Mirko Tepavac

Mirko Tepavac (1970)

Mirko Tepavac ( Serbian - Cyrillic Мирко Тепавац ; born August 13, 1922 in Zemun ; † August 28, 2014 in Belgrade ) was a Yugoslav politician.

Life

Mirko Tepavac joined the partisans in 1941 and became a member of the Communist Party in 1942 . He later became a member of the Regional Committee of the Communist League of Vojvodina .

From 1955 to 1959 he was director of Radio Belgrade , then Yugoslav ambassador to Hungary . From 1965 to 1967 he was editor of the newspaper Politika . He was then chairman of the Association of Communists of Vojvodina until 1969, from March 1969 a member of the party presidium at federal level and from May 1969 Foreign Minister of the SFR Yugoslavia . In November 1972 he was removed from office because of his liberal views.

From 1994-1996 he was president of the Evropski Pokret u Srbiji (epus, European Movement Serbia ). He was a regular author in the journal Republika published by Nebojša Popov .

Mirko Tepavac was married to the actress Renata Ulmanski (* 1929).

Works

• Division of Bosnia and Herzegovina between Serbia and Croatia - inevitable? Thoughts of the former Yugoslav Foreign Minister , in: Osteuropa , Vol. 46, 1996, pp. A473 – A476.
• Tito 1945–1980 , in: Jasminka Udovički and James Ridgeway (editors): Burn this house. The making and unmaking of Yugoslavia , 1997, ISBN 0822320010 .

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 .
• Christian Schmidt-Häuer: No distrust of Brandt , in: Die Zeit No. 49/1970.

Web links

• CV on the homepage of the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (English, with picture)
• Article about Tepavac on the epus homepage (Serbian, with newer picture)