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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  Triumvirate of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Milan Rastislav Štefánik, and Edvard Beneš.

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  Time cover, 23 March 1925

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  Beneš (center) with the Czechoslovak delegation at the Locarno Treaties, 1925 Autochrome by Roger Dumas

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  Beneš with several other Little Entente leaders in Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania, in 1936. From left to right: Crown Prince Michael of Romania; President Beneš; King Carol II of Romania; Prince Regent Paul of Yugoslavia; and Prince Nicholas of Romania.

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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.