Dušan Dragosavac

Dušan Dragosavac
President of the Presidency of the LCY Central Committee
In office
20 October 1981 – 29 June 1982
Preceded byLazar Mojsov
Succeeded byMitja Ribičič
Secretary of the Executive Committee of the League of Communists of Croatia
In office
9 April 1974 – 26 April 1978
PresidentJosip Vrhovec
Preceded byPero Pirker
Succeeded byMilutin Baltic
Personal details
Born(1919-12-01)1 December 1919
Gospić, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
(now Croatia)
Died21 December 2014(2014-12-21) (aged 95)
Zagreb, Croatia
NationalityCroatian Serb
Political partyLeague of Communists of Yugoslavia (SKJ)
Alma materUniversity of Zagreb
(Faculty of Law)

Dušan Dragosavac (Serbian Cyrillic: Душан Драгосавац; 1 December 1919 – 21 December 2014)[1] was a Croatian Serb politician who served as President of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia from 20 October 1981 until 29 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 a 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. He died on 21 December 2014, aged 95.

References

  1. ^ Dušan Dragosavac (in Croatian)
  2. ^ "Countries E". Rulers.org. Retrieved 8 October 2011.


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