Savka Dabcevic-Kucar

In memoriam

5th Prime Minister of Croatia. She served from 11 May 1967 to 8 May 1969. She was also the 6th Secretary of the League of Communists of Croatia from May 1969 to December 1971 and the 1st President of the Croatian People's Party from 1990 to 1995.She was a representative in the Croatian Parliament. She was the first woman in Europe to be appointed head of government of a political entity and the first female in the post-World War II Croatia to hold an office equivalent to a head of government. She is best remembered as one of the most important leaders of the Croatian Spring, a cultural and political movement that emerged from the League of Communists of Croatia in the late 1960s which opposed the unitarization and called for economic, cultural and political reforms. After her dismissal from government, she generally withdrew from public life, but still continued to lecture in economics at the University of Zagreb.

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