Edvard Beneš

Edvard Beneš

Edvard Beneš (28 May 1884 in Kožlany – 3 September 1948 in Sezimovo Ústí) was the second president of Czechoslovakia (1935 - 1938 and 1945 - 1948). During World War II, he led the government-in-exile in England (1939 - 1945). The next president was Klement Gottwald, a communist.

Edvard Beneš Media

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  Time cover, 23 March 1925

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  Beneš with several other Little Entente leaders in Bucharest, Romania in 1936. From left to right: Prince Michael (Rom.), Beneš, King Carol II (Rom.), Prince Regent Paul (Yug.), and Prince Nicholas (Rom.).

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  Adolf Hitler greets British prime minister Neville Chamberlain, 24 September 1938.

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  Beneš posing with members of the Czechoslovak Air Force, recently returned to the United Kingdom from the Middle East.

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  26 Gwendolen Avenue in Putney, where Beneš lived between 1938 and 1940.

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  Edvard Beneš (right) gives medals to soldiers, including the later Operation Anthropoid assassins Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš, 1940.

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  Beneš returning to Prague after the Prague uprising, 16 May 1945.

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  Communist Party leader Klement Gottwald, whose coup ousted Beneš for the second time.

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  Statue of Beneš in front of Czernin Palace, headquarters of the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Prague.