# Richard Bienert > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Richard_Bienert > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Richard_Bienert.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bienert > Source revision: 1333291700 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Czech police officer and politician (1881–1949) This article includes a list of references, related reading, or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. Please help improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (August 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Richard Bienert Prime Minister of Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia In office 19 January 1945 – 5 May 1945 President Emil Hácha Preceded by Jaroslav Krejčí Succeeded by Office Abolished (Zdeněk Fierlinger as Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia) Personal details Born (1881-09-05)September 5, 1881 Prague Died February 2, 1949(1949-02-02) (aged 67) Prague Alma mater Prague University **Richard Bienert** (September 5, 1881 – February 2, 1949) was a [Czech](/source/Czechs) high-ranking police officer and politician. He served as [prime minister](/source/Prime_minister) of the [Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia](/source/Protectorate_of_Bohemia_and_Moravia) from January 19 to May 5, 1945. After [World War II](/source/World_War_II) he was sentenced to prison for [collaboration](/source/Collaboration_with_Nazi_Germany_and_Fascist_Italy) with [Nazis](/source/Nazism). ## Career Born in Prague, Bienert came from a family of magistrates clerks from that city and after he finished law studies at [Prague University](/source/Prague_University) he also entered the state service. Some of his ancestors were of German-Bohemian ethnic descent and had assimilated into Czech society. From 1906 he worked as a police official for [police](/source/Police) in Prague and in January 1918 he even became a clerk in the Presidium of the Police in Prague. During [World War I](/source/World_War_I) Bienert cooperated closely with the [Czech resistance](/source/Maffia) movement and after the proclamation of Czechoslovak independence in October 1918 he was rewarded with an appointment to the position of Prague Police Director. Later in the 1930s he also became the Provincial President in the Land of [Bohemia](/source/Bohemia). After the [German occupation of Czechoslovakia](/source/German_occupation_of_Czechoslovakia) in 1939, he was briefly arrested by the Germans but soon released in exchange for a pledge of loyalty. In 1942, after prime minister [Eliáš](/source/Alois_Eli%C3%A1%C5%A1) was arrested by [Heydrich](/source/Reinhard_Heydrich), Bienert was appointed to minister of interior under the new prime minister [Jaroslav Krejčí](/source/Jaroslav_Krej%C4%8D%C3%AD). In 1945 Bienert replaced Krejčí in this position and at the same time also served as the substitute for seriously ill president [Hácha](/source/Emil_H%C3%A1cha). In an agreement with [state secretary Frank](/source/Karl_Hermann_Frank), Bienert tried to broadcast the statement on the dissolution of the Protectorate (which should be replaced by Czech puppet state still controlled by Germans) on 5 May 1945. However the same morning the [Prague uprising](/source/Prague_uprising) broke out and Bienert was captured by insurgents in the broadcasting room of [City Hall](/source/Old_Town_Hall_(Prague)). After the end of [World War II](/source/World_War_II), Bienert was tried for [treason](/source/Treason) and [collaboration](/source/Collaboration_with_Nazi_Germany_and_Fascist_Italy) with the Nazis, but because of many [mitigating circumstances](/source/Mitigating_circumstances) he was sentenced to only three years in prison. Due to poor health, he was released prematurely in 1947, and died in Prague two years later. ## External links - [Biography](http://zivotopisyonline.cz/richard-bienert.php) (in Czech) - [Members of Bienert's government, 19.1.1945 - 5.5.1945](https://web.archive.org/web/20080527221824/http://zivotopisyonline.cz/protektoratni-vlada-bienertova-1945-clenove.php) at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine) (archived May 27, 2008) (in Czech) Government offices Preceded by Jaroslav Krejčí Prime Minister of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia 1945 Succeeded by Zdeněk Fierlinger Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia v t e Prime ministers of Czechoslovakia First Czechoslovak Republic Karel Kramář Vlastimil Tusar Jan Černý Edvard Beneš Antonín Švehla Jan Černý Antonín Švehla František Udržal Jan Malypetr Milan Hodža Jan Syrový Second Czechoslovak Republic Jan Syrový Rudolf Beran German occupation Protectorate Rudolf Beran (acting) Alois Eliáš Jaroslav Krejčí Richard Bienert First Slovak Republic Jozef Tiso Vojtech Tuka Štefan Tiso Government-in-exile Jan Šrámek Third Czechoslovak Republic Zdeněk Fierlinger Klement Gottwald Czechoslovak Socialist Republic Antonín Zápotocký Viliam Široký Jozef Lenárt Oldřich Černík Lubomír Štrougal Ladislav Adamec Czech and Slovak Federative Republic Marián Čalfa Jan Stráský v t e Political office-holders in the Nazi German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia Government of the Protectorate State President Emil Hácha Prime Ministers Rudolf Beran* Alois Eliáš Jaroslav Krejčí Richard Bienert German representatives Supreme Commander of the Wehrmacht Johannes Blaskowitz Reich Protectors Konstantin von Neurath Reinhard Heydrich* Kurt Daluege* Wilhelm Frick State Minister Karl Hermann Frank *Acting Authority control databases International ISNI VIAF GND WorldCat National Czech Republic This biographical article about a Czech politician is a stub. 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