Emanuel Moravec

Emanuel Moravec
Minister of Education of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
In office January 1942 – May 1945
President	Emil Hácha
Prime Minister	Jaroslav Krejčí (1942–1945) Richard Bienert (1945)
Preceded by	Jan Kapras
Succeeded by	position abolished
Personal details
Born	(1893-04-17)17 April 1893 Prague, Austria-Hungary
Died	5 May 1945(1945-05-05) (aged 52) Prague, Nazi Germany
Cause of death	Suicide by gunshot
Nationality	Czech
Alma mater	War School
Occupation	politician, soldier, author
Military service
Allegiance	Austria-Hungary (1914)  Russian Empire (1915–1917)  Czechoslovakia (1917–1938)
Branch/service	Czechoslovak Army
Years of service	1914–1938
Rank	Colonel
Commands	1st Field Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment

Emanuel Moravec (Czech pronunciation: [ˈmoravɛts]; 17 April 1893 – 5 May 1945) was a Czech army officer and writer who served as the collaborationist Minister of Education of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia between 1942 and 1945. He was also chair of the Board of Trustees for the Education of Youth, a fascist youth organisation in the protectorate.

In World War I, Moravec served in the Austro-Hungarian Army, but following capture by the Russians he changed sides to join Russian-backed Serbian forces and then the Czechoslovak Legion, which went on to fight on the side of the White Army in the Russian Civil War. During the interwar period he commanded an infantry battalion in the Czechoslovak Army. As a proponent of democracy during the 1930s, Moravec was outspoken in his warnings about the expansionist plans of Germany under Adolf Hitler and appealed for armed action rather than capitulation to German demands for the Sudetenland. In the aftermath of the German occupation of the rump Czechoslovakia, he became an enthusiastic collaborator, realigning his political worldview towards fascism. He committed suicide in the final days of World War II.

Unlike some officials of the short-lived protectorate government, whose reputations were rehabilitated in whole or in part after the war, Moravec's good reputation did not survive his tenure in office and he has been widely derided as a "Czech Quisling".