Antonín Janoušek

Antonín Janoušek (22 August 1877 – 30 March 1941) was a Czech journalist and communist who was the leader of the short-lived Slovak Soviet Republic.

Originally an engine fitter, in 1895, Janoušek became a member of the Czechoslavonic Social Democratic Workers' Party.

In 1919, Janoušek led the Czech and Slovak section at the central committee of the Hungarian Communist Party.

He was the only “chairman of the revolutionary committee” (predseda revolučného výboru) of the short-lived Slovak Soviet Republic, proclaimed in Prešov on 20 June 1919.

In 1990, his ashes were moved to Olšany Cemetery, together with those of about 20 other communist leaders which had also originally been placed in the Jan Žižka National Monument.

Memorial plaque of Janoušek in Kladno in Unhošťská street, by Ladislav Novák
Olšany Cemetery , grave of Czech Communist politicians whose urns had originally been kept at the National Monument at Vítkov