Ivan Šubašic

In memoriam

Born in Vukova Gorica, he went to school in Zagreb, and enrolled onto the Faculty of Theology at the University of Zagreb. During WWI, he was drafted into Austro-Hungarian Army where he took part in the fighting against Serbian forces on River Drina. After the war, Šubašić gained his law degree at Zagreb University, and after that, he opened a law office in Vrbovsko. There he met Vladko Maèek and joined the Croatian Peasant Party. In 1938, he was elected to the Yugoslav National Assembly. From 1939 until 1943, Šubašić served as the first Ban of Croatia, in charge of its government. As a non-Communist Croat, he was appointed as new Prime Minister in order to reach a compromise between Tito and the monarchy, which preferred Draža Mihailović and his Serb-dominated Chetniks. Šubašić met with Tito on the island of Vis and signed the Tito-Šubašić agreement, which recognised the Partisans as the legitimate armed forces of Yugoslavia in exchange for Partisans formally recognising and taking part in the new government. Šubašić kept his post until March 7, 1945, when Tito formally became Prime Minister of Yugoslavia. Šubašić was foreign minister in his cabinet until October, when he resigned, disagreeing with Communist policies of new government. Šubašić spent the remainder of his life away from the spotlight, dying 1955 in Zagreb. About 10,000 people attended his funeral. He is buried in Mirogoj Cemetery.

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