Mladen Lorković

Mladen Lorković (born March 1, 1909 in Zagreb , † end of April 1945 in Lepoglava ) was a member of the Ustasha , politician and foreign minister from 1941 to 1943 and interior minister of the Independent State of Croatia from 1943 to 1944 . He was together with Ante Vokić (1909-1945) one of the organizers of the pro-Allied conspiracy Lorković-Vokić ( urota Lorković-Vokić). against the dictatorial leader Ante Pavelić and was executed for it.

Life

Lorković (2 from left) when he was sworn in as Foreign Minister (April 1941).

Lorkovic proceeds together with the German envoy Siegfried Kasche (left), a guard of honor of Ustasha militia from (Zagreb, May 1941).

State leader Ante Pavelić , the Slovak ambassador Karl Murgaš and Lorković (right).

Head of the secret service Kvaternik , commander of the Black Legion Francetić and Lorković (from left) on a bridge over the Drina , the then border river to Serbia ( Zvornik , April 1942)

Lorković was born in Zagreb in 1909 as the son of the lawyer and politician Ivan Lorković . Mladen Lorković was an active member of the Croatian Party of Law even as a high school student . He studied law in Zagreb . After the proclamation of the royal dictatorship in 1929 by the Yugoslav King Alexander I , he was threatened with arrest due to his political activities. Lorković went into exile on November 15, 1929 . In Berlin he was initially rejected by the then Alexander von Humboldt Foundation because of his political activities . Due to the intercession of the managing director of the foundation, Kurt Goepel (1901-1966), Lorkovic received a Humboldt from the academic year 1932-33 scholarship . In 1933, Goepel predicted that Lorković would “undoubtedly continue to play a leading role in his homeland in the future, thanks to his high academic and political qualifications”. With the help of the scholarship, Lorković initially studied political science and public law at the German University of Politics and the University of Berlin . After two extensions of his scholarship, Lorković moved to the Institute for International Law and received his doctorate there in 1938 under Carl Schmitt .

family

His brother Zdravko Lorković (1900-1998) was an entomologist with a worldwide reputation. His brother Blaž Lorković (1903-1947) was a political leader of the Ustaše and ambassador of the Independent State of Croatia for the Slovak State .

Fonts

Map based on the results of the Yugoslav census of 1931: Within the boundaries of the Croatian Banschaft or the later USK , Catholics and Muslims are identified as Croatians and proportionally represented (Lorković, 1939).

The right of the Macedonians to protection of minorities: Documents: The negotiations of the “Committee for New States” and the Supreme Council on the Macedonian question May - November 1919 . Carl Heymanns Verlag, Berlin 1934.
The emergence of the state of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes . Berlin 1938 (legal dissertation).
Narod i zemlja Hrvata [The people and the land of the Croats] . Matica hrvatska , Zagreb 1939 (German translation, Vienna 1941).
Croatia's struggle against Bolshevism . Velebit Bookstore, Zagreb 1944.

source

Slaven Ravlić: LORKOVIĆ, Mladen . In: Darko Stuparić (ed.): Tko je tko u NDH: Hrvatska 1941. – 1945. [Who is who in the NDH: Croatia 1941–1945] . Minerva, Zagreb 1997, p. 237-239 (Croatian).

literature

Nada Kisić Kolanović: Mladen Lorković: ministar urotnik [Mladen Lorković: The Minister Conspirator] . Ed .: Hrvatski državni arhiv. Golden marketing, Zagreb 1998.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Holger Impekoven: The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and foreign studies in Germany 1925–1945: From “noiseless propaganda” to training the “intellectual defense” of the “New Europe” (= International Relations. Theory and History . Volume 9 ). V&R unipress GmbH, 2013, ISBN 978-3-89971-869-0 , p. 314 .

personal data
SURNAME	Lorković, Mladen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Croatian politician
DATE OF BIRTH	March 1, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH	Zagreb
DATE OF DEATH	April 1945
Place of death	Lepoglava

[1] Holger Impekoven: The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and foreign studies in Germany 1925–1945: From “noiseless propaganda” to training the “intellectual defense” of the “New Europe” (= International Relations. Theory and History . Volume 9 ). V&R unipress GmbH, 2013, ISBN 978-3-89971-869-0 , p. 314 .