Dušan Dragosavac

Dušan Dragosavac ( born December 1, 1919 in Vrepac, Gospic, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes ) was a Yugoslav politician of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia ( LCY ).

Biography

Dragosavac joined the Communist Party in 1942 and subsequently held a political commissar organizer of the party work in partisan forces in Benija in Zagreb. From this period came his longstanding friendship with Vladimir Bakaric, who later became party chief in Croatia.

After the Second World War Dragosavac was a specialist in economic policy in the 1950s and was one of the Executive Council (Government) of the Socialist Republic of Croatia as Executive Secretary at (Minister ) for Economic and Financial Affairs, before he then Chairman of the Federal Chamber of Foreign Trade was. After a simultaneous study of law, he obtained his doctorate in 1962 for a Doctor of Law and was also also the author of books in economics and business law.

In 1969 he became a member of the Executive Secretariat of the LCY Croatia and thus belonged to the leadership of the Communist Party of the republic. In this capacity, he represented a negative attitude towards the nationalist reforms within the Croatian party leadership at the time of the Croatian Spring 1971. Doing so the view expressed by him, but also by Milka Planinc orthodox attitude was towards the liberal attitude of the former Croatian party leader Savka Dabčević - Kucar prevail. Ultimately, it was released in December 1971 on the dismissal of Ms. Dabčević - Kučarsowie and other proponents of the " Croatian Spring" as Miko Tripalo.

On 20 October 1981 he became the successor of Lazar Mojsov Chairman of the Presidium of the LCY and therefore party leader. Thus it was at the same time the Bureau of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the Yugoslav State, ex officio. On June 29, 1982 Mitja Ribičić followed him in the office of party leaders.