Fran Albreht

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Fran Albreht in the 1920s

Fran Albreht (17 November 1889 – 11 February 1963) was a

partisan. He also published under the pseudonym
Rusmir.

He was born as Franc Albrecht in the

leftist views. He studied at the University of Vienna and became a literary critic and a neo-romantic
poet.

From the 1922 till the 1932 Albreht was editor of the liberal literary magazine

Communists could publish their articles under pseudonyms
.

Registration form of Fran Albreht as a prisoner at Dachau Nazi Concentration Camp

After the

Nazis sent him to Dachau concentration camp.[3]

Soon after the liberation from Nazi occupation and the establishment of the

Communist regime in Yugoslavia in 1945, he was appointed mayor
of Ljubljana. He served in that office between 1945 and 1948. In 1948, he was dismissed and shortly imprisoned under the suspicion of anti-Communist activity.

He was married to the poet Vera Albreht. He died in Ljubljana in 1963 and is buried in the Žale city cemetery.

Works

  • Zadnja pravda ("The Last Lawsuit"), 1934
  • Pesmi ("Poems"), 1966
  • Gledališke kritike ("Theatre Critiques"), 1973

See also

  • List of Slovenian language poets
  • Slovenian literature
  • Culture of Slovenia
  • Yugoslav People's Liberation War

References

  1. ^ Slovene Studies by Society for Slovene Studies - 1997
  2. ^ a b Stanko Janež (1971). Živan Milisavac (ed.). Jugoslovenski književni leksikon [Yugoslav Literary Lexicon] (in Serbo-Croatian). Novi Sad (SAP Vojvodina, SR Serbia): Matica srpska. p. 14.
  3. ^ "Albrecht, Fran (1889–1963)". slovenska-biografija.si.

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Preceded by Mayor of Ljubljana
1945–1948
Succeeded by