Vladimir Dedijer

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Vladimir Dedijer on the cover of a Yugoslav magazine (1969)

Vladimir Dedijer ( Serbian - Cyrillic Владимир Дедијер ; born February 4, 1914 in Belgrade , Kingdom of Serbia ; † December 1, 1990 in Boston , USA ) was a Yugoslav partisan , journalist , politician , historian , author and confidante of Josip Broz Tito .

Life

Dedijer came from a Bosnian family who were close to the Karađorđević royal family and who were nationally Serbian. After studying law in 1937, he began working as a foreign correspondent for the Belgrade daily Borba . In 1938 he joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ / BdKJ) and became a confidante of Tito.

During the resistance against the German and Italian occupiers of Yugoslavia in World War II , he was on the staff of Tito's partisans from 1941 to 1944. In 1943 Tito appointed him colonel in the partisan army . He was wounded several times during the war. In 1943 he lost his wife Olga, who was also a doctor in the partisan army, in an attack by the Germans.

After the Second World War he was a member of parliament and between 1945 and 1952 he was a member of the Yugoslav UN delegation several times . In 1946 he took part in the Paris Peace Conference.

In 1952 he published a biography of Tito in the style of the personality cult , dealt with history in addition to his political offices and wrote numerous books. In 1953 Dedijer received a professorship in modern history at the University of Belgrade . In late 1954, there was a break with Tito due to Dedijer's standing up for the disgraced Milovan Đilas . On December 28, 1954, Dedijer lost all his political offices, as well as membership in the central committee of the BdKJ; on January 25, 1955, he was sentenced to six months probation for anti-government activity. He then devoted himself more to scientific studies and left Yugoslavia in 1959 and took on various teaching positions, including at Harvard University and the University of Oxford .

After the reconciliation with Tito, Dedijer returned to Yugoslavia in 1964 and became a scientific advisor at the Institute of History in Belgrade. His book The Road to Sarajevo (1966, German translation 1967 under the title Die Zeitbombe ) is "the most detailed and source-rich investigation of the assassination attempt" in Sarajevo , judges Gerd Krumeich . In 1968 Dedijer joined the Serbian Academy of Sciences , but continued his scientific research assignments abroad, including at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 1968 he chaired the Russell Tribunal together with the writer Jean-Paul Sartre . At the end of the 1960s, his commitment ensured that the USA temporarily refused him entry. Until his death in Boston in 1990, Dedijer worked as a fighter against human rights violations.

Fonts (selection)

  • Books available in German:
    • Tito: Authorized Biography . From the American by Hansi Bochow-Blüthgen. Berlin: Ullstein 1952
    • The time bomb: Sarajevo 1914 . Translated from the English. by Tibor Simány. Zurich: Europa-Verl. 1967
    • Stalin's lost battle. Memories 1948 to 1953 . From d. Engl. Into Dt. trans. by Edith u. Hugo Pepper. Vienna: Europa-Verl., 1970
    • Jasenovac, the Yugoslav Auschwitz and the Vatican . Edited and provided with a foreword by Gottfried Niemietz; Translated from Serbo-Croatian by Đurđica Đurković. Freiburg: Ahriman-Verl. 1987 ISBN 978-3922774068
  • English language books:
    • The War Diaries (1949-1951) . Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press 1990
    • The Beloved Land - Autobiography (1961)
    • History of Yugoslavia (1975)

literature

  • Dedijer, Vladimir , in: General Encyclopedia of the Yugoslavian Lexicographical Institute , Volume 2, Zagreb, 1977

Web links

Commons : Vladimir Dedijer  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holm Sundhaussen: Timeline. In: Grothusen, Klaus-Detlev (Hrsg.): Yugoslavia [= Südosteuropa-Handbuch, Volume 1]. Göttingen, 1975, p. 470f.
  2. ^ G. Krumeich: July 1914. A balance sheet. Paderborn 2014. p. 60.
personal data
SURNAME Dedijer, Vladimir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav partisan, journalist, politician, historian, author and confidante of Tito
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Belgrade , Kingdom of Serbia
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 1990
Place of death Boston , USA