Vojtech Tuka | |
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Prime Minister of Slovakia | |
In office 26 October 1939 – 5 September 1944 | |
President | Jozef Tiso |
Preceded by | Jozef Tiso |
Succeeded by | Štefan Tiso |
Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
In office 26 October 1939 – 2 September 1944 | |
Preceded by | Ferdinand Ďurčanský |
Deputy, Czechoslovak Parliament | |
In office 1925 –1929 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Hegybánya, Hont County, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary (now Štiavnické Bane, Slovakia) | 4 July 1880
Died | 20 August 1946 Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now Bratislava, Slovakia) | (aged 66)
Cause of death | Execution by hanging |
Nationality | Slovak |
Political party | Slovak People's Party |
Occupation | Politician, lawyer, professor, editor |
Profession | Law |
Vojtech Lázar "Béla" Tuka (4 July 1880 – 20 August 1946) was a Slovak politician who served as prime minister and minister of Foreign Affairs of the First Slovak Republic between 1939 and 1945. Tuka was one of the main forces behind the deportation of Slovak Jews to Nazi concentration camps in German occupied Poland. He was the leader of the radical wing of the Slovak People's Party.