Minister for Industry and Trade

Doc. Ing. Miroslav Gregr

     After his 1954 graduation from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Czech Technical University, Prague, Mr.Gregr held a number of diverse posts in the engineering industry.

     From 1962 until the end of 1969, he was Director of the DESTA Decin works. Because of his political attitudes, he was dismissed and exposed to political persecution. Until the fall of the totalitarian regime, he was employed with the Stavby silnic road-building corporation. Early in 1990 Mr.Gregr was reinstated as Director of DESTA Decin  and, at the same time, appointed as the first President of the newly-founded Industry Association. In mid-1990 he was called to serve as the Minister for General and Electrical Engineering of the Czech Republic. It was during this period that he was instrumental in the project of Volkswagen joining Skoda Mlada Boleslav. After his Ministry was discontinued in 1991, Mr.Grégr returned to DESTA Decin to serve there as Director General and Chairman of the Board until 1996 when he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies of the CR Parliament. He was re-elected in 1998. Mr.Gregr is a member of the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the CSSD.