Trumbich, Ante

Born in Dalmatia . He received primary and secondary education in his hometown, having received a certificate in 1882. Then he studied law at the universities of Zagreb, Vienna and Graz. In 1890 he received a doctorate in law, in 1894 he opened a private law practice in Split.

From 1895 to 1914 he was a member of the Dalmatian parliament (as part of Austria-Hungary), as well as the Austrian parliament; in both institutions actively defended the interests of the Croatian population of Dalmatia against Italian. In 1905 he was elected mayor of Split. He advocated the gradual implementation of reforms in the Slavic lands of Austria-Hungary and for the political autonomy of Dalmatia.

After the Sarajevo assassination and the outbreak of World War I, he emigrated to Italy, where he began political activity, becoming, in particular, a member of the Yugoslav Committee, traveled to London with diplomatic missions and tried to convince the Serbian Prime Minister Nikola Pasic of the need to form a state that would become an equal union of Serbs , Croats and Slovenes. His efforts greatly contributed to the signing of the Corfu Declaration in the summer of 1917. After the end of the war, at the Versailles Conference, he defended Yugoslav interests in a territorial dispute with Italy over Dalmatia.

December 7 (20), 1918 he was appointed the first Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes .

On November 22, 1920, he resigned from the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs, considering it unacceptable for himself to defend predominantly Serbian political interests, and was elected to parliament without joining any of the parties.

On June 28, 1921, he voted against the adoption of the new constitution, since he did not consider it in the interests of all the peoples of Yugoslavia. In 1925, he was re-elected to parliament from the party of Croatian Unity, where he joined a year earlier (he represented Zagreb in parliament), and acted as Stepan Radic's lawyer during the trial of him on charges of treason; subsequently left this party after she joined the parliamentary coalition with supporters of Nikola Pasic, and founded the Croatian Peasant Federalist Party, from which he was again elected to parliament in 1927. After the murder of Radic in 1928, he supported the Peasant-Democratic Coalition and soon officially joined the Croatian Peasant Party .

In 1930 he defended in court Vladko Macheka ; in the last years of his life he worked as a lawyer in Zagreb and advocated the separation of Croatia from Yugoslavia.

• Biography (Horv.)
• Trumbich, Ante // Croatian Encyclopedia (Croatian)
• Trumbich, Ante // Nordisk Familjebok (Swedish)