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Apr 20, 1937 Kladno, Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic Died on 08 Jan 2011 (aged 73)
Czech journalist and politician
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About Jiří Dienstbier
- Jirí Dienstbier (20 April 1937, in Kladno – 8 January 2011, in Prague) was a Czech politician and journalist.
- He was one of Czechoslovakia's most respected foreign correspondents before being fired after the Prague Spring.
- Unable to have a livelihood as a journalist, he worked as a janitor for the next two decades.
- During this time, he secretly revived the suppressed Lidové noviny newspaper.After the end of communist rule in 1989, he became the country's first non-Communist foreign minister in four decades, a post he held until 1992.
- In 2008 he was elected to the Czech Senate for the Kladno region.
