Jaroslav Kubečka

Jaroslav Kubečka was a Slovak politician. A member of the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia, he served as the last Minister of Economy of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic from July to December 1992 and was of Slovakia from March to November 1993.

Biography

Jaroslav Kubečka was born on 27 October 1934 in the village of Turá Lúka, which became a part of the town of Myjava in the 1980s. In 1958 he graduated from the Bratislava University of Economics and Business. He entered politics in 1989. Between 1990 and 1992, he served as Deputy Minister of Industry and later Deputy Minister of Economy in the governments of Milan Čič, Vladimír Mečiar, and Ján Čarnogurský. In 1992, he was nominated by the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia party to the federal government of Czechoslovakia as Minister of Economy and was also tasked with overseeing the Ministry for Strategic Planning. After the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, he became the first Minister of Economy of the independent Slovak Republic.

Death

Kubečka died on 19 April 2025, at the age of 90.