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Petr Zenkl (13 June 1884 – 2 November 1975) was a Czech politician, government minister, mayor of Prague, chairman of the Czechoslovak National Social Party (1945–1948), deputy prime minister of Czechoslovakia (1946–1948) and the chairman of exile Council of Free Czechoslovakia (1949–1974).
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Petr Zenkl (13 June 1884 – 2 November 1975) was a Czech politician, government minister, mayor of Prague, chairman of the Czechoslovak National Social Party (1945–1948), deputy prime minister of Czechoslovakia (1946–1948) and the chairman of exile Council of Free Czechoslovakia (1949–1974).
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Biography Petr Zenkl was born as the eighth son of a small businessman, originally a tailor, in the South Bohemian town of Tábor. All of the children helped their father in his business and strived to earn money. The father was Czech patriot, thus the children joined the Sokol movement. Zenkl studied at the gymnasium (grammar school) in Tábor and later graduated from the Philosophy Faculty of the Charles University in Prague and in 1907 gained a doctorate. During his studies in Tábor he met a daughter of his history teacher, 16-year-old Pavla, and married her six years later in 1909. From 1911 Zenkl was active in local politics in Prague, more precisely in Karlín, which was until 1921 an independent town before its incorporation to Prague. In 1911 he became a member of the Karlín town council, and in 1919 became a mayor of Karlín. He lost his position when Karlín was incorporated into Prague in 1921–1922. As a member of the Prague city council, Zenkl was installed in 1937 to the position of Prague's mayor, replacing his successful predecessor, dr. Karel Baxa. Shortly after the Nazi German occupation of Prague (March 1939) Zenkl was arrested and jailed in…
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Works T. G. Masaryk and the Idea of European and World Federation (1955) Masarykova Československá republika (Masaryk's Czechoslovak Republic) (1955) T. G. Masaryk and the Idea of European and World Federation (1955) Communist Seizure of Power and the Press 1945-48 (1962) A history of the Czechoslovak Republic, 1918-1948 (1973)