Ivan Knotek
Ivan Knotek is a Slovak politician who served as Politburo member and prime minister from 1988 to 1989 of the Slovak Socialist Republic.Biography
Knotek was born on 26 August 1936. He was a member of both the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and the Slovak Communist Party. He became a member of the Czech Communist Party's Politburo in April 1988. He was made chairman of the Politburo's two commissions, agriculture and food commission and youth work commission. He retained his Politburo membership in the reshuffle of 10–11 October 1988.
He was also named prime minister on 12 October 1988, replacing Peter Colotka in the post. With this appointment he automatically became the deputy federal prime minister along with the Czech Prime Minister Ladislav Adamec. Knotek's tenure as prime minister ended on 22 June 1989 and he was succeeded by Pavel Hrivnák in the post. Then he served as the Communist Party's secretary for economic affairs. In a November 1989 reshuffle, Knotek retained his post at the politburo.
