Josip Vrhovec

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Josip Vrhovec ( Serbian - Cyrillic Јосип Врховец ; * February 9, 1926 in Zagreb ; † February 15, 2006 ibid.) Was a politician of the Union of Communists of Yugoslavia (BdKJ) in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY), which, among other things, between 1978 and 1982 Foreign Minister, from 1983 to 1984 Secretary of the Central Committee of the Union of Communists of Croatia and from 1984 to 1989 a member of the Presidium of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia .

Life

Vrhovec took part in the partisan war in 1941 , the so-called "National Liberation Struggle of the Peoples of Yugoslavia". In November 1943 he became a member of the People's Liberation Army and in 1944 he joined the illegal Communist Party. After the end of the Second World War he became a soldier in the Yugoslav People's Army in 1945 and then began studying at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Belgrade in 1951 , which he finished in 1956.

In 1956 Vrhovec became editor-in-chief of Вјесник у сриједу and was then from 1957 to 1959 the correspondent of the Croatian- language daily Vjesnik in Great Britain . He was then again editor-in-chief of Вјесник у сриједу between 1959 and 1963 and Vjesnik's correspondent in the USA between 1963 and 1967 , before he was finally editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper Vjesnik from 1968 to 1970 . In 1970 he became a member of the Executive Committee of the Central Committee (ZK) of the BdKJ and in December 1971 secretary of the Executive Committee of the Central Committee of the Union of Communists of Croatia. He then became a member of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the BdKJ in 1974 and was its secretary for ideology and theoretical affairs as well as president of the party college Josip Broz Tito .

Vrhovec then became Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs on May 17, 1978 as successor to Miloš Minić (Савезни секретар за иностране послове) and held this office until he was replaced by Lazar Mojsov on May 17, 1982.

In 1983 he succeeded Jure Bilić as secretary of the Central Committee of the Union of Communists of Croatia ( SKH) (Savez komunista Hrvatske) and thus acted as party leader of the Communist Party in this republic of the SFRY until his replacement by Mika Špiljak in 1983.

Most recently, Vrhovec was on May 15, 1984 as a representative of the Socialist Republic of Croatia member of the Presidium of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and thus again successor to Mika Špiljak. He was a member of this collective body, which provided the President of the SJRY, until May 15, 1989. Subsequently, Stipe Šuvar became the rotating representative of Croatia in the state presidency.

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SURNAME Vrhovec, Josip
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Zagreb , Kingdom of Yugoslavia
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 2006
Place of death Zagreb , Croatia