Bohumil Laušman (30 August 1903,

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– 9 May 1963,

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) was a Czech Social Democratic politician. During

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he was in

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, where he was a member of the Czechoslovak government in exile. He returned after the war and was Minister of Industry from 1945 until he was elected chairman of the Social Democratic party in 1947. In 1949 he went to exile again - via

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. He was kidnapped from exile in

by the Czech

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in 1953, imprisoned in

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and died "in unclear circumstances" in

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in Prague in 1963.

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'', Monday, May. 31, 1954.
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