The Milan Rastislav Stefanik Order is an award given "to recognize eminent contributions to the defence and security of the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic". It was bestowed by the President of the

Czech and Slovak Federative Republic After the Velvet Revolution in late-1989, Czechoslovakia adopted the official short-lived country name Czech and Slovak Federative Republic ( cz, Česká a Slovenská Federativní Republika, sk, Česká a Slovenská Federatívna Republika; ''� ...

. The award is named after Milan Rastislav Stefanik.

List of recipients

* President of the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic - First Class Insignia of the Order * Colonel Josef Adam - Third Class, 1991 * Lieutenant General

Jan Ambrus Ján Ambruš, OBE (19 May 1899 – 2 January 1994) was a Slovak aerobatics and fighter pilot. He flew with the French Air Force in the Battle of France and the Royal Air Force in the Battle of Britain. After the Communist takeover of Czechoslov ...

- Third Class, 1992 * Colonel Zdenek Bachurek - Third Class, 1991 * Brigadier General Josef Balabán - Second Class, 1992 * Major Alfred Bartos - Third Class, 1992 * Colonel Vaclav Beran, M. Sc. - Fourth Class, 1992 * Army General Josef Bily - Second Class, 1992 * Colonel Frantisek Bogataj - Third Class, 1992 * Brigadier General Jozef Brunovsky - Third Class, 1991 * Brigadier General Josef Bursik - Third Class, 1991 * Colonel Vladimir Cupak - Third Class, 1991 * Brigadier General Vojtech Danielovic - Second Class, 1992 * Colonel

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, M. Sc. - Third Class, 1991 * Brigadier General Stanislav Dvorsky - Third Class, 1991 * Brigadier General

František Fajtl Lieutenant General František Fajtl (20 August 1912 – 4 October 2006) was a Czech fighter pilot of World War II. He was a British Royal Air Force (RAF) squadron and wing commander and led a group of Czechoslovak fighter pilots who formed an ai ...

- Third Class, 1991 * Army General MVDr. Mikuláš Ferjenčík - Second Class, 1992 * Colonel Josef Flekal - Third Class, 1991 * Captain

Jozef Gabčík Jozef Gabčík (; 8 April 1912 – 18 June 1942) was a Slovak soldier in the Czechoslovak Army involved in the Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of acting ''Reichsprotektor'' (Imperial-Protector) of Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, ...

- Third Class, 1992 * Lieutenant General

Ján Golian Ján Golian (26 January 1906, Dombóvár, Hungary – 1945, Flossenbürg concentration camp, Germany) was a Slovak Brigade General who became famous as one of the main organizers and the commander of the resistance '' 1st Czechoslovak Army i ...

- Third Class, 1991 * Captain Eva Havejova - Fourth Class, 1992 * Lieutenant Colonel Rudolf Hasek - Third Class, 1992 * Colonel Frantisek Hieke - Stoj - Third Class, 1991 * Colonel Stanislav Hlucka - Third Class, 1991 * Colonel Otakar Hruby - Third Class, 1991 * Brigadier General Otakar Husak, M. Sc. - Second Class, 1992 * Colonel Frantisek Chabera - Third Class, 1991 * Army General

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- Third Class, 1991 * Army General

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Karel Janoušek Karel Janoušek, (30 October 1893 – 27 October 1971) was a senior Czechoslovak Air Force officer. He began his career as a soldier, serving in the Austrian Imperial-Royal Landwehr 1915–16, Czechoslovak Legion 1916–20 and Czechoslovak Army ...

- Second Class, 1992 * Colonel Miroslav Jiroudek - Third Class, 1991 * Colonel Josef Knop - Third Class, 1991 * Lieutenant General Jan Kratochvil - Third Class, 1991 * Brigadier General Jozef M. Kristin - Second Class, 1992 * Brigadier General Rudolf Krzak - Third Class, 1991 * Captain Jan Kubis - Third Class, 1992 * Colonel Otmar Kučera - Third Class, 1992 * Army General Karel Kutlvasr - Second Class, 1992 * Brigadier General Vladislav Kuzel-Znievcan - Third Class, 1992 * Army General Alois Liška - Third Class, 1991 * Colonel Antonin Liska - Third Class, 1991 * Brigadier General Karel Lukas - Third Class, 1992 * Army General Vojtech B. Luza, M. Sc. - Second Class, 1992 * Colonel Jiri Manak - Third Class, 1992 * Colonel Anton Martis - Third Class, 1991 * Brigadier General Josef V. Mašín - Second Class, 1992 * Brigadier General

František Moravec František Moravec CBE (23 July 1895 – 26 July 1966) was the chief Czechoslovak military intelligence officer before and during World War II. He moved to the United States after the war. Biography In 1915, Moravec was drafted into Austro-Hun ...

