Ognjen Kraus

Ognjen Kraus ( * November 4, 1945 in Zagreb) is a Croatian physician, President of the Jewish Community of Zagreb and the coordination of Jewish Communities in Croatia.

Family background

The family of Ognjen Kraus comes großväterlicherseits from Daruvar. Towards the end of the 19th century they moved to Zagreb. Ognjens grandfather Josip Kraus was the founder of the Mercury clinic in Zagreb. Ibid he died in 1934.

During the NDH regime fled Kraus ' father in 1941 via Rijeka to Italy. In Italy, he was placed in a labor camp. After the armistice of Cassibile he emigrated to Switzerland and studied law there and later worked initially as an assessor.

Kraus's mother was Slovenian. She took before the Second World War in Zagreb to study medicine and had to this, due to the chaos of war, break off. Politically Kraus mother was left -oriented and active in the Communist Youth of Yugoslavia active. She was captured in Ljubljana and as her husband brought into Italy to various prisons, they often had to endure solitary confinement. In 1943, she emigrated to Switzerland, where you will Ognjen Kraus ' parents met.

In 1944 the marriage. Shortly thereafter, in September 1945, they returned to the former Yugoslavia in the hometown of his father, Zagreb, back. Ognjens Kraus ' father worked in Zagreb as a representative of the district court, his mother as a medical examiner. Among other things, it was in the 1970s for some time minister of health in the Socialist Republic of Croatia.

Life

Ognjen Kraus is since 1978 married to Sanja Milković -Kraus and father of two sons. To the President of the Jewish Community of Zagreb Kraus was first elected in 1993 and reelected in 1997, 2001 and 2005. It is located in the fourth mandate of his presidency. To this end, he is president of the Coordination of Jewish Communities in Croatia.

Professionally, Kraus has worked as a physician in the field of urology. He works as a department manager in the Urology Department of the oldest Croatian hospital " Sestre Milosrdnice ", which was founded in 1846 in Zagreb. His wife works as a physician at the Institute of " Medical Research and Work" in Zagreb. His eldest son, Saša ( Sasha ) lives in Toronto ( Canada). As an engineer, he worked and lived for seven years in Israel and was awarded by the former Israeli President Ezer Weizman for his professional activities. The younger son Jaša studied law. Ognjens Kraus's twin sister lives and works in Italy.