Srjan Budisavlevich ( Serbohor. Srđan Budisavljević ; December 8, 1884 , Pozhega - February 20, 1968 , Zagreb ) - Minister of the Interior of Yugoslavia from March 27 to April 14, 1941, who was in the Provisional Government of Democratic Federative Yugoslavia . He is known as one of the few Yugoslav pre-war politicians who did not show any serious inclination towards specific political forces.
| Srdjan Budisavlevich | |||||||
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| serbohorv. Srđan Budisavljević | |||||||
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| Predecessor | Dragisa Tsvetkovich | ||||||
| Successor | Slobodan Jovanovic | ||||||
| Birth | December 8, 1884  Pozhega , Austria-Hungary | ||||||
| Death | February 20, 1968 (83 years old) Zagreb , SFRY | ||||||
| The consignment | Independent Democratic Party | ||||||
| Profession | lawyer | ||||||
| Religion | Orthodoxy ( Serbian Orthodox Church ) | ||||||
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Biography
Early years
Serb by origin. A lawyer by training, he worked as a lawyer. Since 1906 he was a deputy of the Croatian Sabor in the Croatian-Serbian coalition. He was a participant in the 1909 Zagreb trial against 53 members of the Serbian Independent Party, during which he almost ended up in the dock. During the First World War he was arrested several times. On March 14, 1911, at the 22nd meeting of the Sabor of the Kingdom of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia, the book “The Speech of Dr. Srdjan Budisavlevich, National Defender of the Brlog County” ( Serb. Govor Dra Srђana Budisavљevia’s People’s Defender Kotar Bröloshkog ) was presented , in which Budisavlevich accused Nastrijdjordjs of a tuned politician in initiating a process and conspiring with the Zagreb police.
Srjan later left the Croatian-Serbian coalition, as his opinion was often overlooked. In early 1918, he began to participate in the meetings of various groups and parties of Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, supporting the idea of creating a unified Yugoslavia. On January 1, 1918, Srcan started publishing the newspaper “Voice of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs” ( Serb. Slovenes , Khrvat and Srba ). In October 1918, he participated in the creation of the Popular Council of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs and became its secretary.
At the head of the Independent Democratic Party
In 1936, after the death of Svetozar Pribichevich, Budisavlevich headed the Independent Democratic Party, and then organized the Peasant-Democratic Coalition in the Yugoslav Parliament. In 1939 he was appointed Minister of Social Policy after the signing of the Tsvetkovich-Machek Agreement .
During World War II
March 24, 1941 after the news that Yugoslavia was going to join the Tripartite Pact, a wave of mass outrage and discontent swept through the country, and resignations began in the government. Branko Chubrilovich and Mikhailo Konstantinovich left the government. Three days later, a coup d'etat, initiated by Dushan Simovich , thundered , and Budisavlevich received the post of Minister of the Interior. Immediately Budisavlevich decided to immediately burn all documents from criminal cases against members of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia so that they would not fall into German hands.
On April 15, 1941, after the collapse of the Yugoslav army and the rout from the Wehrmacht, Budisavlevich immediately left the country by plane from Niksic, remaining in exile until June 1944. King Peter II, after much persuasion from the allies, dismissed the government and, thanks to the efforts of Ivan Shubashich, agreed with Josip Broz Tito to create a coalition "interim" government . Budisavlevich, providing moral support to Shubashich, deep down did not believe that the government would be able to keep the country from collapse - he doubted in general the possibility of its existence for at least some time, so he excluded his possible participation in the work of the government.
Coalition Government
In January 1945, Josip Broz Tito and Ivan Shubasic agreed that on behalf of the king in the government there would be three of his representatives: a Serb, a Croat and a Slovene. Budisavlevich was lucky to get into this group of representatives together with Ante Mandic and Dusan Sernets . The decision on this was made by King Peter II on March 2, 1945 . On March 5, both the royal and the Titov governments were dissolved, and on March 7 a new government was formed, which took the oath. Through the efforts of Budisavlevich, Sava Kosanovich was accepted into the government as Minister of Information. The royal representatives, in spite of their efforts, failed to convince either the members of the government or the population of the country of their innocence and force them to abandon the support of the communists. On November 11, 1945, the government was dissolved on the eve of the election, and on November 30, 1945, the Assembly decided to abolish the monarchy.
After the creation of socialist Yugoslavia, Budisavlevich stayed to live in a new country and started writing books: in 1958, his book “The Birth of the State of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes” ( Serb. Stvaraže dřave Srba, Khrvat and Slovenac ) was published in Zagreb. In this book, he actively criticized Nicholas I of Petrovich , king of Montenegro, whom he represented as an ardent ally of Austria-Hungary and an opponent of Serbian-Montenegrin unity .
Literature
- Opća enciklopedija JLZ
- Petranović, Branko: Istorija Jugoslavije 1918-1988, u tri knjige, Beograd: Nolit, 1988 .
- Šepić, Dragovan: Vlada Ivana Šubašića, Zagreb: Globus, 1983 .
- Radelić, Zdenko: Hrvatska seljačka stranka 1941.-1945., Zagreb: Hrvatski institut za povijest, 1996 .
- Karaula, Željko: Budislav Budisavljević-Prijedorski, Pomenci iz moga života, Bjelovar, Tiskara Horvat, 2012 .
- Petranoviћ, Branko. Serbia at the Other High Society 1939-1945 . - Beograd: War Publishing houses and Novinsky Centar, 1992.
- Tomasevich, Jozo. War and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941–1945: The Chetniks . - Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1975. - ISBN 978-0-8047-0857-9 .