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Edvard Beneš

Edvard Beneš was a Czech politician and statesman who served as the president of Czechoslovakia from 1935 to 1938, and again from 1939 to 1948. During the first six years of his second stint, he led the Czechoslovak government-in-exile during World War II.

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sports · Czechoslovak politician (1884–1948) · lecturer · politician · association football player · diplomat · sociologist · teacher · university teacher · head of government · author · foreign minister · also Edvard Beneš, Edvard Benes, Edward Beneš, Edward Benes, Beneš

Born 28 May 1884 · Died 3 September 1948 · Q152274

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Jun 1947Award
Won Zborov Commemorative Medal (1947).
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Awarded honorary citizen of Kladno (1946).
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1948· 1 entry

Sep 3, 1948Documented record86% confidence

Died 1948-09-03.

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1947· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1947Documented record84% confidence

Won Zborov Commemorative Medal (1947).

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1947Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

And seeing the undoing of his life's work left him completely broken

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1946· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1946Documented record84% confidence

Awarded honorary citizen of Kladno (1946).

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1945· 4 entries

Jun 15, 1945Documented record84% confidence

Awarded honorary citizen of Chrudim (1945).

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Jun 15, 1945Documented record84% confidence

Awarded honorary citizenship presented by Semily (1945).

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Jun 15, 1945Documented record84% confidence

Awarded honorary citizen of Nové Město na Moravě (1945).

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Jan 1, 1945Documented record84% confidence

Career landmark: President of Czechoslovakia (1945–1948).

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1942· 2 entries

1942Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Beneš finally persuaded the Foreign Office to issue a statement saying Britain had revoked the Munich Agreement and supported the return of the Sudetenland to Czechoslovakia

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1942Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Stated the compulsory population exchange between Greece and Turkey in 1922–23 was his model for solving the problem of the Sudetenland, though unlike the Greek-Turkish population exchange, he proposed financial compe

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1941· 1 entry

1941Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Beneš and František Moravec planned Operation Anthropoid to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich, a high-ranking German official who was responsible for suppressing Czech culture, and for deporting and executing members of the

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1939· 2 entries

1939Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

France launched its unsuccessful Saar Offensive in western Germany

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1939Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

And 1940, Chamberlain repeatedly made public statements that Britain was willing to make an "honorable peace" with a post-Nazi Germany, which meant the Sudetenland would remain within the Reich

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1938· 4 entries

1938Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Which he viewed as treasonous, and during his exile in London had decided that when Czechoslovakia was reestablished, he was going to expel all of the Sudeten Germans into Germany

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1938Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Which resulted in his government's exile in the United Kingdom

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1938Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Czechoslovakia would have faced a similar destruction to that suffered by Poland the following year

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1938Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

With the former presidential chancellor Jaromír Smutný writing: "He would like to know when, by whom and to whom was the offer made"

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1937· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1937Documented record84% confidence

Awarded honorary doctor of Comenius University (1937).

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Jun 15, 1937Documented record84% confidence

Awarded honorary doctorate of the Masaryk University (1937).

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1936· 3 entries

Jun 15, 1936Documented record84% confidence

Awarded honorary citizen of Brno (1936).

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Jun 15, 1936Documented record84% confidence

Awarded honorary citizen of Moravské Budějovice (1936).

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Jun 15, 1936Documented record84% confidence

Awarded honorary citizen of Chrudim (1936).

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1935· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1935Documented record84% confidence

Awarded honorary citizen of Třebíč (1935).

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Jan 1, 1935Documented record84% confidence

Career landmark: President of Czechoslovakia (1935–1938).

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1934· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1934Documented record84% confidence

Awarded honorary citizenship presented by Sezimovo Ústí (1934).

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1927· 1 entry

1927Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Beneš was initiated in freemasonry at the Ian Amos Komensky Lodge No

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1922· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1922Documented record84% confidence

Awarded honorary doctorate from the University of Strasbourg (1922).

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1922Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

At Locarno in 1925, at The Hague in 1930 and at Lausanne in 1932

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1921· 4 entries

Jun 15, 1921Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Knight grand cross of the order of the crown of Italy (1921).

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Jun 15, 1921Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Order of the Crown of Romania (1921).

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Jun 15, 1921Documented record84% confidence

Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris (1921).

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Jan 1, 1921Documented record84% confidence

Career landmark: Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia (1921–1922).

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1920· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1920Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Order of St. Sava (1920).

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1919· 3 entries

Jun 15, 1919Documented record84% confidence

Awarded honorary citizen of Prague (1919).

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Jun 15, 1919Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Czechoslovak War Cross 1918 (1919).

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1919Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

His decision to pull demoralized Czechoslovak Legions out of the Russian Civil War was denounced by Kramář as a betrayal

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1918· 1 entry

Jan 1, 1918Documented record84% confidence

Career landmark: Minister of Foreign Affairs (Czechoslovakia) (1918–1935).

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1907· 1 entry

1907Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Beneš published over 200 articles in the Czech social democratic newspaper Právo lidu containing his impressions of life in Western Europe

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1884· 2 entries

May 28, 1884Documented record86% confidence

Born 1884-05-28.

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1884Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

In the town of Kožlany, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (Now Kožlany, Czech Republic)

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