Josip Frank

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Josip Frank (Croatian pronunciation:

Party of Rights in the Croatian Parliament, and a vocal advocate of Croatian national independence in Austria-Hungary
.

Early life

Frank was born into a

Vienna University in 1868, he moved to Zagreb in 1872 and worked as an attorney at law.[4]

Political career

Frank's initial political involvement included a critique of the

People's Party (of Josip Juraj Strossmayer), joining the opinion of ban Levin Rauch. When Ivan Mažuranić
became Croatian ban in 1873, Frank criticized him because of his relations with the Magyars and the Serbs.

In 1877, he founded the newspapers Agramer Presse and Kroatische Post, which were soon banned by the Austro-Hungarian authorities. [5]

In 1880, Frank published a brochure titled Die Quote Kroatiens, in which he tried to prove that Croatia bore a disproportionately high financial burden since the 1868

City council
, where he would serve until 1894.

In 1880, the Croatian poet August Šenoa characterised Frank in the following manner:

The infamous Zagreb attorney […] degrades and befouls all that is Croatian, first to the benefit of the Magyars, now of the Austrians […] Frank is a political louse, who served Rauch, then the Swabian Generalkommando […] he offered himself to the Orthodox voter in Pakrac, bragging about […] protecting Serbian interests.[6]

In 1884, Frank was elected as an independent delegate to the Croatian

Sabor, representing the Kotar of Popovača
. In 1887, he was elected to represent the Kotar of Vojni Križ.

In 1890, supported by

Pure Party of Rights (Croatian: čista stranka prava) with its mouthpiece Hrvatsko pravo. By 1897, Frank had become the true leader of the Croatian states' rights movement, advancing to president of the party after Starčević's death. Frank's Party of Rights was opposed to the Party of Rights led by Frano Supilo
and other advocates of the policy of a "New Course", of alignment towards Serbs.

Frank maintained an interest in financial matters, which earned him a regular place in the Croatian Parliament's finance committee, and later in the budget committee. He was a member of the board of financial matters of the Kingdom of Croatia between 1898 and 1906. In 1898, he published a treatise called Nuncij where he harshly accused Hungary for a perceived injustice in the financial terms of the settlement between Croatia and Hungary. In 1904 Frank reiterated his demands for a financial independence of Croatia, and in part due to his efforts, in 1906 a new financial agreement between Croatia and Hungary was formed which was considered the most beneficial to the Croatian side.

One of the most important characteristics of the Frank's followers was their

Ustashe members.[9]

Politically, Frank appeared as a

radical nationalist, who apparently lent himself to the political ideas of a "Greater Croatia" and a trialistic approach to the Habsburg lands by making the Kingdom of Croatia the third entity in the empire. Unlike Ante Starčević, that was anticlerical, Frank considered to be useful collaboration with Catholic church in Croatia. In the later stages of his career, he appeared as a man of confidence to the Viennese authorities, often acting secretly on their behalf.[citation needed
]

Josip Frank's support for the Austrian court in his fight against the pro-Yugoslav and pro-Serbian forces did not go unopposed within his own party, as in 1908 Mile Starčević led a faction (called Milinovci) to form a splinter Starčević Party of Rights. In 1909 Frank fell terminally ill, and could no longer take active part in politics. After that, the party attracted a prominent group of Catholic intellectuals to join them in 1910 and changed their name to Christian-Social Party of Rights. In 1911, they reconciled with the Starčević Party of Rights, and merged back into a single Party of Rights. Frank lived to witness this, but died shortly thereafter. Frank was buried at the Mirogoj Cemetery.[10]

Legacy

The supporters of Frank's ideas in Croatian politics became known as the Frankists.

His daughter Olga was Slavko Kvaternik's wife.

References

  1. ^ Kraus 1998, p. 174.
  2. ^ Gregory C. Ference (2000). "Frank, Josip". In Richard Frucht (ed.). Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe: From the Congress of Vienna to the Fall of Communism. New York & London: Garland Publishing. pp. 276–277. Archived from the original on 2008-03-17. Retrieved 2017-09-02.
  3. ISBN 953-96369-0-6
    , str. 267.: Josip Frank pokršten je, kad je imao 18 godina.
  4. ^ "FRANK, Josip (Josef, Josif)". Židovski biografski leksikon (in Croatian). Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  5. ^ Milan Prelog (1925). "FRANK JOSIP DR.". In St. Stanojević (ed.). Narodna enciklopedija srpsko-hrvatsko-slovenačka. Vol. 1. Zagreb: Bibliografski zavod d. d. p. 691.
  6. ^ Miroslav Krleža, ed. (1958). "FRANK, Josip". Enciklopedija Jugoslavije. Vol. 3 (1st ed.). Zagreb: Leksikografski zavod FNRJ. p. 387.
  7. ISBN 978-0-520-04206-3
    . Retrieved 30 August 2013. ... in the case of Frank's followers... strongly anti-Serb
  8. Jugoslavenski leksikografski zavod "Miroslav Krleža"
    . p. 255.
  9. ^ a b c Trbovich 2008, p. 136.
  10. ^ (in Croatian) Gradska groblja Zagreb: Josip Frank, Mirogoj RKT-78-I-1

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