Talk:Klement Gottwald

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Early life	16	2,761
Childhood and youth	842	842
Personal life	524	524
First World War	1,379	1,379
Career	12	5,511
Sports instructor and journalist	1,379	1,379
Beginning of political activity	1,715	1,715
Exile to the USSR	984	984
Return to Czechoslovakia and events leading up to the coup	1,421	1,421
Сoup d'état	3,400	3,400
Leadership of Czechoslovakia	2,012	2,012
Death	2,389	2,389
Legacy	2,557	2,557
See also	237	237
References	28	28
Further reading	691	691
External links	2,310	2,310
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Widest electoral success for Communists?

The articles says of Gottwald's election, "This has been the widest electoral success of the communist party ever recorded in a free election." The definite article is weird here -- does "the communist party" mean the Czech party, or communist parties in general, anywhere? The citation is a French article from 1993, and I'm not sure it's still true. The Communist Party in Moldova routinely wins free elections, for instance. --Jfruh (talk) 04:34, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

December 2012

Ethnic german descent? Surely, his surname is definitelly german. I personaly presume, that his ancestors came from wischauer sprachinsel (bunch of eight german speaking villages near Wischau). But is it necessary to explicitely write this fact? More than third of Czechs have german surname and more or less distant german descent (Jungmann, Rieger, Klaus). So in my humble opinion, if there is not any indicators about his family tree or indicators, that his nearer ancestors were ethnic germans, I think it is quite useles to write about his ethnic german descent. I hope you understand my comment. I am aware that my english is far from perfect. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.113.8.134 (talk • contribs)

"Voice from Poland & Germany": Of course you are right.

And as I can see - it is already taken out.

But unfortunately not yet from the category "Czech people of German descent".

Best regards, Upper Silesian. :-) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.211.59.104 (talk) 23:35, 16 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"Of course you are right" - Why?

Klement Gottwald came from a sudeten german family. His mother was Marie Gottwald (in Czech Maria Gottwaldova), and her mother tongue was German. ( that means sudeten german )
At the age of twelve Klement moved to Vienna to work for his uncle.
"More than third of Czechs have german surname" = utterly nonsense
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 171.23.6.13 (talk) 19:15, 24 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

His ethnicity is important since he was a proponent of the Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia. Did he not consider himself a German? Did he exclude himself as a German antifascist? --Error (talk) 21:29, 15 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

He was excluded because he was not only a communist but one with a lot of power. The Russians knew that they couldnt remove the only person who could help them imfluemce chekhoslovakia. 2A00:23C7:5882:8201:A19B:9302:DF74:7E0E (talk) 17:13, 9 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Request for Comments

There is an RfC on the question of using "Religion: None" vs. "Religion: None (atheist)" in the infobox on this and other similar pages.

The RfC is at Template talk:Infobox person#RfC: Religion infobox entries for individuals that have no religion.

Please help us determine consensus on this issue. --Guy Macon (talk) 17:17, 23 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]