Rade Končar

Rade Končar ( born August 6, 1911 in Končarev Kraj, today belonging to the municipality of Plitvice Jezera, Croatia, † May 22, 1942 in Šibenik) was a Yugoslav politician and partisan.

He was a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in 1934 and worked as a machinist at an energy company in Belgrade. In 1936 he was imprisoned for his political activities after his release, he moved to Zagreb. There he was d.d. Jugoslovensko at Siemens busy and built a party organization operating in the CPY on. In 1939 he became Secretary General of the Croatian national association of the CPY. In 1940 he became a member of the Politburo of the CPY.

After the German invasion in 1941, he organized the armed resistance and went to Split on the Dalmatian coast Italian-occupied. There, he scored several attacks on the occupation forces and collaborators. On November 17, 1941, he was arrested by the Organizzazione di Vigilanza e Repressione dell'Antifascismo and sentenced to death.

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