Editing Gustáv Husák (section)

== Functions ==
[[Communist Party of Czechoslovakia]]/KSČ (prohibited 1938, dissolved 1939–1945)
*1933-1938/1939 and 1989 (December)-(February) 1990: common member
*spring 1945: member of its Provisional Central Committee (established in the parts of Czechoslovakia liberated by the [[Red Army]])
*1949-1951 and 1968 (31 August)-1989: member of its Central Committee
*1968 (31 August)-1989 (24 November): member of its Presidium
*1969 (April) -1987 (December): one of its secretaries
*1969 (April)-1987: party leader (First Secretary, since 1971  Secretary General of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia)
*1987 (17 December): resigned as party leader (replaced by [[Miloš Jakeš]])

[[Communist Party of Slovakia (1939)|Communist Party of Slovakia]]/KSS (illegal 1939–1944/1945)
*1939-1945: one of its leaders
*1943-1944: member of its 5th illegal Central Committee
*1944-1950 and 1968–1971: member of its Central Committee and (except for 1970–1971) member of its Presidium and (except for 1944–1948) one of its secretaries
*1944-1945: vice-chairman
*1968 (28 August)-1969: party leader ("first secretary")

[[Slovak National Council (1943–1960)|Slovak National Council]] (''Slovenská národná rada'') (during World War II a resistance parliament-government, since 1968 the Slovak parliament)
*1943-1944: one of its main organizers
*1944-1950 and 1968 (December)-1971: its deputy
*1944-1950: member of its Presidium
*1944-1945: vice-chairman

[[Council of Commissioners]] (''Zbor povereníkov'') (a quasi government responsible for Slovakia)
*1944-1945: Commissioner of the Interior
*1945-1946: Commissioner of  Transport and Technology in Slovakia
*1946-1950: President of the Council of Commissioners, in which he contributed to the suppression of the influential Democratic Party of Slovakia by the Communists (1947–1948)
*1948-1950: Commissioner of Agriculture and Land Reform in Slovakia
*1949-1950: Commissioner of Alimentation in Slovakia

Czechoslovak Parliament (called National Assembly and since 1968 Federal Assembly)
*1945-1951 and 1968–1975: deputy
*1969-1975: member of its Presidium

Czechoslovak government
*1968 (April–December): a vice-premier of the [[Prague Spring]] Czechoslovak government

[[President of Czechoslovakia]]
*1975-1989: President of Czechoslovakia
*1989 (10 December): resigned as the President of Czechoslovakia within the [[Velvet Revolution]]