Nikola Mak
Nikola Mak (born November 18, 1937 in Čeminac near Osijek , Yugoslavia ) is a Croatian association official and politician of the German minority .
Life
Mak first grew up in Čeminac (German: Laschkafeld ), which was then mostly inhabited by Yugoslav Germans . At the end of the war, his family was interned in a camp, where his father died. Mak studied law and later held a managerial position in the Osijek City Cultural Office.
In 1996 he was involved in the founding of Njemačke narodnosne zajednice - Zemaljske udruge podunavskih Švaba u Hrvatskoj (German Community - Landsmannschaft der Donauschwaben in Croatia), of which he is a member of the board to this day (2018). As a representative of the 12 smaller minorities, he was a member of the Croatian Parliament ( Sabor ) from 2003 to 2008 .
On July 30, 2011, the German Ambassador to Croatia, Bernd Fischer, presented him with the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class on behalf of Federal President Christian Wulff .
Web links
- Page about Nikola Mak as a Sabor MP
- German Cross of Merit for Nikola Mak , Donauschwäbische Kulturstiftung, September 5, 2011
- German Cross of Merit 1st Class to Nikola Mak , Donauschwäbische Arbeitsgemeinschaft in Austria, August 1st, 2011
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| SURNAME | Mak, Nikola |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Croatian politician and association official |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 18, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Čeminac near Osijek |