Miko Tripalo

Ante Miko Tripalo
(around 1953)

Tripalo's grave in the Mirogoj cemetery in Zagreb

Ante Miko Tripalo (born August 16, 1926 in Sinj , Kingdom of Yugoslavia , † December 11, 1995 in Zagreb , Croatia ) was a Yugoslav and Croatian politician.

Life

As a youth, Tripalo was a Tito partisan active in the resistance against the Axis regime and in 1943 became a member of the Communist Party . He became organizational secretary of the League of Communists for the Knin region (Croatia). After the end of the Second World War , he studied law. Between 1953 and 1955 he was President of the Yugoslav Students Union.

In 1962 he was elected secretary of the City Committee of the Union of Communists in Zagreb , from 1966 he was a member of the Central Committee of the Union of Communists of Croatia and from 1969 he was also a member of the Presidium and Executive Committee of the Union of Communists of Yugoslavia. He was one of the leading personalities of the Croatian Spring and campaigned for democratization and equality of the Yugoslav republics. In 1971 he was removed from office by the Yugoslav regime and expelled from the party in 1972.

In 1990 he was one of the co-founders of the Croatian People's Party with Savka Dabčević-Kučar . In 1993 he was elected to the Croatian Parliament Sabor .

Fonts

Hrvatsko proljeće [Croatian Spring] . Zagreb 2001.

literature

Enciklopedija Jugoslavije , 1st edition, Volume 8, 1971
Who's who in the socialist countries of Europe , ed. By Juliusz Stroynowski, Vol. 3, 1989 ISBN 3-598-10747-1

Individual evidence

↑ According Stroynowski he studied at the University of Zagreb , according to Encyclopedia of Yugoslavia, he received his diploma from the University of Belgrade ; it is unclear whether both apply (change of study location) or whether one of the two statements is incorrect.

personal data
SURNAME	Tripalo, Miko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Tripalo, Ante Miko (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Croatian and Yugoslav politician
DATE OF BIRTH	August 16, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sinj
DATE OF DEATH	December 11, 1995
Place of death	Zagreb

[uni-1] According Stroynowski he studied at the University of Zagreb , according to Encyclopedia of Yugoslavia, he received his diploma from the University of Belgrade ; it is unclear whether both apply (change of study location) or whether one of the two statements is incorrect.