Savka Dabčević-Kučar

Savka Dabčević-Kučar (born December 11, 1923 in Korčula , † August 6, 2009 in Zagreb ) was a Yugoslav or Croatian politician. She was Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Croatia from 1967 to 1969 and then chaired the Central Committee of the Union of Communists of Croatia until her dismissal in 1971 . She was one of the most important leaders of the Croatian Spring .

Dabčević-Kučar was the first female party leader of a Yugoslav republic.

Life

After the Italian occupation forces arrested her brother during World War II, she joined the partisan movement in 1943.

Savka Dabčević-Kučar studied economics at the University of Zagreb from 1945 , spent two years in Leningrad, and received her doctorate on her return in Zagreb (1955). She was one of the first women in Croatia to get a doctorate in economics. In 1965 she became a full professor for political economy . From 1959 she was a member of the Central Committee of the Union of Communists of Yugoslavia .

Since she and Miko Tripalo , who also belonged to the Croatian Central Committee, had a relatively liberal attitude on the one hand and at the same time made demands of the Maspok (mass movement, so-called Croatian Spring ) for greater autonomy of the Socialist Republic of Croatia within Yugoslavia, they became their own in December 1971 discontinued.

With Miko Tripalo, she was one of the founders of the Croatian People's Party in 1990 . She was party leader from 1990 to 1994 and was a member of the Croatian Parliament from 1992 to 1995 .

Savka Dabčević was married to the mining engineer Ante Kučar (born March 11, 1923, † March 29, 2003, former director of the construction company Geotehnika ) since 1951 .

Works

71. hrvatski snovi i stvarnost ('71. Croatian Dreams and Reality), 1997 ( ISBN 953-6596-01-6 )

Awards

1968: Large silver medal on ribbon for services to the Republic of Austria

literature

Enciklopedija Jugoslavije , 2nd edition, Volume 3, 1984
Hrvatska enciklopedija , Volume 2, 2000

Individual evidence

↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)

personal data
SURNAME	Dabčević-Kučar, Savka
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Dabčević, Savka
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Yugoslav or Croatian politician
DATE OF BIRTH	December 11, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH	Korčula (town)
DATE OF DEATH	August 6, 2009
Place of death	Zagreb

[1] List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)