Vlastimil Tusar
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Image:Vlastimil Tusar.jpg Vlastimil Tusar (18 October 1880 Prague–22 March 1924 Berlin) was a Czechoslovak journalist and political figure. He served as prime minister of Czechoslovakia from 1919 to 1920.
Tusar was born as the son of a civil servant he attended a gymnasium and an economical school in Prague. Between 1900 and 1903 he worked for a bank, in 1903 he became a journalist for various socialdemocratic papers. In 1908 he became editor in chief of the daily newspaper "Rovnost" in Brno.
In 1911 he was elected Member of the Austrian Reichsrat (the parliament of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy) for the constituency of Brno. In 1918 he played a vital role in the formation of Czechoslovakia as new state. He served as prime minister of a coalition government between July 1919 and September 1920, being also a member of the new Czechoslovak parliament from 1918 until 1921, when he was made Czechoslovak ambassador in Berlin, where he died in 1924.