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Luboš Dobrovský
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Minister of Defence of Czechoslovakia
In office
18 October 1990 – 2 July 1992
Prime Minister Marián Čalfa
Preceded by Miroslav Vacek
Succeeded by Imrich Andrejčák
Czech Republic Ambassador to Russia
In office
1996–2000
President Václav Havel
Preceded by Rudolf Slánský Jr.
Succeeded by Jaroslav Bašta
Personal details
Born
Luboš Hamerschlag

(1932-02-03)February 3, 1932
Kolín, Czechoslovakia
Died January 30, 2020(2020-01-30) (aged 87)
Prague, Czech Republic

Luboš Dobrovský (born Luboš Hamerschlag, 3 February 1932 – 30 January 2020) was a Czech journalist and politician, who served as Czechoslovak Minister of Defence.

Dobrovsky's father Ludvík Hamerschlag was Jewish. Deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in September 1943, he did not survive the war. Dobrovský and his mother spent the war on a farm in Ohrada; his mother remarried the officer Josef Dobrovský after the war.

Dobrovský was member of Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and journalist of the Czechoslovak Radio between 1959 and 1968. He signed Charta 77 in the 1970s and served as a spokesman of the Civic Forum in 1989. Between October 1990 and June 1992 he was the Czechoslovak minister of defence. Later, he served as director of the Office of the Czech President Václav Havel. Between 1996 and 2000 he was the Czech Ambassador in Moscow.

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