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Jan Fischer
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Key facts
- President
- Václav Klaus
- Preceded by
- Mirek Topolánek
- Succeeded by
- Petr Nečas
- Prime minister
- Jiří Rusnok
- Born
- ( 1951-01-02 ) 2 January 1951 (age 75) , Prague , Czechoslovakia
- Party
- Communist Party (1980–1989) , Independent (1989–present)
- Spouse s
- Ivana Janecká ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1975 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1987 ) , Dana Ulrichová ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1988 )
- Alma mater
- University of Economics
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jan
- Family name
- Fischer
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Czech Republic
- Place of birth
- Prague
- Occupation
- economist
- Political party
- Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
- Languages spoken
- Czech
- Native language
- Czech
- Religion
- Judaism
- Image
- Jan Fischer 2009 (cropped).jpg
- Number of children
- 3
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- Commons category
- Jan Fischer
- date of birth
- 1951-01-02
- name in native language
- Jan Fischer
- P10632
- Jan Fischer
- candidacy in election
- 2013 Czech presidential election
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Encyclopedic overview
Jan Fischer ( Czech pronunciation: [ˈjan ˈfɪʃɛr]; born 2 January 1951) is a Czech politician who served as the prime minister of the Czech Republic from April 2009 to July 2010, heading a caretaker government. Later he was the minister of Finance from July 2013 to January 2014 in another interim government of Jiří Rusnok.
A lifelong statistician, he served as president of the Czech Statistical Office beginning in April 2003.
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