Gustáv Husák

Gustáv Husák (January 10, 1913 Dúbravka (today part of Bratislava) - November 18, 1991 Bratislava) was a Slovak politician, a long-term Communist leader of Czechoslovakia and of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in the 1970s and 1980s. His rule is known as the period of Normalization.

Functions

Communist Party of Czechoslovakia/KSC (prohibited 1938, dissolved 1939-1945)

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• 1933-1938/1939 and 1989(December)-(February)1990: common member
• spring 1945: member of its Provisional Central Committee (established in the parts of Czechoslovakia liberated by the Red Army)
• 1949-1951 and 1968 (August 31)-1989: member of its Central Committee and (except for 1949-1951) a member of its Presidium
• 1969 (April) -?1987: one of its secretaries
• 1969 (April)-1987: party leader (first secretary, since 1971 general secretary)
• 1987 (December 17): resigned as party leader (replaced by Milo? Jake?)

Communist Party of Slovakia/KSS (illegal 1939-1944/1945)

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• 1939-1945: one of its leaders
• 1943-1944: member of its 5th illegal Central Committee
• 1944-1950 and 1968 -1971: member of its Central Committee and (except for 1970-1971) member of its Presidium and (except for 1944-1948) one of its secretaries
• 1944-1945: vice-chairman
• 1968 (August 28)-1969: party leader (?first secretary?)

Slovak National Council (during WWII a resistance parliament-government, since 1968 the Slovak parliament)

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• 1943-1944: one of its main organizers
• 1944-1950 and 1968 (December)-1971: its deputy
• 1944-1950: member of its Presidium
• 1944-1945:vice-chairman

Council of Commissioners (Zbor povereníkov) (a quasi government responsible for Slovakia)

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• 1944-1945: Commissioner of the Interior
• 1945-1946: Commissioner of Transport and Technology in Slovakia
• 1946-1950: President of the Council of Commissioners, in which he contributed to the suppression of the influential Democratic Party of Slovakia by the Communists (1947-1948)
• 1948-1950: Commissioner of Agriculture and Land Reform in Slovakia
• 1949-1950: Commissioner of Alimentation in Slovakia

Czechoslovak Parliament (called National Assembly and since 1968 Federal Assembly)

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• 1945-1951 and 1968-1975: deputy
• 1969-1975: member of its Presidium

Czechoslovak government

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• 1968 (April-December): a vice-premier of the Prague Spring Czechoslovak government

President of Czechoslovakia

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• 1975-1989: President of Czechoslovakia
• 1989 (December 10): resigned as the President of Czechoslovakia within the Velvet Revolution