Ljubomir Davidović

Ljubomir Davidović

Ljubomir Davidović ( Serbian - Cyrillic Љубомир Давидовић ), also: Ljuba Davidović (born December 24, 1863 in Vlaško Polje , Serbia ; †  February 19, 1940 in Belgrade ) was a Yugoslav politician . He served as Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes between 1919 and 1920 and 1924.

Davidović became a member of the Serbian parliament in 1901 and was a co-founder of the Independent Radical People's Party , of which he became head in 1912. From 1910 to 1914 he was mayor of Belgrade. Between 1914 and 1917 he was minister of culture in the cabinet under Prime Minister  Nikola Pašić and in 1918 in the first Yugoslav government.

In 1919 he became the head of the newly formed Democratic Party, which he remained until the end of his life. On August 16, 1919, he became the third Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia with her. He held this office until February 19, 1920. 1919-20 he was also the chairman of the Democratic Socialist Coalition. On July 28, 1924, he was again Prime Minister under a short-lived coalition of Democrats, Slovenian clergy and Bosnian Muslims with the support of the Croatian Peasant Party . This coalition only lasted four months and was dissolved on November 6th.

Web links

• Biography on Britannica (english)
• Short biography (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ljuba Davidović died . In: The Danube. Weekly newspaper for the catholic Germanness of Yugoslavia . No. 8/1940, February 24, 1940, VI. Vintage. Berenc, Apatin 1940, ZDB -ID 2129632-7 , p. 1.