Karel Urbánek

For the Czech football player, see Karel Urbánek (footballer).

Karel Urbánek

First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
In office 24 November 1989 – 20 December 1989
Preceded by	Miloš Jakeš
Succeeded by	End of Communist rule
Personal details
Born	(1941-03-22) 22 March 1941 Bojkovice, Moravia
Political party	Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (since 1990)
Other political affiliations	Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (until 1990)
Profession	Railway worker Entrepreneur

Karel Urbánek (born 22 March 1941 in Bojkovice, Moravia) is a retired Czech politician. He was the last Communist leader of Czechoslovakia during the Velvet Revolution, between November and December 1989.

A former Bojkovice railway station manager, he replaced Miloš Jakeš as Secretary General of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia after a swift election on 24 November 1989. The only important decision he made during his very short term was to cancel the clause of the Constitution which gave the Communist Party a monopoly of power, though Communist rule had effectively ended with Jakeš' resignation in the wake of the Velvet Revolution.^[1]

References

↑ "Karel Urbánek" (in Czech). Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů. Retrieved 27 February 2010.

First Secretaries of the Central Committee of the KSČ

Klement Gottwald Antonín Novotný Alexander Dubček Gustáv Husák Miloš Jakeš Karel Urbánek

Leaders of the ruling parties of the Eastern Bloc

Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Party of Labour of Albania	Enver Hoxha Ramiz Alia

Bulgarian Communist Party	Georgi Dimitrov Valko Chervenkov Todor Zhivkov Petar Mladenov

Communist Party of Czechoslovakia	Klement Gottwald Antonín Novotny Alexander Dubček Gustáv Husák Miloš Jakeš Karel Urbánek Ladislav Adamec

Socialist Unity Party of Germany	Walter Ulbricht Erich Honecker Egon Krenz

Hungarian Working People's Party Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party	Mátyás Rákosi Ernő Gerő János Kádár Károly Grósz Rezső Nyers

Polish United Workers' Party	Władysław Gomułka Bolesław Bierut Edward Ochab Władysław Gomułka Edward Gierek Stanisław Kania Wojciech Jaruzelski Mieczysław Rakowski

Romanian Communist Party	Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej Nicolae Ceaușescu

League of Communists of Yugoslavia	Đuro Đaković Milan Gorkić Josip Broz Tito (1980–1990, rotating leadership)

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