predecessor successor religion office primeminister signature term_start image article_title term_end name
jan kohout alexandr vondra jan kohout jan kohout roman catholicism 8th czech republic member of the chamber of deputies senator -rrb- and 6th minister of foreign affairs of the petr nečas mirek topolánek karel schwarzenberg signature.png 13 july 2010 9 january 2007 29 may 2010 karl von schwarzenberg.jpg karel schwarzenberg
 10 july 2013 8 may 2009 karel schwarzenberg
karel schwarzenberg

karel schwarzenberg -lrb- or karel , prince of schwarzenberg , in german `` karl johannes nepomuk josef norbert friedrich antonius wratislaw menas fürst zu schwarzenberg '' , in czech `` karel jan nepomucký josef norbert bedřich antonín vratislav menas kníže ze schwarzenberga '' -rrb- , 12th prince schwarzenberg -lrb- first majorat -rrb- and 7th prince schwarzenberg -lrb- second majorat -rrb- , duke of krumlov born 10 december 1937 -rrb- is a czech politician and the leader of top 09 party .
schwarzenberg served as minister of foreign affairs of the czech republic from july 2010 to 10 july 2013 .
nominated originally by the green party , he was minister of foreign affairs already from 2007 to 2009 .
he served as senator for one of prague districts from 2004 to 2010 .
in may 2010 , he was elected member of the chamber of deputies , gaining the largest number of preference votes .
he was a candidate for president of the czech republic in the 2013 presidential election , and qualified for the second round .
he ultimately finished second , receiving 45.19 % of the votes .
schwarzenberg is noted for his pro-european views .
schwarzenberg has been the head of the house of schwarzenberg , a formerly leading family of the habsburg realm , since 1979 .
he is a relative of prince felix of schwarzenberg , a leading statesman of the austrian empire .
from 1948 to 1990 , he lived in austria -lrb- where he was known as `` karl schwarzenberg '' -rrb- , where he 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 .
he is married to therese hardegg -lrb- `` therese countess zu hardegg auf glatz und im machlande '' -rrb- and they have three children , all of whom live in austria .
