Mika Špiljak
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5th President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In office 15 May 1983 – 15 May 1984 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Prime Minister | Milka Planinc | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Petar Stambolić | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Veselin Đuranović | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2nd Member of the Presidency of Yugoslavia for SR Croatia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In office 16 January 1983 – 15 May 1984 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Vladimir Bakarić | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Josip Vrhovec | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
21st Prime Minister of Yugoslavia President of the Federal Executive Council | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In office 16 May 1967 – 18 May 1969 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
President | Josip Broz Tito | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Petar Stambolić | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Mitja Ribičič | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Personal details | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Sisak, Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary | 28 November 1916||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 18 May 2007 Zagreb, Croatia | (aged 90)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Croatian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Political party | League of Communists of Yugoslavia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mika Špiljak (Serbo-Croatian pronunciation: [mîka ʃpîʎak] or [-ʃpîʎaːk]; 28 November 1916 – 18 May 2007) was a Croatian politician who spent most of his political career as a member of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia in the SFR Yugoslavia. He served as President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia from 1983 to 1984 and was also Prime Minister of Yugoslavia from 1967 to 1969.
Špiljak was previously President of the Executive Council of SR Croatia from 1963 to 1967. He was also President of the League of Communists of Croatia from 1984 to 1986.
Early years
[edit]He was born in Odra Sisačka (part of Sisak), in the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia (present-day Croatia). His father Dragutin was a railway worker. Špiljak began working at the age of 16. He joined the Communist Party in 1938 and fought with Partisans during World War II.
Career
[edit]From 1949 to 1950, he was the mayor of Zagreb.
In 1963, Špiljak was appointed the Chairman of the Executive Council of Croatia and served until his 1967 appointment as the President of the Federal Executive Council, Yugoslavia's Prime Minister. He served in that capacity until 1969.
Špiljak then served as President of the collective Presidency of Yugoslavia from 1983 until 1984. While holding this office, Špiljak opened the 1984 Winter Olympics.
He was subsequently elected President of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Croatia from 1984 until 1986.
Death
[edit]He died in 2007 at the age of 90.[1] He was cremated in Zagreb.[2]
In the 2000s (decade), German courts linked Špiljak to the assassination of Croatian emigrant Stjepan Đureković in 1983.[3] After the hearings in Germany, all the links connecting him to the assassination were dropped.
References
[edit]External links
[edit]- Klasić, Hrvoje (2019). Mika Špiljak, revolucionar i državnik (in Croatian). Naklada Ljevak. ISBN 9789533553177.
- 1916 births
- 2007 deaths
- People from Sisak
- People from the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia
- League of Communists of Croatia politicians
- Presidents of the Federal Executive Council of Yugoslavia
- Presidents of the Executive Council of the Socialist Republic of Croatia
- Mayors of Zagreb
- Recipients of the Order of the People's Hero
- Presidency of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia members
- Burials at Mirogoj Cemetery
- Recipients of the Order of the Hero of Socialist Labour
- Members of the Presidency of the 8th Congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia
- Members of the Presidency of the 10th Congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia
- Ex officio members of the Presidency of the 12th Congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia
- Members of the Central Committee of the 6th Congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia
- Members of the Central Committee of the 7th Congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia
- Members of the Central Committee of the 8th Congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia
- Members of the Central Committee of the 10th Congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia
- Members of the Central Committee of the 11th Congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia
- Members of the Central Committee of the 12th Congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia