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Ivan Lorković | |
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 Lorković, 1920s | |
| Born | (1876-06-17)17 June 1876 |
| Died | 24 February 1926(1926-02-24) (aged 49) Zagreb,Kingdom of Yugoslavia |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Political party | Croatian Union (1919–1926) |
| Father | Blaž Lorković |
Ivan Lorković (Croatian:[ǐʋanlǒːrkoʋit͡ɕ]; 17 June 1876 – 24 February 1926)[1] was a Croatianpolitician fromZagreb who was a member of theCroat-Serb coalition, a supporter of the Republican organization, and a member of the United Croatian and Serbian Academic Youth Organization.
Between 1902 and 1905, Ivan Lorković was the editor of theOsijek opposition newspaper,National Defense (Croatian:Narodna obrana).[1][2] The paper's goal was to help themiddle class and youth of theOsijek region to think politically. In 1905, he became one of the co-founders of the Croatian National Progressive Party (Hrvatska narodna napredna stranka, NNS).[3]
In the1913 Croatian parliamentary election, he was elected as a member of theCroatian Republican Peasant Party, representing the constituency ofValpovo.[citation needed]
In 1914, Lorković visitedRome to attend a meeting that included politicians from allSouth Slavic lands within theMonarchy. He arrived with a controversialmemorandum on how to break theAustro-Hungarian Empire and preserve the continuation of Croatian statehood.[citation needed] His proposal was met with opposition, most notably fromTomáš G. Masaryk (founder and first president of theCzechoslovakia), who was skeptical of the plan since he did not believe that Britain andFrance would accept the idea of the total abrogation of the Empire, and was therefore in favour of a confederation.[4]
In 1918, due to disagreements over the Yugoslav issue, Lorković left the Croat-Serb Coalition and joined the newly foundedCroatian Union political party in 1919. Along withStjepan Radić and others, he entered theCroatian Bloc (Croatian:Hrvatski blok), formed on 14 January 1922, when the Croatian Republican Peasant Party, the Croatian Union, and theParty of Rights formed acoalition. It existed until November of that year.
On 13 September 1925, at a conference of the Croatian Union, representatives and dissidents from the Croatian Peasant Party inSplit founded "The Croatian People's Federalist Union." On 11 January 1926, "The Croatian Federalist Peasant Party" was founded inZagreb, and Lorković became the head of its presidency.[5] Following the 1928assassination of Stjepan Radić, the party started to support the opposition Peasant-Democratic Coalition.[6] As part of the6 January Dictatorship, the party was formally banned on 20 January 1929.[7]
Ivan's father wasBlaž Lorković, a prominent economist and lawyer who is often credited with the development of the Croatianpolitical economy. He also had two sons: his sonMladen was aUstaša minister for the fascist andNazi-collaborationistIndependent State of Croatia, notable for his involvement in theLorković–Vokić plot, and his sonZdravko was a prominententomologist andcytotaxonomist, notable for his work onbutterfly chromosomes.[1][8]
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| Preceded by none | Leader of the Croatian Federalist Peasant Party 1926 – 1929 | Succeeded by |
