Dagmar Burešová

Dagmar Burešová (19 October 192930 June 2018) was a Czech lawyer and politician. She specialised in labour law. She was known for her defence of Libuše Palachová, the mother of Jan Palach, a young man that self immolated to protest the Soviet absorption of his country, a drama featured in the 2013 miniseries Burning Bush. As a politician, Burešová served as the first Minister of Justice of Czechoslovakia, after the Velvet Revolution. She was the chair of the Czech National Council from 1990 to 1992.

Personal life and death Burešová was born in 1929 in Prague. Burešová's father was a lawyer during the First Czechoslovak Republic. She studied law at Charles University in Prague, and during that time, she hid a classmate who had escaped from a communist prison. She put her friend in touch with , who helped him flee to Munich, West Germany. A recount of the events was featured in 's book Advokáti proti totalitě (Lawyers Against Totalitarianism). Her youngest daughter could not go to school due to Burešová's controversial work. as well as , and Libuše Palachová, the mother of Jan Palach.

After the Velvet Revolution, Burešová served as the first Minister of Justice of Czechoslovakia, from 1989 to 1990. Burešová supported judicial reform.

In 1996, Burešová was a KDU-ČSL candidate for the Senate of the Czech Republic. She was not elected, Burešová also worked as a chair of the Czech-German Fund for the Future, which gives money to Czechs who were affected by the Nazis,

Awards In 2002, Burešová was awarded the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk.