Josip Manolić
Josip Manolić (born March 22, 1920 in Kalinovac near Bjelovar ) was a high functionary of the Union of Communists of Croatia and from August 24, 1990 to July 17, 1991 Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Croatia .
Life
Manolić completed a law degree in Zagreb . From 1939 he was a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia and already held responsible positions in the party and trade union before the Second World War. From 1941 he was with the partisans.
After the Second World War he took on various functions in the party and in associations. 1959–1960 he was head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Croatia and 1960–1965 police chief of Zagreb.
In 1965 he was elected as a member of the Croatian Republic Council Sabor , where he was, among other things, President of the Legislative and Legal Commission.
In the wake of the Croatian Spring , he lost his parliamentary seat.
In June 1989 he founded the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) together with Franjo Tuđman and Stipe Mesić and built up its party apparatus.
In the summer of 1990 he replaced Stipe Mesić in the office of Croatian Prime Minister.
At the party congress in October 1993, he and Mesić advocated a change in Tuđman's Bosnian policy. For this he was expelled from the HDZ, who was then chairman of the Senate. He and Mesić, then President of the House of Commons, founded a new party in 1994, the Croatian Independent Democrats (HND).
family
A few years after the death of his first wife, the translator Marija Eker-Manolić (* approx. 1922; † 2003), he married Mirjana Ribarić (* 1956; † August 19, 2020) in 2016, who worked as an educator in an SOS Children's Village in Lekenik . She died of lung cancer at the age of 64 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stogodišnjem Josipu Manoliću preminula supruga , narod.hr, August 19, 2020
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Manolić, Josip |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Croatian politician and prime minister |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 22, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kalinovac near Bjelovar |