Milka Planinc

Milka Planinc

Milka Planinc ( Cyrillic  Милка Планинц ; born November 21, 1924 in Drniš , Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes ; † October 7, 2010 in Zagreb , Croatia ) was a Yugoslav politician ( Prime Minister 1982–1986).

Life

Milka Planinc joined the partisans after the German occupation of the country in 1941 , and in 1944 she joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, the predecessor of the Union of Communists of Yugoslavia (BdKJ). After the war she attended the higher administrative school in Zagreb . From 1959 she was a member of the Central Committee of the Union of Communists of Croatia (part of the federally organized BdKJ), from 1963 to 1965 she was Minister of Culture of the Socialist Republic of Croatia .

As the successor to Savka Dabčević-Kučar , who was deposed because of her support for the Croatian Spring , she became party leader of the Union of Communists of Croatia on December 13, 1971 .

On May 15, 1982, she became the first woman to become chairwoman of the Federal Executive Council (i.e. Prime Minister or Head of Government) of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia . This office was always transferred for four years.

During her tenure as Prime Minister, she traveled abroad to the United Kingdom , Bulgaria , France , the United States , the Soviet Union , the GDR and Austria . She met the German Chancellor Helmut Kohl during his visit to Yugoslavia in June 1985.

Fonts

• Savez Komunista Jugoslavije u socijalističkom samoupravljanju (The Union of Communists of Yugoslavia in Socialist Self-Government), 1982

literature

• Munzinger Archive , International Biographical Archive, Lfg. 40/1989
• Dessa Trevisan, Yugoslavia's iron-nerved lady , in: The Times, November 15, 1983, p. 5.
• Former communists: where are they now? (II). Southeastern Europe , in: Transition ( ISSN  1211-0205 , Issue 10/1996, pp. 26-29.