Karel Schwarzenberg (1937 –2023) was a Czech politician,
diplomat and statesman who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the
Czech Republic from 2007 to 2009 and then again between 2010 and 2013.
Schwarzenberg was leader and co-founder of the TOP 09 party and its candidate
for president of the Czech Republic in the 2013 election.
Schwarzenberg was the head of the House of Schwarzenberg, a
formerly leading family of the Habsburg empire. From 1948 to 1990, he lived in
Austria, where he was known as Karl Schwarzenberg, and was involved in politics
for the Austrian People's Party and became a noted critic of human-rights
violations in the Eastern Bloc, chairing the International Helsinki Federation
for Human Rights. Following the fall of communism, he became a close adviser to
Václav Havel and relocated to Prague.
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