Svetozar Vukmanović-Tempo

Svetozar Vukmanović-Tempo

Svetozar Vukmanović-Tempo ( Serbian - Cyrillic Светозар Вукмановић ; born August 3, 1912 , † December 6, 2000 in Reževići ) was a Yugoslav politician .

Vukmanović, the son of a Montenegrin mountain farmer, joined the communist student movement while studying law at the University of Belgrade and became one of its functionaries.

After completing his studies in 1937, he devoted himself to work for the Communist Party , which was banned in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia , and was elected to the Central Committee in 1940. After the invasion of the German and Italian troops in the spring of 1941, Vukmanović, who now Tito gave him the cover name Tempo, became head of party technology and a member of the party military staff. 1941/42 Commander of the People's Liberation Army for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Tempo went to Macedonia as partisan chief at the end of 1942 .

In the post-war years, Vukmanović-Tempo was initially deputy defense minister and senior political officer in the Yugoslav army (until 1948), then held important positions in the federal government, of which he was vice-president between 1953 and 1958. He then headed the Yugoslav trade unions (until 1967). He belonged to the closest party leadership as a member of the presidium until 1969.

Works

• My way with Tito. A revolutionary remembers . Munich 1972

Web links

• Literature by and about Svetozar Vukmanović-Tempo in the catalog of the German National Library