Stjepan Ratković

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Stjepan Ratković (born October 10, 1878 in Glina , Austria-Hungary , † November 1, 1968 in Vahrn , Italy ) was a Yugoslav educator and envoy to the Third Reich .

biography

Ratković came from a Croatian family. He studied at the philosophical universities in Vienna and Zagreb . In 1906 he was professor at a grammar school in Zadar and at a teaching school in Arbanasi . In 1919 he was the director of several teachers' schools. Stjepan made a special contribution to the opening of a higher educational school in Zagreb in 1919, of which he was the director and professor. This was the first of its kind in what was then the Croatian part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Ratković was the initiator of the paper "Narodni učitelj" ( folk teacher ) in 1913 . 1920-1924 he was the editor of the educational magazine "Napredak" ( progress). In addition, Stjepan was the author of several school books. At the time of the fascist Independent State of Croatia , he was State Secretary in the Ministry of Education and then from 1941 to 1942 Minister of Education . Between 1943 and 1944 he was state envoy in Berlin . From 1946 until his death, Stjepan Ratković was professor of geography at the Capuchin grammar school in Vahrn.

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