Ruler · 1896 – 1953

Klement Gottwald

Lived 1896 – 1953; politician. Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia (Czechoslovakia), 1946 – 1953; also in the line of Third Czechoslovak Republic.

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Lived: 1896 – 1953; 57 years
In office: 7 years; one reign
Lines: 2; states
Left it: died in office; Wikidata's manner of death

Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia · the 19th of 34 dated reigns · 1918 – 1992

15 before

Jan Šrámek1940 – 1945

Zdeněk Fierlinger1945 – 1946

Edvard Beneš1945 – 1948

Klement Gottwald1946 – 1953

Antonín Zápotocký1948 – 1957

Viliam Široký1953 – 1963

Antonín Novotný1957 – 1968

12 after

deposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 1946 – 1953 · 7 years · came to it aged 50

Left it: died in officeWikidata's manner of death: natural causes; myocardial infarction

Also in the line of Third Czechoslovak Republic (4th of 4, read from the line of Czechoslovakia).

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