Vladimir Bakarić

Vladimir Bakarić (1966)

Vladimir Bakarić ( Serbian - Cyrillic Владимир Бакарић ; born March 8, 1912 in Velika Gorica , † January 16, 1983 in Zagreb ) was a politician in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia .

Life

Vladimir Bakarić was a communist student leader while studying law at the University of Zagreb in the 1930s; he received his doctorate in 1937. After the occupation of Yugoslavia by the German armed forces, he was one of the organizers of the Yugoslav People's Liberation Army . There he worked as political commissioner, at the second meeting of the AVNOJ in November 1943 in Jajce he was appointed a member of the National Liberation Committee. He was considered a close confidante of President Josip Broz Tito and in 1948 became a member of the Central Committee of the Union of Communists of Yugoslavia (BDKJ). As the successor to the ousted Andrija Hebrang , he became the Croatian party leader in 1948.

Together with Edvard Kardelj , with whom he was friends, he belonged to the liberal wing of the party. In February 1948 both were with the Soviet head of state Josef Stalin , in June 1948 there was a break between the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, whose leadership insisted on its own path and rejected Stalinism . Bakarić then ended the forced collectivization of agriculture in Croatia.

He was one of the initiators of the economic reform of 1964/65. In 1966 Bakarić was involved in the disempowerment of the Yugoslav interior minister, Aleksandar Ranković , who had Stalinist and Serbian nationalist tendencies. During the Croatian mass movement (so-called Croatian Spring ) he took a balancing position between centralists and Croatian nationalists.

Honors

1967: Large gold medal on ribbon for services to the Republic of Austria
1976: Grand Cross of the Order of Infante Dom Henrique
After his death, the University of Rijeka was named after Vladimir Bakarić (until the early 1990s).

Works

Socijalisticki samoupravni sistem i Drustvena reprodukcija ; German translation: The theoretical foundations of social reproduction in socialism , 1975
The continuation of Tito's policy is our only alternative , in: Sozialistische theory und Praxis , May 1980, pp. 11-27

literature

Vladimir Bakarić 1912-1983 , in: Socialist Theory and Practice , Issue 1/1983, pp. 3–143
Enciklopedija Jugoslavije , 2nd edition, Volume 1, 1980
Munzinger Archive Biographies, Delivery 17/1983 Sheet P 010861-6 / 16
Hrvatska Enciklopedija , Volume 1, 1999
Heiko Flottau, An independent who knew his limits (obituary article), in: Süddeutsche Zeitung of January 17, 1983, p. 3

Individual evidence

↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF file; 6.59 MB)

personal data
SURNAME	Bakarić, Vladimir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Yugoslav politician
DATE OF BIRTH	March 8, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH	Velika Gorica
DATE OF DEATH	January 16, 1983
Place of death	Zagreb

[1] List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF file; 6.59 MB)