| Joachim Drucker | |
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| Drucker in 2021 | |
| 12th Minister-President of North Sudetenland | |
| In office 12 June 2009 – 12 June 2014 | |
| Preceded by | Wolf-Dietrich Frank |
| Succeeded by | Bernd Posselt |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 21 October 1961 (age 63) Fugau, North Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia |
| Political party | Czechoslovak Social Democratic Party (1992–present) |
| Spouse(s) | Helena Amsler (m. 1998) |
| Children | Adolf Georg |
Joachim Theodor Drucker (born 21 October 1961) is a Czechoslovak politician of German nationality who served as the twelfth Minister-President of North Sudetenland from 2009 to 2014.
Drucker was born on October 21, 1961 in the village of Fugau. Drucker ran for federal elections in 2001 and 2005 but did not win. In the state elections of North Sudetenland in 2009, he won, thus becoming the new minister-president, and he remained in this office until 2014, when the former Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia and member of the Czechoslovak People's Party, Bernd Posselt, won the state elections. Later, Drucker announced that he was not interested in running in the 2019 election and instead Wilhelm Wechsler would run for the Czechoslovak Social Democratic Party in the next election. During anti-government protests in 2019, Drucker joined the protests as he criticized Babiš's government.
Early life[]
Joachim Theodor Drucker was born on 26 October 1961 in North Sudetenland in the village of Fugau. His father, Adolf Drucker, was born in Saxony, but the family later moved to the village of Fugau in the Sudetenland and his mother, Karolína Jenč, was the daughter of a Lusatian soldier who moved to the village of Fugau in order not to be captured by German troops after the dissolution of the Lusatian Democratic Republic. Adolf Drucker and Karolína Jenč met sometime in the mid-1950s and later got married. Drucker studied at schools in Fugau and later in Schluckenau, where he graduated in 1985.
Political career[]
In 1992, Drucker joined the Czechoslovak Social Democratic Party. Drucker tried twice to become the Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia in 2001 and 2005 but failed. Drucker then decided not to run again and rather focus on the next state election in the Northern Sudetenland. North Sudeten state elections were held in March 2009 in which Drucker won. Drucker took office on 12 June.
In June 2013, Drucker announced that he would seek office again in the state election in 2014. Although Drucker was popular, former Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia and member of the Czechoslovak People's Party Bernd Posselt ultimately won the state election. In July 2014, Drucker said that he would reconsider running in the next state election to be held in 2019. However, in October 2015, he announced that he had decided not to run in the next election and that Wilhelm Wechsler would instead run for Czechoslovak Social Democratic Party in the next elections.
Drucker took part in anti-government protests in 2019 because he criticized the government of Andrej Babiš and asked for the resignation of the government so that Czechoslovakia does not become an authoritarian country. On 12 July 2019, Babiš finally submitted his resignation and snap elections were held in November of the same year where Drucker supported Jan Hamáček, a member of the Social Democratic Party.
Personal life[]
In 1998, he married Helena Amsler and together they have two children, Adolf and Georg.
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