Antonín Novotný

Czech politician (1904-1975) · Politicians · Died at 70

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A life in dates

1975Died28 January 19751955Order of Klement GottwaldAward1954Order of Building of the Socialist HomelandAward1949Order of February 25, 1st classAward1904Born10 December 1904

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Antonin Novotny during a United Nations meeting in New York City, September 1960

Awards

Order of Klement Gottwald1955

Order of Building of the Socialist Homeland1954

Order of February 25, 1st class1949

Order of the Nile

Czechoslovak War Cross 1939-1945

Hero of Socialist Labour of Czechoslovakia

Order of the Queen of Sheba

Order of Pahlavi

Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta

Order of February 25

Star of the Republic of Indonesia

Order of the Yugoslav Star

Royal Order of Cambodia

In common with Antonín

Valentina TereshkovaBoth received Hero of Socialist Labour of Czechoslovakia

Miloš JakešBoth received Hero of Socialist Labour of Czechoslovakia

Yuri GagarinBoth received Hero of Socialist Labour of Czechoslovakia

Politicians born in the 1900s 3

José Figueres Ferrer55.1

Ernst vom Rath55.0

Andrei Grechko55.4

About this person

Antonín Josef Novotný was a Czechoslovak politician who served as the President of Czechoslovakia from 1957 to 1968, and as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from 1953 to 1968. An ardent hardliner, Novotný was forced to yield the reins of power to Alexander Dubček during the short-lived reform movement of 1968.