Ante Trumbić
Ante Trumbić | |
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Milenko Vesnić | |
| 23rd Mayor of Split | |
| In office 1906–1907 | |
| Preceded by | Vinko Milić |
| Succeeded by | Vicko Mihaljević |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 17 May 1864 Croatian Party of Rights (–1905) Croatian Party (1905–1918) Croatian Community (1924–1926) Croatian Peasant Party (1926–1938) |
| Alma mater | University of Zagreb University of Vienna |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Profession | Attorney at law |
Ante Trumbić (17 May 1864 – 17 November 1938) was a Yugoslav and Croatian lawyer and politician in the early 20th century.
Biography
Trumbić was born in
After the
In 1918, he became foreign minister in the first government of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. At the Versailles conference after World War I, Trumbić had to represent Yugoslav concerns in the face of Italian territorial ambitions in Dalmatia (temporarily settled in 1920, but raised again with Benito Mussolini).
In spite of his support for a united Yugoslavia, Trumbić opposed the 1921 constitution over his belief that it was too centralized and allowed Serb hegemony over Yugoslavia.[1] Trumbić was one of 35 representatives to vote against the constitution amid a wide boycott of the National Assembly by opposition parties.[2] Trumbić grew steadily disillusioned with the Yugoslav government over time which he saw as Serb-dominated.[1] He was elected for the last time in the 1927 elections on the list of the Croatian Bloc representing Zagreb together with Ante Pavelić (1869–1938).
In 1929, claiming to bring an end to the ongoing bickering between the Serbian and the Croatian representatives within the kingdom, King
With the arrest of Croatian Peasant Party leader Vladko Maček in April 1933 Trumbić and Josip Predavec became the caretaker heads of the party.[5] With Predavec's assassination on 14 July, Trumbić was essentially the head of the party in Maček's absence.
According to Henri Pozzi, Trumbić later regretted the end of Austria-Hungary,[6] as the South Slav state he had helped to create proved incapable of his intended reforms.
References
- ^ a b c d Spencer Tucker. Encyclopedia of World War I: A Political, Social, and Military History. Santa Barbara, California, USA: ABC-CLIO, 2005. pp. 1189.
- ^ Sabrina P. Ramet, The three Yugoslavias: state-building and legitimation, 1918–2005. Indiana University Press, 2006. (p. 57)
- ^ Bernd Jürgen Fischer, Balkan strongmen: dictators and authoritarian rulers of South Eastern Europe. Purdue University Press, 2007. (p. 79)
- ^ Ljubomir Antić (2004). "Prvih sto godina Hrvatske seljačke stranke". Hrvatski iseljenički zbornik (in Croatian). Croatian Heritage Foundation. Archived from the original on 21 May 2011. Retrieved 29 June 2010.
- ^ Alex N. Dragnich, The first Yugoslavia: search for a viable political system. Hoover Press, 1983. (p. 95)
- ^ Henri Pozzi, Black Hand over Europe (La Guerre Revient...). F. Mott and Co, 1935.
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