Jure Bilić

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Jure Bilić (born September 12, 1922 in Makarska ; † January 27, 2006 in Zagreb , Croatia ) was a politician of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (BdKJ) from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY), who was chairman between 1982 and 1983 of the League of Communists of Croatia was.

Life

Bilić took part in the partisan war against the occupation of Yugoslavia from 1941 , the so-called "national liberation struggle of the peoples of Yugoslavia" during the Second World War . During this time he also joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPJ) as a member in April 1941 and was active as chairman of the League of Communist Youth in Dalmatia and as a member of the Central Committee of Communist Youth in Croatia. After the end of the war he took on numerous functions and was party secretary of the Dalmatia region in 1967. After the Croatian Spring he became party secretary of Zagreb and in 1972 as the successor to Miko Tripalo as a member of the executive office of the Central Committee of the BdKJ. He was re-elected to that capacity at the Tenth Congress in May 1974. In early August 1977, in an interview with the daily Vjesnik, he called for the rehabilitation of people like Miko Tripalo who had been expelled from the party after the Croatian Spring.

In 1978 Bilić replaced Ivo Perišin as President of the Parliament of the Socialist Republic of Croatia and held this position until 1982, after which he was replaced by Jovo Grčić . During this time he was also a member of the Presidium of the Union of Communists of Croatia . In May 1981 he stated that the standard of living in Yugoslavia had fallen by nine percent in 1980 and that the difficulties in the economy could get worse. He then took over from Milka Planinc as chairman of the Croatian Communist League in May 1982 and held this position until he was replaced by Josip Vrhovec on July 1, 1983. In this function he was the leader of the Communist Party in the Republic of Croatia and as such was a member of the Presidium of the Socialist Republic of Croatia between 1982 and 1983. He was also a member of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Union of Communists of Croatia (BdKJ) between 1982 and 1986.

Bilić has received several awards for his services, including the National Order of Merit, the Order for Fraternity and Unity, the Medal of Valor, the Medal of Labor, the Order of the Red Partisan Star and the 1941 Partisan Memorial Medal.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ YUGOSLAVIA / ELECTIONS: Rented donkeys . In: Der Spiegel from July 17, 1967
  2. ↑ YUGOSLAVIA: The devil knows. With the police and the military, Tito is fighting the “counter-revolution” in Croatia. Behind this are economic problems that Tito has to solve - without soldiers. . In: Der Spiegel from January 3, 1972
  3. ↑ YUGOSLAVIA: Empty bottles. For a month anti-communist partisans fought against 30,000 soldiers in the Bosnian mountains. . In: Der Spiegel from July 31, 1972
  4. ↑ YUGOSLAVIA: arm and miserable. Behind the palace cabala around Tito's wife Jovanka hides a newly inflamed nationality dispute - power struggles for the time after Tito. . In: Der Spiegel from October 31, 1977
  5. ↑ YUGOSLAVIA: blood flowed. Private entrepreneurs outperform state companies with high profits: the communist country already has several thousand millionaires. . In: Der Spiegel of December 4, 1978
  6. ↑ YUGOSLAVIA: Ideal Shepherd. After the Kosovo uprising has been put down, Belgrade wants to pacify the state of Croatia: through arrests. A persecution report sent to SPIEGEL is under the incriminating material. . In: Der Spiegel from May 18, 1981
  7. ^ Socialist Republic of Croatia: Secretaries of the Central Committee of the League of Communists (rulers.org)
personal data
SURNAME Bilić, Jure
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Makarska
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 2006
Place of death Zagreb , Croatia