List of Government Members of the Independent State of Croatia (1941–1945)

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This list contains the members of the government and other leading politicians of the Independent State of Croatia (1941–1945).

Swearing-in of the members of the first government of the Independent State of Croatia by Poglavnik Ante Pavelić (April 16, 1941, 8 p.m.).

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Official leader : Poglavnik .

Deputy Leader
Official: Poglavnikov zamjenik .

  • April 16, 1941 to October 1942: Slavko Kvaternik (1878–1947)
    Kvaternik left Croatia in October 1942 because of differences with Pavelić; formally he held his offices until January 1943. After Kvaternik there was no more appointment.

President of the Government
Official: Predsjednik vlade .

  • April 16, 1941 to September 2, 1943: Ante Pavelić
  • September 2, 1943 to May 1945: Nikola Mandić (1869–1945)

Vice-President of the Government
Official: Potpredsjednik vlade .

State chief notary - keeper of the state seal (protonotary)
Official: Državni pribilježnik - čuvar državnog pečata .
The protonotary was chairman of the State Council and keeper of the Great and Small State Seal of the Independent State of Croatia. If necessary, he countersigned laws, decrees, and state acts and sealed them. Originally, both seals were to be kept by the incumbent Minister of Justice.

  • October 11, 1942 to October 11, 1943: Mirko Puk
  • October 11, 1943 to May 1945: Andrija Artuković (see above)

Minister for Foreign Affairs
Official: Ministar vanjskih poslova .

Minister of the Croatian Home Guard (1941) / Minister of the Armed Forces (from 1943)
Official: Ministar Hrvatskog domobranstva / Ministar oružanih snage .
1941 with authority over the regular armed forces ( Hrvatsko domobranstvo ) and without authority over the Ustascha militia ( Ustaška vojnica ), which was subordinate to the Minister of the Interior. From 1943 renaming and restructuring. From November 21, 1944 with authority over the regular armed forces and the Ustascha militia, united as "Croatian Armed Forces" ( Hrvatske oružane snage, HOS ) .

  • April 16, 1941 to October 1942: Slavko Kvaternik (see above)
  • 1942 to 1943: Vilko Begić (1874–1946?)
  • August 1943 to the end of January 1944: Miroslav Navratil (1893–1947)
  • End of January 1944 to August 31, 1944 (arrested): Ante Vokić (1909–1945), also Minister of Transport
  • September 1, 1944 to May 6, 1945: Nikola Steinfl (1889–1945)

Minister of Internal Affairs
Official: Ministar unutarnjih poslova .
Until November 20, 1944 also with authority over the Ustaška militia ( Ustaška vojnica ).

  • April 16, 1941 to October 1942: Andrija Artuković (1899–1988)
  • ?
  • around mid-1943 to October 11, 1943: Andrija Artuković (see above)
  • October 1943 to August 31, 1944 (arrested): Mladen Lorković (see above)
  • September 1, 1944 to May 6, 1945: Mate Frković (1901–1987)

Minister of Justice (1941) / Minister of Justice and Religion (from 1942/43)
Official: Ministar pravosuđa / Ministar pravosuđa i bogoštovlja .
From 1942/43 also responsible for questions of religion (until then with the Minister for Religion and Education).

  • April 16, 1941 to 1942?: Mirko Puk (1884–1945)
  • October 1942 to around mid-1943: Andrija Artuković (see above)
  • ?: Jozo Dumandčić (1900–1977)

Minister of Finance
Official: Ministar financija .

  • ? (unclear whether at all): Valdemar Lunaček (1893–1963)
  • 1944–1945 (?): Dragutin Toth (1890–1971)

Minister of Crafts, Industry and Trade
Official: Ministar obrta, veleobrta i trgovine .

Minister of Agriculture
Official: Ministar poljoprivrede .

Minister of Forestry and Natural Resources
Official: Ministarstvo šumarstva i rudarstva .

  • April 16, 1941 to?: Ivica Frković (1894–1980)
  • 1943 to 1945 (?): Josip Balen (see above)

Minister of Religion and Education / Minister of National Education
Official: Ministar bogoštovlja i nastave / Ministar narodne prosvjete .
The “national education” also included responsibility for propaganda . In 1942 responsibility for religion was transferred to the Minister of Justice.

Minister for Social Policy
Official: Ministar socijalne politike .

Minister for Reconstruction / Minister for Supplying War-Torn Areas
Official: Ministar obnove / Ministar skrbi za postradale krajeve .

  • October 11, 1943 to May 5, 1944: Mehmed Alajbegović
  • August 30, 1944 to May 1945: Mehmed Mehičić († 1967)

Minister for the Liberated Areas
Official: Ministar za oslobođene krajeve .
“Liberated areas” were the coastal areas ceded to Italy by the Independent State of Croatia in 1941, the reincorporation of which was proclaimed after Italy's surrender on September 8, 1943.

  • September 1943 to May 1945: Edo Bulat (1901–1984)

Minister of National Economy
Official: Ministar narodnog gospodarstva .

Minister of Health
Official: Ministar zdravstva .

Minister of Transport
Official: Ministar saobraćaja .

