Janko Smole

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Janko Smole (1965)

Janko Smole (born June 2, 1921 in Ljubljana , Yugoslavia , today: Slovenia ; † June 11, 2010 ibid) was a politician of the Union of Communists of Yugoslavia (BdKJ) in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY), who, among other things, between 1958 and 1962 Governor of the National Bank of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia (FVRJ), from 1965 to 1967 as Chairman of the Executive Council Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia and from 1967 to 1974 as Federal Secretary for Finance Finance Minister of Yugoslavia.

Life

Janko Smole, who came from a well-known family of lawyers , began studying after attending grammar school in Belgrade and in 1939 became a member of the Association of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia (SKOJ). During the Second World War , he took part in the partisan war , the so-called "National Liberation Struggle of the People of Yugoslavia" against the German and Italian occupying powers from September 1941 and in February 1942 he was a political officer of the VII Corps and the main staff of the People's Liberation Army (NOVJ). in Italian captivity, from which he was only released in May 1944. After his return to Yugoslavia, he became a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in 1944 and subsequently took on numerous functions in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia (FVRJ). First he was secretary for agitation and propaganda in the Central Committee (ZK) of the Communist Party of Slovenia and secretary of the coordination department in the Presidium of the Government of Slovenia in November 1944 , before he became head of a department of the FVRJ's planning commission. This was followed by posts as Vice President of the Planning Commission of the Republic of Slovenia, as Secretary of the Coordinating Committee of the Presidency of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia, between 1950 and 1953 as Chairman of the Planning Commission of the Republic of Slovenia, Assistant to the President of the Economic Council of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia, as Director of the Institute for economics at the Federal Executive Council, as Director General of the Directorate for Short-Term Loans of the National Bank of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia and as Deputy Executive Director of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development in Washington, DC

On June 21, 1958, Smole succeeded Vojin Guzina as governor of the National Bank of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia and held this post until he was replaced by Nikola Miljanić on June 16, 1962. After he was subsequently deputy chairman of the Executive Council from June 1962 In April 1965 he succeeded Viktor Avbelj as Chairman of the Executive Council Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia and held this office until May 1967, after which Stane Kavčič was his successor. Subsequently, on May 18, 1967, he became Federal Secretary for Finance in the Špiljak cabinet and thus Finance Minister of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY). He also held this ministerial office in the Ribičič cabinet (May 18, 1969 to July 30, 1971) and in the Bijedić I cabinet (July 30, 1971 to May 17, 1974). In this capacity he was also a member of the Council for the Elaboration of Basic Issues in Yugoslavia's Development Plans between 1971 and 1975.

Subsequently, he became a member of the Federal Executive Council in the Bijedić II cabinet on May 17, 1974 and then also held this office in the Đuranović I cabinet (March 15, 1977 to May 16, 1978). In this role he dealt temporarily with relations with the European Communities and with foreign trade. He was also a member of the Executive Council of the Socialist Alliance of Working People of Yugoslavia SSRNJ and of the XI. Party Congress (June 20-23, 1978) to the XIII. Party Congress (June 25-28, 1986) Member of the Central Committee of the Union of Communists of Yugoslavia (BdKJ). In the Planinc cabinet he served from May 16, 1982 to May 15, 1984 again as a member of the Federal Executive Council.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Yugoslavia: National Bank of Yugoslavia Governors
  2. ^ Slovenia: Chairmen of the Executive Council
  3. ^ Frits W. Hondius: The Yugoslav community of nations , p. 324, Walter de Gruyter , 2019
  4. ^ Sabrina P. Ramet: The Three Yugoslavias: State-building and Legitimation, 1918-2005 , p. 245, Indiana University Press, 2006
  5. ↑ Špiljak Executive Council
  6. ^ Executive Council Ribičič
  7. ^ Executive Council Bijedić
  8. ^ Yugoslav: Federal Secretaries of Finance
  9. ^ Executive Council Bijedić 2
  10. ^ Executive Council Đuranović
  11. ^ Benedetto Zaccaria: The EEC's Yugoslav Policy in Cold War Europe, 1968-1980 , pp. 82 ff., Springer, 2016
  12. ^ Executive Council Planinc
personal data
SURNAME Smole, Janko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Ljubljana , Yugoslavia , today: Slovenia
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 2010
Place of death Ljubljana