Ante Marković

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Ante Marković

Ante Marković ( Cyrillic  Анте Марковић ; born November 25, 1924 in Konjic , Kingdom of Yugoslavia ; † November 28, 2011 in Zagreb , Croatia ) was a Yugoslav politician . From 1989 to 1991 he was Prime Minister of his country.

Life

Ante Marković was involved in the Communist Youth Association from 1940 and took part in the partisan war. After the Second World War he studied electrical engineering in Zagreb and then worked for a long time in the company " Rade Končar " (mechanical engineering from washing machines to turbines for hydropower plants), 1961–1986 as general director.

Since 1943 he belonged to the Union of Communists of Yugoslavia . From 1982 to 1986 he was Prime Minister and from 1986 to 1988 President of the Socialist Republic of Croatia . In March 1989 he became Prime Minister of the SFR Yugoslavia . His economic reforms achieved a significant reduction in inflation , but by the end of 1990 they led to the bankruptcy of 2,435 companies with a total of 1.3 million employees.

After the Union of Communists of Yugoslavia dissolved in January 1990, Marković founded the Savez reformskih snaga Jugoslavije (Union of Reform Forces of Yugoslavia). His attempt to preserve Yugoslavia as a state and gradually democratize it was torpedoed by the presidents of the republics of Serbia ( Slobodan Milošević ), Croatia ( Franjo Tuđman ) and Slovenia ( Milan Kučan ). Slovenia and Croatia declared their independence on June 25, 1991. While in Slovenia only briefly to armed clashes came, began in Croatia war . In the rest of Yugoslavia, which was now dominated by Serbians, Marković had little room for maneuver. He was still trying to create a counterweight to the nationalist-oriented broadcasters of the republics by founding the YUTEL television station in Sarajevo. He resigned on December 20, 1991; a successor was no longer determined.

He lived as an entrepreneur in Graz for a few years before moving to Sarajevo , where he founded the company Tehel doo , which builds hydropower plants.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Preminuo Ante Marković
  2. ↑ Jörg Roesler : With or without Western money? The IMF and the socialist states , in: WeltTrends , vol. 16, no . 59, 2008, pp. 85–96 (here: p. 92).
  3. ↑ http://www-gewi.kfunigraz.ac.at/gralis/4.Gralisarium/GraLiS%202007/1.Symposium/Tosovic_Rede_de.doc
  4. ↑ http://www.delo.si/clanek/18560  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , http://www.politika.rs/rubrike/Politika/Jugoslaviji-nije-bilo-spasa.lt.html@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.delo.si  
personal data
SURNAME Marković, Ante
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav politician, Prime Minister (1989–1991)
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Konjic (Yugoslavia, now Bosnia-Herzegovina)
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 2011
Place of death Zagreb , Croatia