Václav Vacek

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Václav Vacek


Mayor of Prague
In office 2 May 1945 – August 1945
Preceded by	Alois Říha
Succeeded by	Petr Zenkl
In office 1 July 1946 – December 1954
Preceded by	Petr Zenkl
Succeeded by	Adolf Svoboda

Personal details
Born	(1877-09-11)11 September 1877 Libochovice, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic)
Died	18 January 1960(1960-01-18) (aged 82) Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)
Political party	ČSSD (before 1921) KSČ (1921–1960)
Alma mater	Charles University
Profession	Writer, translator, journalist, lawyer

Václav Vacek (11 September 1877 – 18 January 1960) was a Czech writer and communist politician. He served as a Senator in the National Assembly of Czechoslovakia and after the Prague Uprising as the Mayor of Prague.^[1] He was also a founding member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia after the schism in Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers' Party in 1921.^[2]