Milan Hodža
| Milan Hodža | |
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| Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia | |
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In office 5 November 1935 – 22 September 1938 |
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| Preceded by | Jan Malypetr |
| Succeeded by | Jan Syrový |
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In office 14 December 1935 – 18 December 1935 |
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| Preceded by | Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk |
| Succeeded by | Edvard Beneš |
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1 February 1878 Szucsány, Turóc County, Kingdom of Hungary (now Slovakia) |
| Died | 27 June 1944 (aged 66) Clearwater, Florida, United States |
| Political party | Slovak National Party, Agrarian Party of Czechoslovakia |
| Religion | Lutheran |
Milan Hodža (1 February 1878 in Sučany (Then Szucsány), Turóc County, Kingdom of Hungary (present-day Slovakia) – 27 June 1944 in Clearwater, Florida, United States) was a prominent Slovak politician and journalist, serving from 1935 to 1938 as the Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia. As a proponent of regional integration, he was famous for his attempts to establish a democratic federation of Central European states.
His son was Fedor Hodža (a politician) and he was the nephew of Michal Miloslav Hodža (a politician and poet).
Milan Hodža was born in the Lutheran parish of Sučany, in the Turóc County of the Kingdom of Hungary (present-day Slovakia). He studied at gymnasiums (high-schools) in Banská Bystrica (1888-1890), Sopron (1890-1894) and in Sibiu (present-day Romania), where he passed in 1896 graduation exams and at universities in Budapest and Vienna. He started his career of a journalist in Budapest, in 1897. He edited and founded the newspaper Slovenský denník (1900–1901) and the weekly Slovenský týždenník (1903–1914). From 1916 to 1918, he was editor of the Austrian press office in Vienna.
As a member of the Slovak National Party - at that time the only Slovak party in Austria-Hungary - he became the ideological leader and founder of Slovak agrarianism. Since the Slovak National Party did not endorse his agrarian program, he decided to create his own political party, but World War I prevented him from this. Later, he also became an important representative of the Czechoslovak and international agrarian movement between the two world wars: He founded and was a member of the presidium of the International Agrarian Bureau - an institution of European agrarian parties.
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