Stjepan Šiber

Stjepan Šiber
Member of the House of Representatives
Personal details
Born(1938-08-20)20 August 1938
Gradačac, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Died25 August 2016(2016-08-25) (aged 78)
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Political partyRepublican Party
Military service
Allegiance
Branch/service
RankBrigadier general
Battles/warsBosnian War

Stjepan Šiber (20 August 1938 – 25 August 2016) was a Croat Bosnian brigadier general and politician who. After finishing high school in Gradačac, he went to Ljubljana, where he finished schooling at the military academy. Afterward, he became an officer in the Yugoslav People's Army. By 1992, he had become a lieutenant colonel. In 2000, he was elected to the House of Representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina.[1]

Bosnian War

In April 1992, he was accepted into a seat in the Presidency of Bosnia and replaced the commanding general of the army.[2] Then, in 1993, he was promoted to brigadier general and obtained a seat in the embassy of Bosnia in Switzerland.

Postwar

He was a member of the Republican Party, together with Stjepan Kljuić, a fellow wartime member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

References

  1. ^ Bose, Sumantra (2002). Bosnia after Dayton: nationalist partition and international intervention. Oxford University Press US. p. 229. ISBN 9780195158489. Retrieved 1 January 2011.
  2. ^ Kohlmann, Evan (2004). Al-Qaida's jihad in Europe: the Afghan-Bosnian network. Berg Publishers. p. 90. Retrieved 1 January 2011. Stjepan Siber.


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