František Kašický

František Kašický (born 18 November 1968 in Gelnica, Czechoslovakia) is a former a defence minister of Slovakia from 4 July 2006 to 30 January 2008.

Preceded byMartin Fedor

Succeeded byJaroslav Baška

Preceded byRobert Lederleitner

Born (1968-11-18) 18 November 1968 (age 57)

Gelnica, Czechoslovakia
(now Slovakia)

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František Kašický
Minister of Defence
In office 4 July 2006 – 30 January 2008
Preceded by	Martin Fedor
Succeeded by	Jaroslav Baška
Mayor of Častá
Incumbent
Assumed office 2022
Preceded by	Robert Lederleitner
Personal details
Born	(1968-11-18) 18 November 1968 (age 57) Gelnica, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia)

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Kašický is a former chief of Office of the Minister of Defence, Director of Communication Department, and ministry spokesman. Between 2003 and 2004, Kašický was a director of Military Defence Intelligence at the Ministry of Defence.

After it was found that the Slovak ministry of defence had accepted overpriced contracts for various services, such as cleaning, Kašický resigned on 30 January 2008.^[1]

Kašický was the Slovak ambassador to Norway and Iceland from 2013 to 2017.^[2]

As of 2026, he is a mayor of Častá, a municipality in Western Slovakia.