Nikola Hećimović

Nikola Hećimović

Nikola Hećimović (born November 4, 1900 in Zagreb , † April 25, 1929 near the Church of the Holy Spirit on Osterberg ) was a Yugoslav communist .

Life

Honorary tomb in the Mirogoj cemetery; Hećimović's name (fourth from top)

Hećimović attended the industrial academy in Zagreb. In 1919 he became a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ). In 1920 he continued his studies in Prague . In 1921 he returned to Zagreb and was active in the Communist Youth Association of Yugoslavia (SKOJ). In 1921 he was one of the organizers of the International Red Aid . In 1928 he became secretary of the Red Aid of Yugoslavia.

After the proclamation of the royal dictatorship of Alexander I on January 6, 1929 and the ban on the Communist Party and the trade unions , Hećimović was persecuted. On April 20, 1929, he was arrested in Zagreb and tortured for days in police custody. Hećimović was shot together with the organization secretary of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, Ðuro Ðaković , on April 25, 1929 on the Yugoslav- Austrian border.

Honors

• Hećimović was buried in the crypt of honor in the Mirogoj cemetery in Zagreb.
• The murder of Hećimović and Ðaković and the events leading up to it were filmed by Miroslav Jokić in 1976 under the title Četiri dana do smrti ("Four days to death").
• The Yugoslav Post Office issued a special stamp to mark the 50th anniversary of the murder of Hećimović and Ðaković in 1979.

literature

• Josip Broz Tito : Sabrana djela [Collected Works]. Volume 17. Institut za savremenu istoriju, Belgrade 1984, p. 424.
• Kurt Schilde, Dagmar Schulte: Need and care. Glimpses into the beginnings of Eastern Europe's professional welfare. Barbara Budrich Publishers, Opladen 2005, p. 56

Web links

• Sandra Prlenda et al .: History of Social Work in Croatia 1900–1960 . Final report, Part One: 1900–1945 (PDF; 213 kB). University of Siegen n.d., p. 59.