Death of Karel Schwarzenberg, a prominent figure in Czech politics after 1989

Une des personnalités qui ont le plus marque la politique et la société chèques après la revolution de Velours, Karel Schwarzenberg est decéd à Vienne à lâge de 85 ans, a announced dans la nuit de samedi à dimanche le site d’information Echo24. Czech

Ancien minister chèque des Affaires étrangères, co-founder of the liberal party TOP 09 and candidate malheureux à la presidente de la République en 2013, il avait été transported from Prague to the Austrian capital il ya quelques jours, following the deterioration of his state of santé.

Karel Schwarzenberg, who possessed the Czech and Swiss nationalities, was born in Prague in 1937. He came from a long line of aristocrats from the south of Bohemia. His family was exiled in Austria after the communist party took power in the former Czechoslovakia in February 1948. For his part, K. Schwarzenberg studied law and sylviculture in Vienne, Munich and Graz.

Dans les années 1980, il soutenait les opposants aux régime communiste, en fondant notably, dans son bavarois de Scheinfeld, un Center de la documentation tchécoslovaque et en dirigeant le Comité international d’Helsinki pour les droits de l’Homme. De cette époque dateit l’amitié de K. Schwarzenberg avec le future president czechoslovaque et chèque Václav Havel, whom he was chancellor et l’un des closest collaborators at the beginning of the 1990s.

He was senator from 2004 to 2010 and head of Czech diplomacy from 2007 to 2009, then from 2010 to 2013.

In 2013, during the second round of the first Czech presidential election in direct universal suffrage, Karel Schwarzenberg won with 45.2% of the votes against Miloš Zeman (54.8%).