Jan Ruml

Jan Ruml
Minister of the Interior
In office 2 July 1992 – 7 November 1997
Prime Minister	Václav Klaus
Preceded by	Tomáš Sokol
Succeeded by	Jindřich Vodička
Senator from Prague 6
In office 21 November 1998 – 21 November 2004
Preceded by	Jan Koukal
Succeeded by	Karel 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 by	Position established
Succeeded by	Karel Kühnl
Personal details
Born	(1953-03-05) 5 March 1953 (age 71)[1] Prague, Czechoslovakia[1]
Political party	OF (1989–1991) ODS (1991–1998) US–DEU (1998–2004) SZ (2010–2014)
Alma mater	University of West Bohemia

Jan Ruml (born 5 March 1953 in Prague^[1]) 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.^[2]

Jan Ruml announced his resignation as Interior Minister on 21 October 1997.^[3] He then challenged Václav Klaus for the leadership of the Civic Democratic Party over a party funding scandal.^[3][4] However Klaus won with 72% of the vote at a party conference on the 14 December 1997.^[3]

Freedom Union

Jan Ruml became leader of a breakaway party called Freedom Union, which was founded on the 17 January 1998.^[3] He led the party into the 1998 election, where the party won 8.6% of the vote and 19 seats and went into opposition.^[3]

Jan Ruml announced his resignation as leader of the Freedom Union on the 1 December 1999.^[3]

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Ministers of the Interior of the Czech Republic

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• Vodička
• Svoboda
• Grulich
• Gross
• Bublan
• Langer
• Pecina
• John
• Kubice
• Pecina
• Chovanec
• Metnar
• Hamáček
• Rakušan