Ivan Knotek (26 August 1936–11 March 2020) was a Slovak politician who served as Politburo member and prime minister from 1988 to 1989 of the Slovak Socialist Republic.

Biography

Knotek was born in

Senica Senica (; german: Senitz; hu, Szenice) is a town in Trnava Region, western Slovakia. It is located in the north-eastern part of the Záhorie lowland, close to the Little Carpathians. Etymology The name is derived from the word ''seno'' (" hay" ...

on 26 August 1936. He was a member of both the

Communist Party of Czechoslovakia The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia ( Czech and Slovak: ''Komunistická strana Československa'', KSČ) was a communist and Marxist–Leninist political party in Czechoslovakia that existed between 1921 and 1992. It was a member of the Comint ...

and the Slovak Communist Party. Between 1969 and 1981 he was the chief secretary of the latter's district committee in

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. He became a member of the Czech Communist Party's Politburo in April 1988. He was the chairman of the Politburo's two commissions, agriculture and food commission and youth work commission between 1987 and 1988. He retained his Politburo membership in the reshuffle on 10–11 October 1988. He was also named prime minister on 12 October 1988, replacing Peter Colotka in the post. With this appointment he automatically became the deputy federal prime minister along with the Czech Prime Minister

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. Knotek's tenure as prime minister ended on 22 June 1989, and he was succeeded by

Pavel Hrivnák Pavel ( Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian and Macedonian: Павел, Czech, Slovene, Romanian: Pavel, Polish: Paweł, Ukrainian: Павло, Pavlo) is a male given name. It is a Slavic cognate of the name Paul (derived from the Greek Pavlos). Pav ...

in the post. Then he served as the Communist Party's secretary for economic affairs. In a November 1989 reshuffle, Knotek retained his post at the politburo. Knotek died in

on 11 March 2020.

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