its split with Slovakia, which Havel opposed, its accession into NATO and start of the negotiations for membership in the European Union, which was attained in 2004. end quote from wikipedia
He was the first non-communist leader and first President of the Czech Republic,
in 1989 when the iron curtain was falling in Europe.
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