Bohumil Jílek

Bohumil Jílek (17 October 1892, in Deštná – 3 August 1963, in New York City) was a Czechoslovak politician and General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from 1925 to 1929.

Deposed by Klement Gottwald, he joined a new parliamentary club called Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (Leninists).^[1]

Before he worked as journalist. After 1948, he left for France, and later to the United States.

His father Jan Jílek was a local policeman; his mother Františka née Vosolová.

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• http://www.libri.cz/databaze/kdo20/list.php?od=j&start=21&count=20 Archived 2011-06-12 at the Wayback Machine
• http://www.psp.cz/eknih/1925ns/ps/tisky/t0758_00.htm