Jiří Dienstbier, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jiří Dienstbier

Czech journalist and politician

Date of Birth: 20-Apr-1937

Place of Birth: Kladno, Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 08-Jan-2011

Profession: writer, politician, journalist

Nationality: Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Jirí Dienstbier (20 April 1937, in Kladno – 8 January 2011, in Prague) was a Czech politician and journalist.
He was one of Czechoslovakia's most respected foreign correspondents before being fired after the Prague Spring.
Unable to have a livelihood as a journalist, he worked as a janitor for the next two decades.
During this time, he secretly revived the suppressed Lidové noviny newspaper.After the end of communist rule in 1989, he became the country's first non-Communist foreign minister in four decades, a post he held until 1992.
In 2008 he was elected to the Czech Senate for the Kladno region.