(February 25, 1903 Varšany - February 20, 1981 Turá Lúka)

Imrich Karvaš was born in the family of the notary in Varšany (Levice district) on February 25, 1903. He visited elementary school in Pukanec, later in Holíč in years 1909 - 1913. He graduated on gymnasium in Skalica in 1921.

After the graduation he decided to study in Faculty of Law on the University of J. A. Komenský in Bratislava. After the graduation ceremony in 1925 he remained on Faculty of Law as an assistant. In the same year he obtained a title Judr. and later: docent (1930) , special professor (1934) and academic professor (1940). The young Karvaš was attracted to economic law. He obtained a studentship and became a student of the University of Paris and University in Strasburg in years 1926 – 1927. When he came back, he started to work as assistant secretary in Camber of Commerce and Industry. He was a secretary of Association of Slovak banks in years 1930 – 1933.

He was nominated to general secretary of the Institute of general economics of Slovakia and Ruthenia in Bratislava in 1932. He was in this position till 1938 and he was also vice president of the Export institute in Prague. Doc. Judr. Karvaš approved in this positions as an excellent expert. This fact was acknowledged by his lecture tour in the USA in 1937. He became a member of Economic Society Colorado Springs.

Doc. Judr. Karvaš worked in the function of the “minister without a chair” of the industry and trade in Czechoslovak government in years 1938 – 1939. After the declaration of the Slovak republic on March 14, 1939 he became a governor of the Slovak national bank. Slovak government nominated him to the position chairman of the Chief office of catering industry in 1942. He was in this position till his arrest by Gestapo on September 3, 1944. According to stimulus of Karvaš commercial university was origin in Bratislava in 1940.