Marijan Cvetković
Marijan Cvetković ( Serbian - Cyrillic Маријан Цветковић ; born October 13, 1920 in Sisak , Sisak-Moslavina County , Kingdom of Yugoslavia ; † September 12, 1990 in Zagreb , Yugoslavia ) was a politician of the Union of Communists of Yugoslavia (BdKJ). He was awarded the Order of the People's Heroes for his participation in the partisan war in World War II and was chairman of the Presidium of the Socialist Republic of Croatia between 1982 and 1983 .
Life
Engagement in the communist youth movement
Cvetković, the son of a dock worker, came during the visit of high school in 1935 in Zagreb due to the father's contact to the labor movement in the Union of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia SKOJ ( Croatian Savez komunističke Omladine Jugoslavije , Serbian - Cyrillic Савез комунистичке омладине Југославије ) a. In 1936 he returned to his hometown Sisak, where he got involved in the youth movement while attending the local high school. Because of this activity he was arrested in 1937 and banned from further school attendance, whereby he completed his education at private schools. In 1938 he joined the Communist Party of Croatia (KPH) as a member and began studying at the University of Economics and Commerce in Zagreb. At the same time, however, he remained connected to his hometown and was first secretary of the city committee and then secretary of the SKOJ district committee. In late 1939 he was elected a member of the Provincial Committee of the SKOJ of Croatia. He was subsequently arrested twice for his political activities, but released from pretrial detention for lack of evidence.
Second World War and Partisan War
After the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was occupied and dissolved by Germany and Italy in April 1941 , Cvetković, together with other communists, began participating in the partisan war , the so-called "National Liberation Struggle of the Peoples of Yugoslavia". First he organized the collection of raw materials and weapons in the Sisak-Moslavina County in the underground movement . After the invasion of by Ante Pavelić led Croatian extreme right - terrorist secret society Ustasha in Sisak he was first arrested again but released shortly thereafter again.
After the start of Operation Barbarossa , the invasion of the German Wehrmacht on the Soviet Union , founded Cvetkovic in the village Žabno the Sisak-partisan group ( Croatian Sisački Partizanski odred , Serbian - Cyrillic Сисачки партизански одред ) , the guerrilla units under the command of Vlado Janić was assumed . As the commander of this partisan group, Cvetković was involved in numerous combat missions on strategically important points such as tin mines, the Zagreb-Sisak railway line and telegraph stations. In August 1941 he was transferred to the Banovina region and subsequently took on numerous functions in the local partisan units, for example as a political officer and then in May 1942 as deputy commander of these units. In this role he took part in numerous combat missions in Kuljani , Bosanski Novi , Čuntić and Bačug.
In the late summer of 1942, Cvetković was transferred to Moslavina, where he assumed command of the Moslavački bataljon ( Moslavina battalion) of the partisan units. With this and two other battalions it forms the end of 1942 in Slavonia , a Division of the People's Liberation Army ( Croatian Narodnooslobodilačka vojska Jugoslavije , Serbian - Cyrillic Народноослободилачка војска Југославије ) and takes in the aftermath of fighting in this Čazma , Velika Pisanica and Ivanjska part. In January 1943 he was first political commissar of the 16th youth brigade " Joža Vlahović " under the command of Radovan Knežević and then in mid-1943 he was political commissar of the 12th Slavonian Division, before he was appointed deputy political commissar of the VI. Slavonian Corps, whose commanding general was Major General Petar Drapšin . With these units he also took part in several significant combat missions in Voćin , Garešnica , Virovitica , Sirač , Pakrac , Našice , Okučani , Lepoglava , Jalkovec and Kutjevo from the spring of 1943 . In February 1944 he finally became secretary of the Communist Party in the Sisak-Moslavina County and, in late 1944, head of the secret service OZNA (Орган Заштите Народа Армије) in northern Croatia.
Offices in the SFRY and President of SR Croatia
After the end of the war and the establishment of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Cvetković took over numerous functions in government and in the Communist Party. At first he was head of the secret service OZNA in the Socialist Republic of Croatia and from 1946 to 1947 then Assistant Minister in the Ministry of the Interior of Croatia. He then acted between 1947 and 1950 as President of the Planning Commission and President of the Council for Public Health of the SR Croatia.
In 1948 Cvetković became a member of the Central Committee (ZK) of the Union of Communists of Croatia and was a member of this party body until 1969. After he was secretary of the Croatian Committee of the Socialist Alliance of the Working People of Yugoslavia (Социјалистички савез радног народа Југославије) , the largest and most influential mass organization of the SFRY,
1950 to 1954 he was Minister for Health and Social Affairs of SR Croatia and then from 1954 to 1957 Chairman of the Council for Agriculture. As such, he was appointed a member of the Executive Council of SR Croatia on February 6, 1953 and thus served as a minister in the government of the chairmen of the Executive Council Vladimir Bakarić and Jakov Blažević until February 4, 1957 in this republic . On November 27, 1953 he was awarded the Order of the People's Hero (Орден народног хероја) .
In 1958, Cvetković was briefly Secretary for Industry and a member of the Federal Executive Council, making it Industry Minister of the SFRY. He then served as secretary of the City Party Committee of Zagreb between 1958 and 1962. At the VII Congress of the BdKJ, which took place in Ljubljana from April 22 to 26, 1958 , he was elected for the first time as a member of the BdKJ Central Committee and was re-elected at the VIII Congress from December 7 to 13, 1964 in Belgrade . He belonged to this party committee until the IX. Congress of the BdKJ, which took place again from March 11th to 15th, 1969 in Belgrade. In addition, from 1962 to 1966 he was organizational secretary of the Central Committee of the Union of Communists of Croatia and between 1966 and 1969 he was also a member of the Executive Committee of the Central Committee of the Union of Communists of Croatia.
He was also President of the Federal Administration of the Federation of Veterans' Union SUBNOR (Савез удружења бораца Народноослободилачког рата Југославије) and then Vice-President of the Yugoslav Assembly from 1974 to 1978. Furthermore, between 1978 and 1979 he was chairman of the committee of the Socialist Alliance of the Working People of Yugoslavia in the SR Croatia and between 1978 and 1982 he was again a member of the Central Committee of the Union of Communists of Croatia as well as a member of the presidium of this body.
In 1980 he was awarded the order of “Hero of Socialist Labor” (Орден јунака социјалистичког рада) .
As the successor to Jakov Blažević , he became chairman of the Presidium of the Socialist Republic of Croatia on May 10, 1982, and was thus president of this republic until he was replaced by Milutin Baltić on May 10, 1983. On the XII. Congress of the BdKJ from June 26th to 29th 1982 in Belgrade Cvetković was re-elected to the Central Committee of the BdKJ and belonged to this body until the XIII. Congress of the BdKJ, which took place between June 25 and 28, 1986 in Belgrade.
Cvetkovic was beyond for his achievements and contributions with the Order of Merit (Орден заслуга за народ) , the Order of Brotherhood and Unity (Орден братства и јединства) , the Order of the partisan star (Орден партизанске звезде) , the bravery (Орден за храброст) and the commemorative medal for partisans from 1941 (Партизанска споменица 1941) . After his death on September 12, 1990, he was buried in the Mirogoj cemetery in Zagreb.
Web links
- Biography in the Hrvatski biografski leksikon (online version)
- Biography on the homepage deseti-korpus.com (Croatian)
- Presidents of Croatia (rulers.org)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cvetković, Marijan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Yugoslav politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 13, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sisak , Sisak-Moslavina County , Kingdom of Yugoslavia |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 12, 1990 |
| Place of death | Zagreb , Croatia |