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Bohuslav Vrbenský (29 March 1882 – 25 November 1944) was a Czech politician, physician and publicist. A leading anarchist for most of his career, he later became a prominent member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
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Bohuslav Vrbenský (29 March 1882 – 25 November 1944) was a Czech politician, physician and publicist. A leading anarchist for most of his career, he later became a prominent member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
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Biography Vrbenský was born in the village of Opočnice in Bohemia, Austria-Hungary. He studied at the Czech Medical Faculty in Prague, graduating in 1909. From 1904 to 1906 he served as chairman of the Czech Students' Union. Before World War I he was one of the leaders of the Czech anarcho-communist movement and was one of the founders of the Federation of Czech Anarchists. From 1914 to 1917 he was interned by the Austrian authorities. In April 1918, he managed to convert the majority of Czech anarchists to the Czechoslovak Socialist Party. He served in the Revolutionary National Assembly from 1918 to 1920. In the parliamentary elections of 1920, he won a seat in the National Assembly for the Socialists and served as chairman of their parliamentary group. He also held numerous government positions. In 1918–1919, he served as Minister of Food in the government of Karel Kramář, in 1920 he was Minister of Public Works in the second government of Vlastimil Tusar, and in 1921–1922 he held the post of Minister of Public Health and Physical Education in the government of Edvard Beneš. In 1923, together with other former anarchists, he voted in the National Assembly with communist deputies…