Ivan Å usterÅ¡iÄ
Ivan Šušteršić (also Šušteršič, * May 29, 1863 in Gorenja vas; † October 7, 1925 in Ljubljana ) was a Slovene lawyer and Catholic- national politicians.
Life
His father Valentin Šušteršić ( Schusterschitz ) was civil and criminal judge in Kranj. His younger brother Alois Schusterschitz, 1919 Alojz Šušteršić was kuk Naval officer, most recently with the rank of rear admiral. In 1900 he took part in the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion in China. Ivan Šušteršić visited 1873-1875 high school in Kranj, then to 1881 the first public high school in Ljubljana. Then he studied until 1885 in Vienna Law. In 1886 he got a job as a trainee in a law firm, in 1894 he opened his own law office in Ljubljana. In 1891 he married Bogomila Šuman, the daughter of a high school officials from Ljubljana. With her he had four children: Ivo, Bogomila, Alfonso and Ferdinand.
Political career
1896 Šušteršić was elected to the Imperial Council Cisleithanian. He was a member of the Carniolan Catholic National Party, which in 1905 changed its name in Slovenian People's Party. Since 1897 he had led the members of this party in the Imperial Parliament. From 1912 to October 1918 he was governor of the crown land of Carniola. As a politician, he stood up for the interests of farmers. He was a South Slav nationalist who advocated the merger of the Slovenian and Croatian populated regions Zisleithaniens into a unified, Illyrian, administrative area. He was loyal to the Habsburg imperial family and rejected the establishment of a comprehensive all South Slavs Yugoslav State. In 1918 he went into exile in Switzerland in 1922, he returned to his homeland.