- Third Class, 1991 * Lieutenant Colonel

Václav Morávek Václav Morávek (8 August 1904 – 21 March 1942) was a Czechoslovak Brigadier General and national hero, one of the best known personalities of the Czech antinazi rezistance and a member of the famous resistance group called the ''Three Kin ...

- Second Class, 1992 * Brigadier General Karel Mrazek, M. Sc. - Third Class, 1991 * Colonel Egon Nezbeda, M. Sc. - Third Class, 1991 * Brigadier General Julius Nosko - Second Class, 1992 * Colonel Teodor Obuch, M. Sc. - Fourth Class, 1992 * Major

Adolf Opálka First Lieutenant Adolf Opálka (4 January 1915 – 18 June 1942) was a Czechoslovak soldier, member of the Czech sabotage group Out Distance, a World War II anti-Nazi resistance group, and a participant in Operation Anthropoid, the successful ...

- Third Class, 1991 * Colonel Josef Pavelka - Third Class, 1991 * Colonel Bohumil Pelikan - Third Class, 1991 * Brigadier General Rudolf Pernický - Third Class, 1991 * Major General

Heliodor Píka General Heliodor Píka (3 July 1897 – 21 June 1949) was a Czechoslovak army officer who was the first Victim of judicial murder of the Czechoslovak Communist show trials. Early life Heliodor Píka was born in a village of Štítina in Au ...

- Third Class, 1991 * Colonel Zdeněk Procházka - Third Class, 1991 * Colonel Jan Prokop - Third Class, 1991 * Brigadier General Vladimir Prikryl - Third Class, 1991 * Lieutenant Colonel Pavol Pukancik - Third Class, 1991 * Colonel Stanislav Rajmon - Third Class, 1991 * Captain Prof. M. D. Alexander Rehak, DrSc. - Fourth Class, 1992 * Brigadier General Frantisek Rezabek - Third Class, 1991 * Colonel Tomáš Sedláček - Third Class, 1991 * Colonel chartered economist Karol Schwarz - Third Class, 1992 * Colonel Alois Sitek - Fourth Class, 1992 * Colonel Vladimir Slansky - Third Class, 1991 * Major Oto Smik - Third Class, 1992 * Colonel Josef Stehlik - Third Class, 1991 * Colonel Karel Seda - Third Class, 1991 * Colonel Alois Siska - Third Class, 1991 * Major Antonin Sida - Third Class, 1991 * Milos Uher - Fourth Class, 1992 * Captain Jan Usiak - Fourth Class, 1992 * Brigadier General

Alois Vašátko Alois Vašátko DFC (25 August 1908 – 23 June 1942) was a Czechoslovak artillery officer who became an air force pilot. In the Second World War he was a fighter ace, first in the French Air Force in the Battle of France and then in the Ro ...

- Third Class, 1992 * Brigadier General Jaroslav Vedral - Sazavsky - Third Class, 1991 * Brigadier General Milos Vesel - Third Class, 1992 * Brigadier General Mirko Vesel - Second Class, 1992 * Lieutenant Colonel Josef Vesely - Third Class, 1991 * Army General

Rudolf Viest Rudolf Viest (24 September 1890, Revúca, Gömör és Kis-Hont County, Kingdom of Hungary, – 1945 ?, Flossenbürg concentration camp ?, Germany) was a Slovak military leader, member of the Czechoslovak government in exile, member of the Slova ...

- Third Class, 1991 * Colonel Josef Vopalecky - Third Class, 1991 * Colonel Otto Wagner - Third Class, 1991 * Brigadier General Frantisek Weber - Third Class, 1991 * Brigadier General Richard Zdrahala - Third Class, 1991 * Brigadier General Viliam Zingor - Third Class, 1991

References

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Orders, decorations, and medals of Czechoslovakia Milan Rastislav Štefánik Milan Rastislav Štefánik Awards established in 1991 Awards disestablished in 1992 1991 establishments in Czechoslovakia 1992 disestablishments in Czechoslovakia