Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Sat, 22 Aug 2026 06:55:38 +0200https://english.radio.cz/michal-lobkowicz-youngest-czech-defence-minister-8068984© 2026 Radio Prague International Today's guest on "One on One" is Michal Lobkowicz, who in 1998 served as the Czech Republic's youngest defence minister ever. If you had to pick the most impressive aspect of Mr Lobkowicz's biography, it would perhaps be the fact that he rose to public office at such a young age. During the Velvet Revolution he was 25 and a member of Civic Forum, and in 1990 he was elected to the Czech parliament. It was in 1998, at the age of 34, that he became defence minister in the interim government of Josef Tosovsky, a government that lasted for just over six months. During his ministerial term, he left the Christian Democrats and established a new party, the Freedom Union. I began our interview by asking Mr Lobkowicz what he thought his major achievements were as defence minister. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/4f5197446b1f6808606b2a0aab5e5a67.png?timestamp=1583150525 https://english.radio.cz/michal-lobkowicz-youngest-czech-defence-minister-8068984 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9