Savka Dabčević-Kučar

Savka Dabčević - Kucar ( born December 11, 1923 in Korčula; † August 6, 2009 in Zagreb) was a Croatian politician or Yugoslav. She was from 1967 until her dismissal in 1971, chairman of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Croatia in the Socialist Republic of Croatia and one of the most important leaders of the Croatian Spring.

Dabčević - Kucar was the first female party leader of a Yugoslav republic.

Life

After the Italian occupation force arrested her brother during the Second World War, she joined in 1943 the partisan movement.

Savka Dabčević - Kucar studied from 1945 economics at the University of Zagreb, spent two years in Leningrad, and his PhD after their return to Zagreb ( 1955). She was one of the first women in Croatia, who made his doctorate in economics. In 1965, she was Associate Professor of Political Economy. From 1959 she was a member of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, whose president was 1968.

Since she and Miko Tripalo, who also belonged to the Croatian Central Committee, one the one hand, relatively liberal attitude had and made ​​our own at the same time demands of Maspok ( mass movement, so-called Croatian Spring ) for greater autonomy of the Socialist Republic of Croatia within Yugoslavia they were in December 1971 discontinued.

With Miko Tripalo 1990 it belonged to the founders of the Croatian People's Party. She was party chairman from 1990 to 1994 and from 1992 to 1995 belonged to the Croatian Parliament to.

Savka Dabčević († March 29, 2003, former director of construction company Geotehnika born March 11, 1923 ) was since 1951 with the mining engineer Ante Kucar married.

Works

• 71 hrvatski snovi i stvarnost ( '71. Croatian dreams and reality ), 1997 (ISBN 953-6596-01-6 )

Awards