Milan Ftáčnik
Minister of Education, Science, Research and Sport
In office
30 October 1998  17 April 2002
Preceded byEva Slavkovská
Succeeded byPeter Ponický
Mayor of Bratislava
In office
21 December 2010  11 December 2014
Preceded byAndrej Ďurkovský
Succeeded byIvo Nesrovnal
Mayor of Petržalka (Borough of Bratislava)
In office
2 December 2006  27 November 2010
Succeeded byVladimír Bajan
Personal details
Born(1956-10-30)30 October 1956
Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
Died13 May 2021(2021-05-13) (aged 64)
Political partyIndependent
Alma materComenius University
WebsiteOfficial website for 2010 mayor election

Milan Ftáčnik (30 October 1956 – 13 May 2021[1]) was a Slovak politician, Minister of Education of the Slovak Republic from 1998 to 2002 and Mayor of Bratislava from 2010 to 2014. He was also a teacher at the Department of Applied Informatics at the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics of Comenius University in Bratislava.

Ftáčnik was often described as a left-wing politician.

He was the older brother of chess grandmaster Ľubomír Ftáčnik.

References

  1. "Zomrel exminister školstva Milan Ftáčnik". Pravda.sk (in Slovak). May 14, 2021.


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