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Luboš Dobrovský
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| Minister of Defence of Czechoslovakia | |
| In office 18 October 1990 – 2 July 1992 |
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| Prime Minister | Marián Čalfa |
| Preceded by | Miroslav Vacek |
| Succeeded by | Imrich Andrejčák |
| Czech Republic Ambassador to Russia | |
| In office 1996–2000 |
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| President | Václav Havel |
| Preceded by | Rudolf Slánský Jr. |
| Succeeded by | Jaroslav Bašta |
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Luboš Hamerschlag
February 3, 1932 Kolín, Czechoslovakia |
| Died | January 30, 2020 (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.
