Janez Stanovnik

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Janez Stanovnik

Janez Stanovnik ( Cyrillic  Јанез Становник ; * August 4, 1922 in Ljubljana ; † before January 31, 2020 ) was a Yugoslav politician of the Union of Communists of Yugoslavia (BdKJ), who among other things was Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Europe from 1968 to 1982 and between 1988 and in 1990 President of the Presidium of the People's Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia .

Life

Janez Stanovnik graduated from the University of Belgrade with a degree in geography and became a member of the Committee of the Liberation Front OF ( Osvobodilna Fronta ) while still studying . Together with other Christian Socialists, he stood in opposition to the government's policies, which collaborated with the German occupying power . In the further course of the Second World War he joined the People's Liberation Army NOV (Narodnooslobodilačka vojska) of Josip Broz Tito in Carniola . After the end of the war he obtained a doctorate and was a member of the Mission to the United Nations from 1952 to 1956 and director of the Institute for International Politics and Economics in Belgrade between 1956 and 1962 . He was also a member of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Slovenia and head of the office of Josip Broz Tito. In 1967 he was briefly a member of the Federal Executive Council in the Špiljak cabinet and subsequently a member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Geneva .

As the successor to his compatriot Vladimir Velebit , Stanovnik took over the post of Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Europe , one of five regional commissions of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), and held this position until he was replaced by the Finn Klaus Sahlgren in 1982 . After his return, he took over a professorship at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Ljubljana in 1982 . In May 1988 he succeeded France Popit as President of the Presidium of the People's Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia and was thus the last President of this republic of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) until May 10, 1990 . In this capacity he received representatives of the Committee for the Defense of Human Rights (Odbor za varstvo človekovih pravic) , which was seen as a sign of the support of the supporters of Janez Janša , who was arrested after conflicts with the army. At the same time he advocated that Slovenia should remain part of Yugoslavia, and declared in April 1989, among other things, that the separation of Slovenia from Yugoslavia would amount to political suicide. He did not resign from his membership in the League of Communists of Slovenia, which in 1990 became the Party of Democratic Renewal (Stranka democične prenove) . For his services he was awarded the National Order of Merit, the Order of Brotherhood and Unity, the Order of Valor and the 1941 Partisan Memorial Medal.

In 2002 he was awarded the Gold Medal of Honor for Freedom of the Republic of Slovenia. As president of the Slovenian Partisan Association ZZB NOB (Zveza združenj borcev za vrednote NOB Slovenije) Janez Stanovnik distanced himself on March 6th, 2009 after the corpses of massacre victims in the Barbara tunnel from the "extrajudicial, illegal and criminal" mass killings after the end of the Second World War and declared: "The killings were in diametrical contradiction to the values ​​of the people's liberation struggle."

Publications

In several publications he dealt with questions of the economy in Yugoslavia as well as international monetary and economic policy. His publications include:

  • Gozpodarski razvoj Jugoslavije v luči svetovnega gospodarskega razvoja , 1958
  • Mednarodni gozpodarski sistem: Od dominacije k enakoparovsti , 1982
  • Svet v dolgovih in mednarodni monetarni sklad , 1985

Web links

Commons : Janez Stanovnik  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.delo.si/novice/slovenija/umrl-je-janez-stanovnik-274746.html
  2. ^ Slovenia: Presidents of the Presidency of Socialist Republic of Slovenia in Rulers
  3. ↑ Kleine Zeitung (online), March 6, 2009: Partisans condemn mass graves in Slovenia ( Memento of May 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Stanovnik, Janez
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav politician
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Ljubljana , Slovenia
DATE OF DEATH before January 31, 2020