Milan Ftáčnik

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Milan Ftáčnik
Minister of Education, Science, Research and Sport
In office
30 October 1998 – 17 April 2002
Preceded byEva Slavkovská
Succeeded byPeter Ponický
Mayor of Bratislava
In office
21 December 2010 – 11 December 2014
Preceded byAndrej Ďurkovský
Succeeded byIvo Nesrovnal
Mayor of Petržalka (Borough of Bratislava)
In office
2 December 2006 – 27 November 2010
Succeeded byVladimír Bajan
Personal details
Born(1956-10-30)30 October 1956
Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
Died13 May 2021(2021-05-13) (aged 64)
Political partyIndependent
Alma materComenius University
WebsiteOfficial website for 2010 mayor election

Milan Ftáčnik (30 October 1956 – 13 May 2021[1]) was a Slovak politician, Minister of Education of the Slovak Republic from 1998 to 2002 and Mayor of Bratislava from 2010 to 2014. He was also a teacher at the Department of Applied Informatics at the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics of Comenius University in Bratislava.

Ftáčnik was often described as a left-wing politician.

He was the older brother of chess grandmaster Ľubomír Ftáčnik.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Zomrel exminister školstva Milan Ftáčnik". Pravda.sk (in Slovak). May 14, 2021.