Stjepan Đureković

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Stjepan Đureković ( transcribed also Djureković * 8. August 1926 in Bukovac at Petrovaradin ; † 28. July 1983 in Wolfratshausen ) was a Yugoslav industrial managers , system critics and writers , who by the Yugoslav secret police was murdered.

Prior to his murder who was one Croat Đureković According to the news magazine Spiegel the most vocal critics of the socialist Yugoslavia. He was one of at least 22 Croatian exiles who, according to investigators, were murdered in Germany between 1970 and 1989.

Life

As Marketing Director of the Yugoslav state oil company INA, Đureković maintained close contacts with the political and economic elite of Yugoslavia.

In April 1982 Đureković fled to Munich , where many Croatians in exile were staying. He brought three manuscripts for books critical of the regime, which he published in Germany under the Serbo-Croatian titles (in German) Ich, Josip Broz-Tito , Kommunismus: Der große Betrug und Rote Manager .

According to the findings of the 6th Criminal Senate of the Munich Higher Regional Court , the Council for the Defense of the Constitutional Order of the Yugoslav Republic of Croatia ordered the liquidation of Đureković by the Yugoslav secret police Služba državne bezbednosti (SDB).

Josip Perković , who worked as head of the hostile emigration department of the Yugoslav secret service in Zagreb , was commissioned by his superior, Zdravko Mustač , to plan and prepare the murder of Đureković in the spring of 1982 . For this purpose, Perković contacted his informant, Krunoslav P., who was in close contact with Đureković and enjoyed his trust. After the Perković had let his informant in on the project, they decided to stop the attack in a u. a. Đureković used the garage in Wolfratshausen as a printing company . As a result, Krunoslav P. procured a duplicate key to the garage, which Perković passed on to the later perpetrators himself or through third parties. With this duplicate key, the so far not clearly identified assassins reached the garage on Sauerlacher Strasse in Wolfratshausen, where they ambushed Đureković on July 28, 1983 and killed Đureković with six pistol shots in the back and arms and one blow in the head. The police assumed three murderers.

With the participation of several hundred people, Đureković was buried on August 5, 1983 in the Munich forest cemetery.

Only four years later, his son Damir Đureković (1954–1987) was probably also murdered in Canada .

Connections to intelligence services

The German television journalists Philipp Grüll and Frank Hofmann came across a note from the Munich police headquarters while researching a TV documentary . Accordingly, on January 25, 1983, almost six months before the murder of Đureković, an officer from the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) reported to Police Department 14 and announced that “a former BND employee was currently at serious risk from the Yugoslav secret service” . It was Stjepan Đureković. In the later trial, the defendants' defense lawyers also stated that Đureković had ties to the BND.

Criminal proceedings

In July 2008, Krunoslav Prates was sentenced to life imprisonment for complicity in murder .

In January 2014, shortly after joining the EU , under pressure from Germany, Croatia extradited the former head of the SDS secret service, Zdravko Mustač (* 1942) and his colleague Josip Perković (* 1945). From October 17, 2014, the 7th criminal division of the Munich Higher Regional Court was tried for the murder of Đureković. At the beginning of August 2016, both were sentenced to life imprisonment. In May 2018, the Federal Court of Justice rejected the defendants' appeals, making the 2016 ruling now final. In 2019 Perković was transferred back to Croatia.

Fonts

  • Yes, Josip Broz-Tito . [I, Josip Broz-Tito]. International Books, Munich 1982.
  • Komunizam. Velika prevara . [Communism. The Big Fraud]. International Books, 1982.
  • Sinovi orla = Bijt ʼ e shqiponjës . [The Sons of the Eagle]. International Books (around 1982).
  • Slom ideala. Ispovijed Titovog ministra . [Collapse of ideals. The confession of Tito's minister]. International Books, 1983.
  • Crveni manageri . [Red Manager]. International Books, 1983.
  • Yugoslavia in Crisis. The Political and Economic Dimensions . Croatian National Congress, New York 1983.

See also

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Contract murder after 31 years in Munich in court: Yugoslavian state secrets. In: Spiegel Online. October 16, 2014, accessed September 26, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Tom Sundermann: Yugoslavia Trial: Murder Command from Home. In: Zeit Online. July 22, 2015, accessed September 26, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Trial of Yugoslav intelligence officers: murder victim spied for the BND. In: Spiegel Online. October 8, 2015, accessed September 26, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Prof. Dr. von Heintschel-Heinegg, Dr. Dauster, Dr. Schneider: Judgment against Krunoslav Prates for murder, Az. 6 St 005/05 (2) . Ed .: Higher Regional Court of Munich. July 16, 2008 ( safaric-safaric.si [PDF]).
  5. ↑ http://www.justiz.bayern.de/gericht/olg/m/presse/archiv/2014/04398/
  6. ^ Munich: Croatian ex-agents convicted of murder. In: Zeit Online. August 3, 2016, accessed September 26, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Press release of the Munich Higher Regional Court from 2014 , accessed on August 3, 2016
  8. ^ Munich: Croatian ex-agents sentenced to life imprisonment for murder. In: Spiegel Online. August 3, 2016, accessed September 26, 2016 .
  9. ↑ BGH. The verdict for the murder of a Croatian exile in 1983 is final. In: beck aktuell, Verlag CHBeck, May 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Đureković, Stjepan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Djureković, Stjepan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav industrial manager, system critic and writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Bukovac near Petrovaradin
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 1983
Place of death Wolfratshausen