Edvard Beneš, Czech academic and politician, 2nd President of Czechoslovakia (born 1884)

Edvard Beneš

Czechoslovak politician (1884–1948)

Edvard Beneš was a Czech politician and statesman who served as the president of Czechoslovakia from 1935 to 1938, and again from 1939 to 1948. During the first six years of his second stint, he led the Czechoslovak government-in-exile during World War II.

List of presidents of Czechoslovakia

The president of Czechoslovakia was the head of state of Czechoslovakia, from the creation of the First Czechoslovak Republic in 1918 until the dissolution of the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic on 1 January 1993.