Viktor Alexander

Viktor Alexander was known Croatian lawyer and public prosecutor in Zagreb. Alexander was member of the Freemasonry Jewish Lodge Zagreb. He was a board member of the colliery "Mirna", owned by his cousin Samuel David Alexander. At the beginning of his career, Alexander was junior barrister in the district court of Vukovar. Later he was the public prosecutor in Osijek. When he returned to Zagreb, at first, he was the deputy public prosecutor and later he was appointed as the public prosecutor. Before and during World War I, Alexander was one of the most influential people in Croatia, thanks to his friendship with Ban Iván Skerlecz. After World War I, he was decorated with Order of St. Sava and Order of the Yugoslav Crown. In 1917, Alexander played an important role in liberating loyal and wrongly charged people from accusations of high treason. He travelled to Vienna, to have an audience with Charles I of Austria, to whom he submitted a report which showed that the accusations of the Austro-Hungarian central administration in Serbia against many distinguished citizens and political leaders such as Dr. Ivo Frank, Dr. Aleksander Horvat, Dr. Vladimir Sachs, almost all the Croatian population in the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Military Frontier and Kingdom of Dalmatia, were based upon forged documents about supposed secret espionage in favour of the Kingdom of Serbia.