Portrait of Emil Hácha

Emil Hácha

Czech politician, political prisoner, lawyer, translator and judge

Lived
1872–1945
Country
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia

Updated September 2026

About Emil Hácha

Emil Dominik Josef Hácha was a Czech lawyer, serving as the president of Czechoslovakia from November 1938 to March 1939. In March 1939, after the breakup of Czechoslovakia, Hácha was the nominal president of the newly proclaimed German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

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