Štefan Tiso

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Štefan Tiso

Štefan Tiso (born October 18, 1897 in Bytča , Slovakia ; † March 28, 1959 ) was a Slovak politician of the Slovak People's Party and after the resignation of Vojtech Tukas, the third and last Prime Minister of the Slovak State (1944-1945).

Life

After attending school, he began to study law in 1915 , but had to break it off in order to do his military service during the First World War in 1916 , which he last did in 1918 in the Czechoslovak legions .

After his release from Russian captivity and his return to Slovakia, he resumed his law studies at Masaryk University in Brno in 1920 , before he later switched to Comenius University in Bratislava . After graduation and successful promotion to Doctor of Law , he was first judges at the Court of Trenčín , before 1938 President of the District Court of Trenčín was. After the establishment of the First Slovak Republic, he finally became President of the Supreme Court of Slovakia in September 1939.

Tiso became Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic on September 5, 1944, during the time of the Slovak National Uprising, succeeding Vojtech Tuka . At this point in time, Slovak statehood was a mere facade; if Slovakia had previously been a state at the mercy of Adolf Hitler , the German Wehrmacht , which marched in to put down the great uprising in August 1944, removed all internal autonomy, while the occupation by the Red Army only removed it was a matter of time.

At the same time he took over the office of Foreign Minister and Minister of Justice in his cabinet, which was in office until May 8, 1945. On May 8, 1945, in Kremsmünster in Upper Austria , he signed the capitulation of the Slovak Republic, which was dependent on the National Socialist German Reich, and thereby de facto lost his offices.

In 1947 he was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment and died while in prison.

Tiso was a cousin of Jozef Tiso , the first Prime Minister and President of the "First Slovak Republic" , who was executed in 1947 as a war criminal.

literature

  • Meyers Großes Personenlexikon , Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim 1968, p. 1321 ( DNB 457593598 ).

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personal data
SURNAME Tiso, Štefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovak politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Bytča , Slovakia
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1959