Tomáš Březina

Czech politician and businessman

Tomáš Březina


Member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic
In office 1 June 1996 – 12 February 1998

Personal details
Born	(1957-02-21) February 21, 1957 (age 67) Prague, Czechoslovakia
Political party	Freedom Union – Democratic Union
Occupation	Politician, businessman

Tomáš Březina (born 21 February 1957 in Prague) is a Czech politician and businessman.

Personal life

Březina was born in Prague and raised in Husinec and Nalžovské Hory. He has three children.^[1]

Career

Březina is founder and former director of BEST, one of the leading domestic manufacturers of concrete building elements.^[2] He is nicknamed the "concrete king"^[3] or "concrete Bata".^[4]^[5] In the years 1996–1998, he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic for the Civic Democratic Party, later for the Freedom Union.^[6] He founded and leads the Czech Union of Concrete Workers, before that he led the Association of Garden Architecture Manufacturers.^[7] Březina was a candidate in 2023 Czech presidential election, but due to failure to meet the legal conditions for candidacy, he was disqualified from the election.^[8]

References

^ "Ing. Tomáš Březina". 1000leaders.cz. Archived from the original on 20 February 2014.
^ Srpová, Jitka (2010). Základy podnikání : teoretické poznatky, příklady a zkušenosti českých podnikatelů (1st ed.). Praha: Grada. pp. 413–423. ISBN 978-80-247-3339-5.
^ "Betonový král prezidentem? Miliardář Březina oznámil kandidaturu na Hrad". Lidovky.cz (in Czech). 8 April 2022. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
^ "NEBOJÍ SE A NEKRADE! Ing. Tomáši Březinovi, majiteli společnosti Best, přezdívají přátelé Betonový Baťa. A nás zajímalo, proč" (PDF). CZECH TOP 100 FÓRUM (in Czech). Retrieved 17 November 2022.
^ Srpová, Jitka; Řehoř, Václav, eds. (2010). Základy podnikání (in Czech). Grada Publishing a.s. p. 416. ISBN 9788024733395. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
^ Kdo je kdo : osobnosti české současnosti : 5000 životopisů = Who is who. Praha: Agentura Kdo je kdo. 2002. p. 62. ISBN 80-902586-7-0.
^ "Podnikatelem roku zvolen Březina". ČT24 (in Czech). Czech Television. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
^ "Ministerstvo vnitra pustí do bitvy o Hrad devět kandidátů. Janeček neprošel" (in Czech). Novinky.cz. 25 November 2022. Retrieved 2 December 2022.