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Ivan Markulj
Ivan Markulj In Royal Yugoslav Army Uniform
Born	(1889-02-11)11 February 1889 Mostar, Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria-Hungary
Died	September 1945(1945-09-00) (aged 56) Belgrade, FS Serbia, DF Yugoslavia
Allegiance	Austria-Hungary Kingdom of Yugoslavia Independent State of Croatia Nazi Germany
Branch	Austro-Hungarian Army Royal Yugoslav Army Croatian Home Guard
Service years	191?–1945
Rank	Colonel (Yugoslavia) General (NDH)
Unit	369th Reinforced Infantry Regiment (Germany/NDH)
Commands	369th Reinforced Infantry Regiment
Conflicts	World War II Eastern Front Second Battle of Kharkov Battle of Stalingrad
Awards	Iron Cross 1st class

Ivan Markulj (11 February 1889 – September 1945) was a Croatian soldier, officer in the armies of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and the Independent State of Croatia. He was the first commander of the 369th Reinforced Infantry Regiment.^{[not verified in body]}

Colonel Markulj was an officer in the Austro-Hungarian army, the Yugoslav Royal Army and finally the Croatian Home Guard of the Independent State of Croatia. After the establishment of the NDH, he served as commander of the Ustaše headquarters Pokupje in Karlovac, but soon became commander of the Varaždin Infantry Regiment.

After the heavy fighting and success of the 369th Reinforced Infantry Regiment in the battles near Kharkov in the spring of 1942, Colonel Markulj was awarded the Iron Cross of the First Class by order of the German general, commander of the 100th Chasseur Division Werner Sanne. After Kharkov, Colonel Markulj independently commanded the entire 369th Regiment as part of the 100th German Chasseur Division for the first time. Under his leadership, the 369th Regiment was particularly praised and decorated by the Germans for its heroic conduct and heavy losses during the Battle of Kharkov.^{[citation needed]}

After Markulj's departure from Russia on June 26, 1942, the command of the regiment was taken over by Colonel Viktor Pavičić, the former commander of the NDH military academy in Zagreb.

Colonel Markulj returned from Russia to Croatia in mid-1942 after a full year of grueling fighting, probably due to illness or exhaustion.^{[citation needed]} Later, during the war in Croatia and Bosnia, Markulj became a general of the NDH.^{[citation needed]} During 1944, General Markulj headed the Zagreb City Command and later became commander of the 3rd Military District of the NDH in Sarajevo.

In May 1945 he retreated from the Partisans together with the Croatian Armed Forces to Austria and the West, where he surrendered to the Western Allies, but was soon extradited to the Yugoslav military authorities.

The Yugoslav military court in Belgrade in September 1945 sentenced General Markulj, along with a larger group of captured Ustaša officers, to death by firing squad.^{[citation needed]}

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• Ivan Košutić: Hrvatsko domobranstvo u Drugom svjetskom ratu, Zagreb 1992.
• Heroji za pogrešnu stvar: Bačeni na Staljingrad, Jutarnji list, 24. veljače 2008.^[1]
• Milan Pojić Hrvatska pukovnija 369. na Istočnom bojištu 1941. - 1943.^[2]
• Welz H. Verratene Grenadiere. — Berlin, Deutscher Militärverlag, 1965.

• Originalna skica položaja 369 pukovnije 24 i 25.11.42. Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine
• Originalna skica mjesta stanovanja u Staljingradu 369 pukovnije.
• Slike i dosta stari nepotpuni/krivi tekst na engleskom o pukovniji.
• Neke rijetko viđene slike 369. pukovnije^{[dead link]} Na slici 15.01.1942 je pukovnik Markulj.
• Pukovnik Markulj i pukovnik Marko Mesić vjerojatno u Rusiji Archived 2016-03-05 at the Wayback Machine