France Popit

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France Popit (1969)

France Popit , also Franc Popit (born August 3, 1921 in Vrhnika , Carniola , Slovenia ; † January 25, 2013 ) was a Yugoslav partisan and politician of the Union of Communists of Yugoslavia (BdKJ), who was secretary of the Federal Central Committee between 1969 and 1982 of the Communists of Slovenia and from 1984 to 1988 President of the Presidium of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia .

Life

Popit joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia while attending a high school in 1940 and was involved in the Communist Party of Slovenia during World War II . In addition, after the occupation of Yugoslavia by the German Wehrmacht in April 1941, he belonged to the partisan movement of Josip Broz Tito under the code name "Jokl" . After the founding of the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia on March 7, 1945, he took on various functions within the Communist Party of Slovenia and in the League of Communists of Slovenia, which emerged in 1952, and was the successor of Stane Kavčič between 1963 and 1966 President of the Slovenian Trade Union Confederation ZSS (Zveze Sindikatov Slovenije ) . On June 16, 1966 he was appointed by the executive office of the Central Committee of the BdKJ to a member of a special commission chaired by Krste Crvenkovski , who also included Blažo Jovanović , Đuro Pucar , Dobrivoje Radosavljević and Miko Tripalo . The special commission was represented to prepare an indictment against the long-time top functionary Aleksandar Ranković . Because of the repeated abuse of power accused of him, Ranković was removed from all his offices in 1966 and expelled from the party.

In March 1969 Popit, a favorite of Josip Broz Tito and a loyalist supporter of his Titoism , succeeded Albert Jakopič as secretary of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Slovenia and held this office as party leader until his replacement by Andrej Marinc in April 1982. Simultaneously he was on the IX. Party Congress (March 11 to 16, 1969) elected for the first time as a member of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Union of Communists of Yugoslavia (BdKJ) and in this function at the 10th Party Congress (May 27 to 30, 1974) and the XI. Party Congress (June 20-23, 1978) re-elected. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Popit were among the leading communist functionaries in Slovenia , alongside Edvard Kardelj , Stane Dolanc , Sergej Kraigher and Stane Kavčič. On November 27, 1972, together with Tito and Edvard Kardelj, he contributed to the overthrow of the Chairman of the Executive Council of Slovenia (Prime Minister) Stane Kavčič, whereby Kardelj had more of the national moment and Popit more the liberalism of Kavčič in mind.

On May 7, 1984 he replaced Viktor Avbelj as President of the Presidium of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia and held the office of President in this republic of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) until May 6, 1988, whereupon Janez Stanovnik succeeded him. In this position he held talks with the German Chancellor Helmut Kohl in Ljubljana on June 5, 1985 . In 1986 he was chairman of the Central Committee for Total National Defense and Social Self-Protection. In September 1989 he spoke out against the "anti-socialist" tendencies of the then secretary of the Slovenian communists, Milan Kučan .

Publications

  • Okrajna konferenca Socialistične zveze v Kranju: zaključki konference (Regional Conference of the Socialist Alliance in Kranj: Conclusions of the Conference), 1953
  • Planiranje u uslovima ostvarivanja ustavnih promena u Jugoslaviji (Planning under the terms of the constitutional amendments in Yugoslavia), 1975

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sabrina P. Ramet: The Three Yugoslavias: State-building and Legitimation, 1918-2005 , p. 218, Indiana University Press, 2006, ISBN 0-253-34656-8
  2. ↑ Viktor Meier: Yugoslavia: A History of its Demise , p. 33, Routledge, 2005, ISBN 1-134-66510-5
  3. ^ Slovenia: Secretaries of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (from 1952, League of Communists) (rulers.org)
  4. ^ List of members of the Politburo of the BdKJ
  5. ↑ Ramet 2006, p. 245
  6. ↑ Ramet 2006, pp. 242, 260
  7. ↑ Dunja Melcic-Mikulic (editor): Der Yugoslavien-Krieg: Handbook on Prehistory, Course and Consequences , pp. 35, 200, Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 3-663-09609-2
  8. ^ Slovenia: Presidents of the Presidency (rulers.org)
  9. ↑ Meier 2005, p. 65
  10. ↑ Michael Ploetz, Mechthild Lindemann, Christoph Johannes Franzen: Files on the Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany 1985 , p. 766, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2016, ISBN 3-11-040642-X
  11. ^ Yugoslav Information Bulletin of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia & the Socialist Alliance of Working People of Yugoslavia , pp. 2, 33, Issue 2, 1986
  12. ↑ Meier 2005, p. 112
personal data
SURNAME Popit, France
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Popit, Franc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Vrhnika , Carniola , Slovenia
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 2013