  • ?: Pavao Canki
  • October 11, 1943 to September 1, 1944: Ante Vokić (1909–1945), also Minister of the Armed Forces

Minister for Associations
Official: Ministar udružba .

President of the Legislative Committee
Official: Predsjednik zakonodavnog povjerenstva .

Minister with no portfolio

literature

  • Peter Truhart: Regents of Nations: Systematic Chronology of States and Their Political Representatives in Past and Present: a Biographical Reference Book . Part III, Volume 1. Central, Eastern, Northern, Southern, South East Europe . Saur, Munich / New York / London / Paris 1986, ISBN 3-598-10515-0 , p. 3350. (Information on Führer, Head of Government and Foreign Minister)
  • Bogdan Krizman: Ustaše i Treći Reich (The Ustasche and the Third Reich). 2 volumes Globus, Zagreb 1983.
  • Hrvatska Enciklopedija . (Croatian encyclopedia). Leksikografski zavod "Miroslav Krleža", Zagreb 1999–2009. (Article on the individual persons;abbreviatedas HE in the footnotes)

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Individual evidence

Here the sources for the z. Sometimes contradicting or unclear information is given:

  1. ^ A b c to Ante Pavelić: According to Truhart Führer from April 1941 to May 6, 1945, Prime Minister April 14, 1941 to 1943, Foreign Minister April 16, 1941 to June 11, 1941. It is unclear why his term of office as Fuehrer ended here May 6th, but the end of Alajbegović's term of office as Foreign Minister is indicated on May 9th. Further, in Truhart given Pavelić was from 1945 to 1959 head of government of the NDH government in exile in Argentina. In fact, some time after the overthrow of the Argentine President Juan Perón , he left for Spain via Chile because he feared that the new Argentine leadership could extradite him to Yugoslavia.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Odredba o imenovanju Prve Hrvatske Državne Vlade (Law on the appointment of the First Croatian State Government) of April 16, 1941. Narodne novine, April 17, 1941.
  3. ↑ to Nikola Mandić: According to Truhart, Prime Minister from September 2, 1943 to 1945.
  4. ↑ § 4 of the Act on State Coats of Arms, State Flag, Standard of Poglavnik, State Seal, Seal of State and Local Government Offices of April 28, 1941.
  5. ↑ a b to Mladen Lorković: According to Truhart Foreign Minister from June 11, 1941 to 1943.
  6. ^ To Mile Budak: According to Truhart Foreign Minister from April 23, 1943 to November 5, 1943. According to HE Minister for Religion and Education in the first NDH government, then envoy in Berlin from November 1941 to April 1943, foreign minister from then until November 1943 .
  7. ↑ on Branko Benzon: Not mentioned in Truhart ; according to Krizman vol. 1 p. 171 Foreign Minister from around October 9, 1943; there is no article about him in the HE .
  8. ↑ on Stijepo Perić: According to Truhart Foreign Minister from November 5, 1943 to May 2, 1944.
  9. ↑ a b to Mehmed Alajbegović: According to Truhart Foreign Minister from May 5, 1944 to May 9, 1945. Why his term of office until May 9, which Pavelić as leader only mentions until May 6, is unclear. Alajbegović's successor, i.e. Foreign Minister of the NDH government in exile in Argentina, is given here as Marko Pejačević. According to HE from January 27, 1942 Consul General in Munich, from October 11, 1943 ministar skrbi za postradale krajeve , from May 5, 1944 foreign minister.
  10. ↑ a b Edmund Glaise von Horstenau: A General in the Twilight. The memories of Edmund Glaise von Horstenau . Peter Broucek (Ed.). 3rd volume, Böhlau, Vienna 1988, p. 39.
  11. ↑ Edmund Glaise von Horstenau: A general in the twilight. The memories of Edmund Glaise von Horstenau . Peter Broucek (Ed.). 3rd volume, Böhlau, Vienna 1988, p. 445, footnote 15 and 451.
  12. ↑ Edmund Glaise von Horstenau: A general in the twilight. The memories of Edmund Glaise von Horstenau . Peter Broucek (Ed.). Volume 3, Böhlau, Vienna 1988, p. 448, footnote 21.
  13. ↑ Edmund Glaise von Horstenau: A general in the twilight. The memories of Edmund Glaise von Horstenau . Peter Broucek (Ed.). Volume 3, Böhlau, Vienna 1988, p. 445, footnote 15.
  14. ↑ Edmund Glaise von Horstenau: A general in the twilight. The memories of Edmund Glaise von Horstenau . Peter Broucek (Ed.). Volume 3, Böhlau, Vienna 1988, p. 448, footnote 20.
  15. ^ Hrvoje Matković: Povijest Nezavisne Države Hrvatske (History of the Independent State of Croatia). Naklada Pavičić, Zagreb 1994, ISBN 953-6308-00-2 , p. 228.
  16. ↑ Aleksandar Vojinović: Ante Pavelić . Centar za informacije i publicitet, Zagreb 1988, p. 314.
  17. ↑ Edmund Glaise von Horstenau: A general in the twilight. The memories of Edmund Glaise von Horstenau . Peter Broucek (Ed.). Volume 3, Böhlau, Vienna 1988, p. 373, footnote 32.