Dušan Dragosavac

Dušan Dragosavac
President of the Presidium of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia
In office
20 October 1981  20 June 1982
Preceded by Lazar Mojsov
Succeeded by Mitja Ribičič
Personal details
Born (1919-12-01)1 December 1919
Vrebac near Gospić, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Died 21 December 2014(2014-12-21) (aged 95)
Zagreb, Croatia
Political party League of Communists of Yugoslavia (SKJ)
Alma mater University of Zagreb
(Faculty of Law)

Dušan Dragosavac (Serbian Cyrillic: Душан Драгосавац; 1 December 1919 21 December 2014)[1] was a Yugoslav politician of Serb ethnicity from Croatia who was Chairman of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia from 20 October 1981 until 20 June 1982.[2]

Born in the village of Vrebac near Gospić, Dragosavac graduated from the University of Zagreb Faculty of Law. He joined the Young Communist League of Yugoslavia (SKOJ) in 1941 and the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (SKJ) in 1942. During World War II he was member of the Yugoslav Partisans. After the war he spent his entire career in politics and since the 1950s held various senior positions in the League of Communists of Croatia (SKH), the Croatian branch of the SKJ.

References

  1. Dušan Dragosavac (Croatian)
  2. "Countries E". Rulers.org. Retrieved 2011-10-08.
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