Marko Natlačen (24 April 1886 – 13 October 1942) was a Slovenian politician and jurist, who also served as a ban of the Drava Banovina but is perhaps best remembered as the author of the 1914 xenophobic slogan Srbe na vrbe.
Natlačen finished his law studies in Vienna and then moved to Ljubljana, where he found employment as a lawyer. He was a member of the Slovene People's Party and an anticommunist. During the Second World War he founded the National Council of Slovenia (Slovene: Narodni svet za Slovenijo) together with the leaders of other political parties.[1] He initially accepted a position on the advisory council for the Ljubljana Province, but resigned soon thereafter and withdrew from public political life due to his opposition to the Italian authorities and their unlawful treatment of people in Ljubljana Province. Together with the Albert Kramer of the Liberal Party, he helped draft the London Points (Slovene: Londonske točke) on October 1941.[2]
He was assassinated by the Security and Intelligence Service (VOS) at the order of the Communist Party of Slovenia.[1] After the war the Communist authorities desecrated his grave, exhumed his remains, and disposed of them at an unknown location.[1]