Ministry of Defence (Czechoslovakia)

Logo of Czechoslovak Army before 1961

The Ministry of National Defense of the Czechoslovak Republic (Czech: Ministerstvo národní obrany Československé republiky, MNO ČSR; later MNO ČSSR^[1] and MNO ČSFR^[2]) refers to the defence ministry which was responsible for defense of Czechoslovakia during its existence, from 1918 to 1992.

List of ministers

Ministers of Defense of the First Czechoslovak Republic (1918–1938)

#	Name	Image	Born–Died	Rank	Start	End	Note
1	Václav Klofáč		1868–1942	No military rank	14 November 1918	24 May 1920
2	Vlastimil Tusar		1880–1924	No military rank	25 May 1920	15 July 1920
3	Ivan Markovič		1888–1944	No military rank	16 July 1920	14 September 1920
4	Otakar Husák		1885–1964	General	15 September 1920	25 September 1921
5	František Udržal		1866–1938	No military rank	26 September 1921	8 December 1925	1st Term
6	Jiří Stříbrný		1880–1955	No military rank	9 December 1925	17 March 1926
7	Jan Syrový		1888–1970	General of the Army	18 March 1926	11 October 1926	1st Term
8	František Udržal		1866–1938	No military rank	12 October 1926	15 September 1929	2nd Term
9	Karel Viškovský		1868–1932	No military rank	16 September 1929	28 October 1932
10	Bohumír Bradáč		1881–1935	No military rank	29 October 1932	3 June 1935
11	František Machník		1886–1967	No military rank	3 June 1935	21 September 1938

Minister of Defense of the Second Czechoslovak Republic (1938–1939)

#	Name	Image	Born–Died	Rank	Start	End	Note
1	Jan Syrový		1888–1970	General of the Army	22 September 1938	27 April 1939	2nd Term

Ministers of Defense of the Czechoslovak government-in-exile (1940–1945)

#	Name	Image	Born–Died	Rank	Start	End	Note
1	Sergej Ingr		1894–1956	General of the Army	21 July 1940	19 September 1944
2	Jan Masaryk		1886–1948	No military rank	September 1944	3 April 1945

Minister of Defense of the Third Czechoslovak Republic (1945–1948)

#	Name	Image	Born–Died	Rank	Start	End	Note
1	Ludvík Svoboda		1895–1979	General of the Army	4 April 1945	7 June 1948	Continued below

Ministers of Defense during the Communist Era (Czechoslovak Republic and Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, 1948–1989)

#	Name	Image	Born–Died	Rank	Start	End	Note
1	Ludvík Svoboda		1895–1979	General of the Army	7 June 1948	24 April 1950	Continued from above
2	Alexej Čepička		1910–1990	General of the Army	25 April 1950	24 April 1956
3	Bohumír Lomský		1914–1982	General of the Army	25 April 1956	23 April 1968
4	Martin Dzúr		1919–1985	General of the Army	24 April 1968	11 January 1985	Died four days after stepped down as Defense Minister
5	Milán Václavík		1928–2007	General of the Army	11 January 1985	3 December 1989

Ministers of Defense of the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic (1989–1992)

#	Name	Image	Born–Died	Rank	Start	End	Note
1	Miroslav Vacek		1935–	General of the Army	4 December 1989	17 October 1990
2	Luboš Dobrovský		1932–	No military rank	18 October 1990	1 July 1992
3	Imrich Andrejčák		1941–	General	2 July 1992	31 December 1992

Notes

↑ Abbreviation Československá socialistická republika ("Czechoslovak Socialist Republic"), state name between 1960–1990
↑ Abbreviation Česká a Slovenská Federativní Republika ("Czech and Slovak Federative Republic"), state name between 1990–1992

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Ministers of Defence of Czechoslovakia

First Republic	Václav Klofáč Ivan Markovič Otakar Husák František Udržal Jiří Stříbrný Jan Syrový František Udržal Karel Viškovský Bohumír Bradáč František Machník

Second Republic	Jan Syrový

Transition to Communism	Ludvík Svoboda

Communist era	Ludvík Svoboda Alexej Čepička Bohumír Lomský Martin Dzúr Milán Václavík

Czech and Slovak Federal Republic	Miroslav Vacek Luboš Dobrovský Imrich Andrejčák

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