Josef Korčák (17 December 1921 – 5 October 2008) was a Czech politician who served as the Prime Minister of the Czech Socialist Republic from 1970 to 1987. He was the longest-serving Czech Prime Minister.

Biography

He was born in Holštejn. He became a metal-turner. He worked in the Brno armory from 1937 to 1948. In 1948, he became active in politics. He became Prime Minister in 1970 when he replaced Josef Kempný. He remained in this position until 1987, when

Ladislav Adamec Ladislav Adamec (10 September 1926 – 14 April 2007) was a Czechoslovak communist politician. Early life Adamec was born in Moravia on 10 September 1926. From 1958 to 1961 he studied at the Political College of the Central Committee of th ...

replaced hm. Kočák was excluded from

KSČ The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (Czech language, Czech and Slovak language, Slovak: ''Komunistická strana Československa'', KSČ) was a communist and Marxism–Leninism, Marxist–Leninist political party in Czechoslovakia that existed b ...

in 1990. He died in 2008.

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