Ivan Čarnogurský (27 May 1933 – 9 November 2022) was a Slovak businessman and politician. A member of the

Christian Democratic Movement The Christian Democratic Movement (, KDH) is a Christian democratic political party in Slovakia that is a member of the European People's Party (EPP) and an observer of the Centrist Democrat International The Centrist Democrat International ...

, he served in the Chamber of People from June to December 1992. He was the brother of the first prime minister of Slovakia

Ján Čarnogurský Ján Čarnogurský (born 1 January 1944) is a Slovak former politician, who served as the Prime Minister of Slovakia The prime minister of Slovakia, officially the chairman of the government of the Slovak Republic (Slovak language, Slovak: '' ...

. Čarnogurský died in

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on 9 November 2022, at the age of 89.

Biography

He grew up with his grandmother in Vajnory and after the outbreak of the

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in Mala Frankova in Zamagurie. He studied

mechanical engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines and mechanism (engineering), mechanisms that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and engineering mathematics, mathematics principl ...

at the

Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (STU) () is the biggest and oldest university of technology in Slovakia. In the 2012 Academic Ranking of World Universities it was ranked in the first 150 in Computer Science, the only university in ...

and management at the

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. From 1958 to 1989 he worked as an engineer in various positions, successively in senior positions. From 1969 to 1970 he managed the construction of the airport in Nasseria,

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, and participated in the design and construction of the Gabčíkovo hydroelectric power station.

References

1933 births 2022 deaths Christian Democratic Movement politicians Members of the Chamber of the People of Czechoslovakia (1992) Slovak businesspeople University of Economics in Bratislava alumni Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava alumni Politicians from Bratislava {{Slovakia-politician-stub