List of ambassadors of the Czech Republic to the United States

The Czech ambassador in Washington, D. C. is the official representative of the Government in Prague to the Government of the United States.

Ambassador of Czech Republic to the United States Embassy of the Czech Republic in Washington, D.C.
Incumbent Petr Gandalovič since July 7, 2011
Inaugural holder	Charles Pergler
Formation	1918

History

List of representatives

Diplomatic agrément	Diplomatic accreditation	Ambassador	Notes	President of the Czech Republic	President of the United States	Term end
1918		Charles Pergler		Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk	Woodrow Wilson
December 8, 1919			Legation Opened	Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk	Woodrow Wilson
December 8, 1919		Jan Masaryk	Charge d'Affaires	Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk	Woodrow Wilson
October 5, 1920		Karel Halla	Charge d'Affaires (1876-1939)	Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk	Woodrow Wilson
January 5, 1921		Bedřich Štěpánek	[lower-alpha 1]	Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk	Warren G. Harding
June 15, 1923		František Chvalkovský		Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk	Calvin Coolidge
October 12, 1925		Zdeněk Fierlinger		Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk	Calvin Coolidge
November 5, 1928	November 20, 1928	Ferdinand Veverka	[lower-alpha 2]	Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk	Calvin Coolidge
December 30, 1936		Vladimír Ladislav Dionýz Svetozárov Hurban	[lower-alpha 3]	Edvard Beneš	Franklin D. Roosevelt
June 28, 1943			Legation raised to Embassy	Emil Hácha	Franklin D. Roosevelt
June 14, 1943	June 28, 1943	Vladimír Ladislav Dionýz Svetozárov Hurban	[lower-alpha 4]	Emil Hácha	Franklin D. Roosevelt
June 4, 1946	June 12, 1946	Juraj Slávik	Juraj Slávik, broadcast 15 June 1942 (originally planned for 11 June 1942). One source even suggests that the speech was originally planned for 1 June 1942. The assassination of Heydrich took place on 27 May[4]	Edvard Beneš	Harry S. Truman
March 3, 1948		Vladimír Outrata	(19. 4. 1909 Caslav - 9. 7. 1970 Prague)[5]	Klement Gottwald	Harry S. Truman
June 14, 1948	June 21, 1948	Vladimír Procházka  [cs]		Klement Gottwald	Harry S. Truman
August 23, 1951	August 28, 1951	Karel Petrželka	Czechoslovak Diplomat: (* April 2, 1907, Brno) educated at Univ. of Brno Law School, LL.D. 1932. Engaged in practice of law, 1932–33	Klement Gottwald	Harry S. Truman
October 13, 1952	October 24, 1952	Miroslav Růžek		Klement Gottwald	Harry S. Truman
May 5, 1959	May 20, 1959	Karel Duda	1992 ambassador London	Antonín Novotný	Dwight D. Eisenhower
October 1, 1963	November 13, 1963	Ivan Roháľ-Iľkiv [cs]	(* February 16, 1917) In 1963 he was Ambassador in New Delhi.[6]	Antonín Novotný	Lyndon B. Johnson
October 15, 1969	October 16, 1969	Dušan Spáčil	(* May 17, 1929 in Brno) Took part in anti-German resistance, once in June 1945 joined the Communist Party. After graduating from secondary school, he studied from r. 1948 first law at Charles University, and later in Kiev and Moscow State University (JUDr. 1954). From August 1954 until his retirement beginning. R. 1990 worked in Czechoslovakia. Communist diplomacy. His career began in the years 1956-1960 as III. Secretary of the Permanent Mission of Czechoslovakia to the United Nations in New York, then he worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and OMO in l. 1962 to 1964 then as First Secretary at the Embassy in Vienna, where he worked as the issue IAEA. From September 1964 to September 1967 he was the first secretary and later CS series. Embassy in Moscow after returning to Prague was again included in the OMO, which belonged even during the Prague Spring to the defenders of the "old order" r. 1969 also belonged to the ministry of the founders SČSP. After the onset Minister Mark J. (see) became a member of its narrower cabinet in 1970–71, then he drove OMO. From November 1971 to April 1975 he served as Ambassador to the US, after returning to Prague in May 1975 became one of five deputy ministers B. Chnoupek (see), and remained so until March 1983. His competency initially belonged MIT, and ADO IIR, and later territorial departments in the report were sessions with countries 'capitalist' Europe, after the retirement of F. Krajčír l. 1979-1983 conversely led divisions dedicated to relations with the USSR and the socialist states (1 and 2 TOs) . *From April 1983 to the end of 1988 he was the ambassador in Bonn (Germany) After appeals to Prague, then was appointed last communist Director of IIR, which remained until February 1990. In February 1990, he retired. The author strongly apologetic memoirs: We of Czernin (1996).[7]	Ludvík Svoboda	Richard Nixon
September 30, 1971		Jaroslav Zantovsky	Charge d'Affaires (* July 2, 1924 in Brandýs n. Labem – December 15, 1986 in Prague).[8]	Ludvík Svoboda	Richard Nixon
March 7, 1972	March 27, 1972	Dušan Spáčil		Ludvík Svoboda	Richard Nixon
May 15, 1975		Vincent Buzek	Charge d'Affaires	Gustáv Husák	Gerald Ford
May 4, 1976	May 21, 1976	Jaromír Johanes	(* August 21, 1933 Dobra nad Sazavou) Educated in Moscow Inst, of Int. Relations joined Ministry of Foreign Affairs 1958 later Consul-Gen. Australia Amb. to U.S.A. and Canada Deputy Foreign Minister 1982, First Deputy Foreign Minister 1987 Minister of Foreign Affairs 1988-89 Counsellor-Envoy to Turkey 1990–93, Amb. to Turkey 1993–95.	Gustáv Husák	Gerald Ford
June 3, 1982	July 29, 1982	Jaroslav Žantovský	1972: Chargé d'Affaires of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, acted as the official Cuban representative in the US	Gustáv Husák	Ronald Reagan
September 7, 1983	October 13, 1983	Stanislav Suja	(* 1940 in Vglas u Zvolena, studied journalism at Comenius University and law at Moscow's MGIMO (JUDR., 1968). Afterwards he was employed by the Czechoslovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs until his release in 1990. In 1972-75 he was assigned to the Czechoslovak permanent mission[9]	Gustáv Husák	Ronald Reagan
April 25, 1986	June 23, 1986	Miroslav Houštecký	(*10. 6. 1926, Horky nad Jizerou– 31. 1. 1994, Praha). 8. 12. 1983 Vyslanci Velké Británie[10]	Gustáv Husák	Ronald Reagan
March 1, 1990			CZECHOSLOVAK FEDERATIVE REPUBLIC*	Václav Havel	George H. W. Bush
February 15, 1990	April 9, 1990	Rita Klímová		Václav Havel	George H. W. Bush
October 5, 1992	November 18, 1992	Michael Žantovský		Václav Havel	George H. W. Bush
April 4, 1997	May 14, 1997	Alexandr Vondra		Václav Havel	Bill Clinton
October 1, 2001	October 10, 2001	Martin Palouš		Václav Havel	George W. Bush
November 30, 2005	December 2, 2005	Petr Kolář		Václav Klaus	George W. Bush
May 23, 2011	July 7, 2011	Petr Gandalovič		Václav Klaus	Barack Obama
March 16, 2017	April 24, 2017	Hynek Kmoníček		Miloš Zeman	Donald Trump

