Miroslav Tuđman
Miroslav Tuđman | |
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Member of Parliament | |
In office 22 December 2011 – 31 January 2021 | |
Constituency | I electoral district II electoral district IV electoral district |
Personal details | |
Born | Faculty of Philosophy | 25 May 1946
Alma mater | University of Zagreb |
Occupation | Politician, university professor |
Profession | Philosopher, information scientist |
Miroslav Tuđman (Croatian pronunciation: [mǐ-, mîroslaʋ tûdʑman]; 25 May 1946 – 31 January 2021) was a Croatian scientist and politician, the son and eldest child of the first President of Croatia, Franjo Tuđman, and his wife Ankica.[1][2][3]
Biography
Tuđman was born in
He participated in the Croatian War of Independence in 1991, and in 1992 he became the head of the Center for Strategic Research. Later he was the deputy head of the National Security Office and then the founder and leader of the first Croatian Intelligence Agency (Croatian: Hrvatska izvještajna služba; HIS)[2] between 1993 and 1998, and then from 1999 to 2000. In 1995, President Tuđman decorated him with the Order of Duke Domagoj, for war-time merit as a member of the political administration of the Ministry of Defence.[5] In 1998 he became a tenured professor at the Faculty of Philosophy.[3]
His first venture into politics was as a co-founding member of the briefly active leftist
That same year he and
He later re-joined HDZ and in 2011 won a seat in the parliamentary election on an HDZ ticket in the 7th assembly.[6] He retained his seat in the following three elections in 2015 (8th assembly), 2016 (9th assembly) and 2020 (10th assembly).
Tuđman died on 31 January 2021, at Zagreb's Hospital for Infectious Diseases where he had been hospitalized days earlier due to COVID-19 complications during the COVID-19 pandemic in Croatia.[7]
References
- ^ a b c d Marinko Čulić (30 March 2009). "Osoba tjedna: Miroslav Tuđman - Sin koji je od oca naslijedio sve mane i nijednu vrlinu" (in Croatian). Index.hr. Retrieved 30 May 2010.
- ^ a b c d e Goran Prokopec (20 December 2009). "Miroslav Tuđman - jabuka ne pada daleko od stabla" (in Croatian). Deutsche Welle. Retrieved 30 May 2010.
- ^ a b c "Dr. M. Tuđman - Životopis". Miroslav-Tudjman.com. Archived from the original on 27 November 2009. Retrieved 11 July 2010.
- ^ ISBN 978-953-7313-72-2.
- ^ Franjo Tuđman (7 July 1995). "Odluka kojom se odlikuju Redom kneza Domagoja s ogrlicom" (in Croatian). Narodne novine 46/1995. Archived from the original on 28 October 2015. Retrieved 30 May 2010.
- ^ "HDZ predao izborne liste, Kosor prva u petoj jedinici". Poslovni dnevnik (in Croatian). 14 November 2011. Archived from the original on 15 November 2011. Retrieved 14 November 2011.
- ^ "Preminuo Miroslav Tuđman, saborski zastupnik i sin prvog hrvatskog predsjednika". Dnevnik.hr. 31 January 2021. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
External links
- Miroslav Tuđman at Zagreb Faculty of Philosophy (in Croatian)
- Miroslav Tuđman at HRČAK (in Croatian)
- Miroslav Tuđman at Croatian Encyclopedia (in Croatian)