Stjepan Mesic (1934

Stjepan Mesic - Stipe

( 1934 - )

Biography

Stjepan Mesic was born on 24 December 1934 in Orahovica. Father Josip Mesic and mother Magdalena Mandica Mesic married in 1931 and had two children. Mother died in 1936 and his sister Marija was sent to uncle Tomo Pernar in France while care of Stipe was taken over by grandmother Marija until his father married again and stepmother took over.

Little Stjepan spent World War 2 hiding on Papuk mountain and occasionally liberated Orahovica until when during last offensive he flees to Hungary with his family and some 10,000 other refuges. Family moved to Nasice were his father become president of Municipal board. Family soon moves to Osijek were Stipe finishes forth grade of primary school and two out of eight year gymnasium. Together with his father new position family moves back to old family house in Orahovica Stjepan Mesic completes gymnasium in Pozega. At the end of school he become member of Communist Party of Yugoslavia.

In autumn 1955 attends Faculty of Law at the University of Zagreb and in 1961 graduates. Same year he married Milka Dudunic from Hrvatske Kostajnice and has two daugthers, Sasha born in 1961 and Dunja born in 1963.

Serves military service in 1961, six months in School for reserve officers in Bileca and six in Nish.

Ranks

Decorations

Died

Assignments

1963 - judge of Municipal court in Orahovica

1965 until 1972 - member of Parliament in the Socialist Republic of Croatia

1967 until 1972 - president of Orahovica municipality

1981 - director of AS

1989 - president of HDZ Zagreb city municipal organization

1990 - Secretary of the HDZ

1990 - Chairman of Executive Committee of HDZ

30 May to 25 August 1990 - first Prime Minister of the Republic of Croatia

1 July to December 1991 - Presidency of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

1992 - Chairman of Executive Committee of HDZ

7 September 1992 to 24 May 1994 - Speaker of the Parliament

1997 - executive Vice-President of the HNS party and Chairman of the municipal organization of the same party in the city of Zagreb

18 February 2000 - President of the Republic of Croatia

Bibliography

DOMOVINSKI OBRAT - politicka biografija Stipe Mesica, IVICA DIKIC, ISBN: 953-201-406-3, V.B.Z., Zagreb, 2004

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