Jaroslav Kabeš (18 June 1896 – 15 August 1964) was a Czechoslovak economist and politician who served as Minister of Finance and Director of the National Bank of Czechoslovakia.

[2] In the governments of Antonín Zápotocký and Viliam Široký, Kabeš held the post of Minister of Finance from April 4, 1949 to September 14, 1953 and as such was largely responsible for the preparation and implementation of the currency reform in 1953.

From 1925 to 1926, in the journal Komunistická revue, he published an essay on the philosophical development of the young Karl Marx (pseud.

[3] Already in 1926, he wrote about the need to distinguish between bourgeois democracy and fascist dictatorship in order to successfully organise the working class against them ("Kolem fašismu", 1926).

1-2, 1944-1945) and published several collections of his poems ("Noc na hoře Oliv - Hlas hořícího keře", 1943, "Budova časů", 1945).