Background
HRIVNAK, Pavel was born on October 9, 1931 in Maly CepCin.
HRIVNAK, Pavel was born on October 9, 1931 in Maly CepCin.
Faculty of Chemical Engineering Slovak Technology University Bratislava.
On 12 October 1988, he was named first deputy minister in the federal government led by Ladislav Adamec. Hrivnák was appointed prime minister of Slovakia on 22 June 1989, replacing Ivan Knotek in the post. His tenure lasted very brief and on 8 December 1989, Hrivnák and his cabinet resigned.
The chairmanship of the Slovak National Council (SNR) accepted the resignation.
Then Milan Čič was asked to form a new cabinet. Hrivnák died on 3 February 1995 in Bratislava and was buried in the National Cemetery.
He was a member of the Slovak Communist Party and the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. He was named member of the Slovak Communist Party Political Bureau in May 1971 and became Political Bureau member of the Czechoslovakian Communist Party in December 1986.
