Bohumil Jílek

Bohumil Jílek (17 October 1892, in Deštná – 3 August 1963, in New York City) was a Czechoslovak politician and General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from 1925 to 1929.

Deposed by Klement Gottwald, he joined a new parliamentary club called Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (Leninists).

Before he worked as journalist. After 1948, he left for France, and later to the United States.

His father Jan Jílek was a local policeman; his mother Františka née Vosolová.