Jan Ruml

Jan Ruml
Ruml in 2019
Minister of the Interior
In office
2 July 1992 – 7 November 1997
Prime MinisterVáclav Klaus
Preceded byTomáš Sokol
Succeeded byJindřich Vodička
Senator from Prague 6
In office
21 November 1998 – 21 November 2004
Preceded byJan Koukal
Succeeded byKarel Schwarzenberg
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
1 June 1996 – 19 June 1998
Member of the Federal Assembly
In office
6 June 1992 – 31 December 1992
Leader of the US–DEU
In office
22 February 1998 – 1 December 1999
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byKarel Kühnl
Personal details
Born (1953-03-05) 5 March 1953 (age 73)
Prague, Czechoslovakia
PartyOF (1989–1991)
ODS (1991–1998)
US–DEU (1998–2004)
SZ (2010–2014)
EducationUniversity of West Bohemia

Jan Ruml (born 5 March 1953 in Prague) is a Czech politician who was interior minister from 1992 to 1997.

Government career

Before becoming Interior Minister, Jan Ruml served as deputy Interior Minister in 1991.

Jan Ruml announced his resignation as Interior Minister on 21 October 1997. He then challenged Václav Klaus for the leadership of the Civic Democratic Party over a party funding scandal. However Klaus won with 72% of the vote at a party conference on the 14 December 1997.

Freedom Union

Jan Ruml became leader of a breakaway party called Freedom Union, which was founded on the 17 January 1998. He led the party into the 1998 election, where the party won 8.6% of the vote and 19 seats and went into opposition.

Jan Ruml announced his resignation as leader of the Freedom Union on the 1 December 1999.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States 1999 (4th ed.). Routledge. 1 October 1998. p. 992. ISBN 1857430581. Archived from the original on 27 September 2024. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
  2. ↑ Barrett, Amy (23 August 1991). "Czechs and Slovaks Cheer Soviet Democracy, Reaffirm Their Own". The Christian Science Monitor. Archived from the original on 9 March 2016 – via Questia.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Jeffries, Ian (2002). Eastern Europe at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: A Guide to the Economies in Transition. London: Routledge. pp. 163–170. Archived from the original on 2016-03-27. Retrieved 2017-09-01 – via Questia. [ISBN missing]
  4. ↑ Shepherd, Robin H E (2000). Czechoslovakia: The Velvet Revolution and Beyond. Houndmills: Macmillan. p. 107. Archived from the original on 2016-03-10. Retrieved 2017-09-01 – via Questia.[ISBN missing]