Dagmar Burešová

Czech minister of justice, member of Czech National Council and attorney (1929-2018)

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Lived 1929–2018, aged 89

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1929–2018
Aged 89
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Dagmar Burešová was a Czech lawyer and politician. She specialised in labour law. She was known for her defence of Libuše Palachová, the mother of Jan Palach, a young man that self immolated to protest the Soviet absorption of his country, a drama featured in the 2013 miniseries Burning Bush. As a politician, Burešová served as the first Minister of Justice of Czechoslovakia, after the Velvet Revolution. She was the chair of the Czech National Council from 1990 to 1992.