Moma Marković

Moma Marković (born November 16, 1912 in Popović , Mladenovac , Serbia , † August 7, 1992 in Belgrade ) was a Yugoslav functionary .

Life

Marković studied medicine in Belgrade . In 1933 he became a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ). In 1935 he was sentenced to nine months in prison for revolutionary activity. With the partisans he worked from 1941 as the organizer of the uprising in Serbia . He was a Serbian CPY functionary, political commissar of the main staff ( Glavni štab ) of the partisans in Serbia and a member of the council of the first and second meetings of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ).

After the Second World War , Marković was Minister in the Government of the People's Republic of Serbia, from 1953 a member of the Federal Executive Council , on V. (1948), VI. (1952), VII. (1958) and VIII. (1964) party congresses elected to the Central Committee of the CPJ and from 1952 of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (SKJ). 1963 to 1969 director of the NIP Borba (newspaper) , the party newspaper, published by the Socialist Union of the Working People of Yugoslavia (SSRNJ). He later served on the Presidium of the Conference of the SSRNJ.

Received medals for his deeds:

• Bearer of partisan souvenir 1941, (Partisanske spomenice 1941)
• Order of the folk hero
• Order of the People's Liberation

as well as other awards and medals.

He was the father of Mirjana Marković , the wife of Slobodan Milošević .