Grga Tuškan
Grga Tuškan (* 1845 near Karlovac , Austrian Empire ; † February 22, 1923 in Sisak , Kingdom of Yugoslavia ) was a lawyer and Croatian politician in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy .
Tuškan studied law in Zagreb . After obtaining his doctorate in Graz , he opened a law firm in Sisak in 1877. In 1884 he moved to the Croatian state parliament as a representative of the Hrvatska stranka prava (HSP) . After some MPs physically attacked Károly Khuen-Héderváry , the Ban of the Kingdom of Croatia and Slavonia within the Habsburg Monarchy , in October 1885 , Tuškan testified as a witness for the attackers and was sentenced to imprisonment and the revocation of his doctorate and lawyer license. His field of activity was politics and within the HSP he rose to the ranks of the management and took over their chairmanship.
After the split in the party in 1895, he saw his political opponents primarily in the Čista stranka prava ( Pure Party of Law ) led by Josip Frank . In 1905 he joined the Croatian-Serbian coalition with the HSP . He used the Croatian newspaper Hrvatski Radnički Glas ( Croatian Workers' Voice ) published by him for anti-Semitic attacks, mainly against Josip Frank and Jews in general.
literature
- Wolfgang Benz: Handbook of anti-Semitism: hostility to Jews in past and present. Vol. 2. Persons L - Z . De Gruyter Saur, Berlin / New York 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-24072-0 , pp. 843 f .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Wolfgang Benz: Handbook of Antisemitism: Anti-Semitism in Past and Present. Vol. 2. Persons L - Z . De Gruyter Saur, Berlin / New York 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-24072-0 , pp. 843 f .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tuškan, Grga |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lawyer and Croatian politician in what was then Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1845 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karlovac |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 22, 1923 |
| Place of death | Sisak |