Stana Tomašević

Stana Tomašević (1944)

Stana Tomašević-Arnesen ( Cyrillic Стана Томашевић-Арнесен ; born April 28, 1921 in Bar , Kingdom of Yugoslavia ; † summer 1983 in Belgrade , SFR Yugoslavia ) was a Yugoslav politician , diplomat and partisan . She was the first political commissioner in World War II and the country's first ambassador in 1963 .

Life

Tomašević was born in Bar in 1921. She attended the teachers' seminars in Kragujevac , Cetinje and Sarajevo . As a primary school teacher, she taught from August 1940 in the village of Vrulja in the Opština Pljevlja . During the occupation of Montenegro by Italy , she was taken prisoner in April 1941. After the release, Tomašević joined the partisans with her brother Dušan ("Duško"). In July 1941 she joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ, Komunistička partija Jugoslavije ).

Tomašević fought in the NOP battalion “Jovan Tomašević” and later in the Fourth Proletarian Montenegrin Brigade ( Četvrta proletreska crnogorska narodno-oslobodilačka udarna brigada ) of the People's Liberation Army . Josip Broz Tito was the first woman to appoint her political commissioner ( politički radnik ). She survived the Battle of the Sutjeska in 1943 and the fighting for Drvar ( Operation Rösselsprung ) in June 1944 . After the Antifascist Council of the National Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ, Antifašističko v (ij) eće narodnog oslobođenja Jugoslavije ) decided in November 1942 to found the centralized Antifascist Women's Front of Yugoslavia (AFŽšistički front žena Jugoslavije elected eight in December) more women in the AFŽ Council. She became chairman of the Communist Youth Association SKOJ ( Savez komunističke omladine Jugoslavije ) and the Anti-Fascist Youth of Yugoslavia (USAOJ, Ujedinjeni savez antifašističke omladine Jugoslavije ). At the end of the war she was wounded twice and had the rank of colonel .

In 1944 Tomašević led the First Congress of Antifascist Youth (USAOJ) in Drvar. British military photographer John Talbot took a photo of her in partisan uniform on this occasion, which was printed on leaflets in the UK . These urged the youth to follow Tito's example. British planes dropped them all over Europe .

Tomašević was from 1949 to 1958 head of the education department of the Agitprop of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the JPY. In addition, she graduated from the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Belgrade in 1954 . From 1958 to 1963 Tomašević was Deputy State Secretary for Labor. During this time, she published some writings in the field of education, which also appeared in English or French .

Stana Tomašević (1963)

Tito appointed Tomašević as ambassador to Norway in 1963 , where she worked in Iceland until 1967 with a secondary accreditation . She married the actor and film producer Eugen Arnesen in Norway , who followed her to Yugoslavia. He was there director and writer of four documentaries . With Žorž Skrigin he made a documentary about Tito in 1965. Arnesen died in 1969. Tomašević was ambassador to Denmark from 1974 to 1978 . In the meantime she held party offices in the Socialist Republic of Montenegro and was President of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Federal Assembly . At an initiative of the European Social Democrats , which Tito wanted to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973, she led the talks on the Yugoslav side.

After her return to Yugoslavia, Tomašević was President (Spokeswoman) of the Federal Assembly from 1979 to 1982. As the highest woman in the country, she retired.

Stana Tomašević-Arnesen died of cancer in Belgrade in the summer of 1983. She was buried in the city's new cemetery in the "Allee der Volkshelden". Her brother gave numerous objects, documents and photographs from her estate to the museum in Bar.

family

Tomašević's brother Dušan was killed by Chetniks during fighting in Bosnia . Her younger brother Nebojša "Bato" Tomašević (1929–2017) was also a diplomat, journalist and publisher . On February 6, 1958, he was one of the survivors of the Munich aircraft accident .

Awards and honors

Tomašević has received high awards in Norway, Denmark, Italy , the Netherlands and Luxembourg . Yugoslavia awarded her the 1941 Partisan Medal and the Order of Brotherhood and Unity .

A street in Podgorica -Zabjelo got its name.

miscellaneous

The Norwegian resistance fighter and artist Arne Taraldsen (1917–1989) received one of the 1944 leaflets during the war and made a work of art by Tomašević. He made the brush from his own hair.

Fonts (selection)

Author

Škola i omladinske organizacije. Centr. Odbor Usaoj-a, Belgrade 1945.

Co-author

With Mustafa Begtić: Formation professionnelle des cadres en Yougoslavie. Belgrade 1961.
With Mustafa Begtić, Karla Kunc-Cizelj (translator): Vocational training in Yugoslavia. Publicističko-Izdavački Zavod “Jugoslavija”, 1961. Original title: Stručno obrazovanje kadrova u Jugoslaviji.

Co-editor

Otmar Kreačić: Osmi plenum Glavnog odbora SSRN Makedonije. Dvanaesti plenum Glavnog odbora SSRN Slovenije. Sedmi plenum Centralnog komiteta Saveza communist Srbije. Kultura, Belgrade 1958.

literature

Leksikon Narodnooslobodilačkog rata i revolucije u Jugoslaviji 1941–1945. Volume 2. Narodna knjiga, Beograd 1980. p. 1115.
Ko je ko u Jugoslaviji. Hronometar, Beograd 1970. p. 1082.

Web links

Commons : Stana Tomašević - collection of images, videos and audio files

Stana Tomašević Arnesen - prva žena komesar i prva ambasadorka u Crnoj Gori. In: muzejzena.me. Montenegrin Women's Museum(Montenegrin).; accessed on April 28, 2021
Partizanke Četvrte proleterske brigade. Drugarice iz 1. bataljona Četvrte proleterske brigade, na Sutjesci, 1942. godine. In: sh.wikipedia.org. 1942(Photograph of partisans of the Fourth Brigade from the holdings of the Muzej Istorije Jugoslavije).; accessed on April 28, 2021

Footnotes

↑ Barbara N. Wiesinger: Partisans. Resistance in Yugoslavia 1941–1945. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2008. ISBN 3-205-77736-0 . Pp. 42-43.
↑ Stana Tomašević Arnesen - prva žena komesar i prva ambasadorka u Crnoj Gori. In: muzejzena.me. Montenegrin Women's Museum, accessed April 28, 2021 (Montenegrin, photo above left).
↑ Eugene Arnesen. In: Internet Movie Database . Retrieved May 25, 2020 .
↑ Marc Reichwein: Josip Broz Tito: How could a dictator be so popular? In: welt.de . June 15, 2016, accessed April 28, 2021 .

personal data
SURNAME	Tomašević, Stana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Tomašević-Arnesen (married name); Томашевић-Арнесен, Стана (Serbian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Yugoslav politician, diplomat and partisan
DATE OF BIRTH	April 28, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bar , Kingdom of Yugoslavia
DATE OF DEATH	1983
PLACE OF DEATH	Belgrade , SFR Yugoslavia

[1] Barbara N. Wiesinger: Partisans. Resistance in Yugoslavia 1941–1945. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2008. ISBN 3-205-77736-0 . Pp. 42-43.

[2] Stana Tomašević Arnesen - prva žena komesar i prva ambasadorka u Crnoj Gori. In: muzejzena.me. Montenegrin Women's Museum, accessed April 28, 2021 (Montenegrin, photo above left).

[3] Eugene Arnesen. In: Internet Movie Database . Retrieved May 25, 2020 .

[4] Marc Reichwein: Josip Broz Tito: How could a dictator be so popular? In: welt.de . June 15, 2016, accessed April 28, 2021 .