Luboš Dobrovský

Luboš Dobrovský (born Luboš Hamerschlag, 3 February 1932 – 30 January 2020)^[1] was a Czech journalist and politician,^[2] who served as Czechoslovak Minister of Defence.

Luboš Dobrovský
Minister of Defence of Czechoslovakia
In office 18 October 1990 – 2 July 1992
Prime Minister	Marián Čalfa
Preceded by	Miroslav Vacek
Succeeded by	Imrich Andrejčák
Czech Republic Ambassador to Russia
In office 1996–2000
President	Václav Havel
Preceded by	Rudolf Slánský Jr.
Succeeded by	Jaroslav Bašta
Personal details
Born	Luboš Hamerschlag (1932-02-03)3 February 1932 Kolín, Czechoslovakia
Died	30 January 2020(2020-01-30) (aged 87) Prague, Czech Republic

Biography

Dobrovsky's father Ludvík Hamerschlag was Jewish. Deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in September 1943, he did not survive the war. Dobrovský and his mother spent the war on a farm in Ohrada, whilst she remarried the officer Josef Dobrovský afterwards.^[3]

Dobrovský was member of Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and journalist of the Czechoslovak Radio between 1959 and 1968.^[4] He signed Charta 77 in the 1970s and served as a spokesman of the Civic Forum in 1989. Between October 1990 and June 1992, Dobrovský was the Czechoslovak minister of defence, after which he served as director of the Office of the Czech President Václav Havel. Between 1996 and 2000, Dobrovský was the Czech Ambassador in Moscow.^[5]

Dobrovský died on 30 January 2020 at the age of 87. His cause of death was unknown.^[1]