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See also

• Czech Republic–United States relations

References

Notes

1. Bedřich Štěpánek (1884–1953), a lawyer and diplomat who received his training in Vienna, Paris and Moscow. When the Czechoslovak Republic was established in 1918, he helped with laying the foundation.^[1]
2. Ferdinand Veverka (b. 1887), his wife Nelly was the daughter of Julius Gregr^[2]
3. Vladimír Ladislav Dionýz Svetozárov Hurban (1883-1949), son of diplomat Svetozár Hurban-Vajanský. From 1918 to 1921 he was head of Czech military mission in Washington, D. C.^[3]
4. Vladimír Ladislav Dionýz Svetozárov Hurban (1883-1949), Slovak military man and Czechoslovak diplomat; he served as Chargé d'affaires in Egypt from 1924 to 1930, Envoy in Stockholm to Sweden, Norway and Lithuania from 1930 to 1937, and Envoy in the US and Cuba from 1939 to 1946.

Sources

1. Rechcigl Jr, Miloslav (10 November 2016). Encyclopedia of Bohemian and Czech-American Biography. AuthorHouse. p. 387. ISBN 978-1-5246-1987-9. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
2. Ferdinand Veverka
3. Vladimír Ladislav Dionýz Svetozárov Hurban
4. Juraj Slávik
5. Vladimír Outrata
6. Ivan Roháľ-Iľkiv
7. Dušan Spáčil
8. Jaroslav Zantovsky
9. Stanislav Suja
10. Miroslav Houštecký
11. Chief of Protocol,