Josef Frank (politician)

Josef Frank (25 February 1909, Prostějov – 3 December 1952, Prague) was a Czechoslovakian Communist politician.

He was subsequently arrested and sentenced to death by hanging in the Slánský trial, a show trial orchestrated from Moscow.

[2] In 1968 he was made a Hero of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic in memoriam.

[3] Frank is the central character of Howard Brenton's 1976 play Weapons of Happiness, in which he is imagined not dead, but rather living in exile.

[4] This biographical article about a Czech politician is a stub.