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Hasan Brkić
4th President of the Executive Council of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina
In office
1961–1963
Preceded byOsman Karabegović
Succeeded byRudi Kolak
Personal details
Born(1913-07-16)16 July 1913
Livno, Austria-Hungary
Died14 July 1965(1965-07-14) (aged 51)
Sarajevo, SFR Yugoslavia
CitizenshipYugoslav
Political partyLeague of Communists of Yugoslavia
ProfessionPolitician, soldier
AwardsOrder of the People's Hero
Order of the People's Liberation
Order of the Yugoslav Flag
Order of Brotherhood and Unity
Order of Bravery
Partisan Memorial
Military service
Allegiance Yugoslavia
Branch/serviceYugoslav Partisans
Yugoslav People's Army
Years of service1941–1945
1965
RankColonel

Hasan Brkić Aco (July 16, 1913 – July 14, 1965) was Yugoslav and Bosnian communist politician. He was also recipient of People's Hero of Yugoslavia. From 1963 to 1965, he was President of the Executive Council of Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Biography

Brkić was born on July 16, 1913 in Livno, where he finished elementary school. He attended gymnasium in Bihać, Banja Luka and Sarajevo. After high school he attended University of Belgrade Faculty of Law where he graduated in 1937.

From his gymnasium days, he was member of SKOJ. During his student days in Belgrade he was prominent in leading circles of Revolutionary Students' Movement. He became member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in 1933. As representative of the University of Belgrade, he participated, along with Ivo Lola Ribar and Veljko Vlahović, on Congress of World Federation of Students in Prague in 1936. Because his revolutionary activity during the study, he was repeatedly arrested by police.

After he finished his study, he went to Sarajevo and became employee of the "Agrarna banka" (Template:Lang-en). Soon after he arrived in Sarajevo, he made a connection with the Communist Party and again became active. Because of his communist activity he was fired from service in bank, later he found job as a municipal official and later he was law clerk. From 1938, along with attorneys of the Central Committee of the Communist arty, he worked on development and consultations of the organizations of Communist Party in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He also participated in Fourth Regional Conference of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia for Bosnia and Herzegovina held in Mostar in 1938. In 1940, he became Secretary of the Sarajevo District Committee for the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.

When Invasion of Yugoslavia started in April 1941, Brkić was mobilized to Royal Yugoslav Army. When Kingdom of Yugoslavia capitulated, he was in service in Sinj. After that, he returned to his hometown where he worked in local organization of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. Soon he went to Sarajevo and started with organization of rebellion in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He participated in session of the Regional Committee of the Communist Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina, held on July 13, 1941, where Communist Party made decisions about rebellion against Axis forces. On this session he became commander of Headquarters of Partisan detachments of Sarajevo District and he also participated in creation of earliest partisan detachments: Romanija detachment, Kalink detachment and Detachment "Zvijezda" (Template:Lang-en).

During the war, he done various duties, he was political commissar of Partisan Detachment "Zvijezda", deputy of political commissar of the 6th Proletarian East Bosnian Shock Brigade and political commissar of the 27th East Bosnian Brigade.

He was Councilor of the AVNOJ from November 1943 to 1945 and Secretary of ZAVNOBiH. During the was he was chosen as member of the Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia for Bosnia and Herzegovina and Secretary of the Districts Committee for the Eastern Bosnia.

Even though he was high-ranking party member during the war, he was often in contact with the enemy. In battle against Ustaše in Han Pogled near Han Pijesak he distinguished him self by capturing Ustaše stronghold. He was also successful in battle against Chetniks on Vareš railway where he, along with Pero Kosorić, completely annihilated them.

After war finished, he was on various posts in SFR Yugoslavia. He was Minister of Finance in the First Government of the People's Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, State Secretary of the National Agriculture and State Deputy Secretary in Foreign Affairs in Government of the Federative People's Republic of Yugoslavia. From 1958 to 1961, he was Secretary of the Industry of the Federal Executive Council, from 1961 to 1963, he was Vice President of the Executive Council of the People's Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and from 1963 until his death, he was President of the Executive Council of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (de facto Prime Minister).

Along with State posts, he was also on high Party positions, he was member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina and member of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia. From 1952, he was member of the Executive Council of the League of Communists of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and from 1965, he had a rank of Colonel in Yugoslav People's Army.

Brkić dealt with economic policy, so his works about it were published in journals "Naša stvarnost" (Template:Lang-en) and "Pogled" (Template:Lang-en) and others. In 1957, he published a book "U matici života" (Template:Lang-en).

He was decorated with Partisan Memorial (1941) and Order of People's Hero of Yugoslavia (November 27, 1953).

Brkić died on July 14, 1965 in Sarajevo and he is buried on "Lav" cemetery.

References

  1. Template:Hr icon Banac, Ivo. Protiv straha, p. 75. Slon, 1992
  2. Template:Bs icon Isaković, Alija. Antologija zla, p. 288. Ljiljan, 1994
  3. Template:Bs icon Imamović, Mustafa. Historija države i prava Bosne i Hercegovine, p. 414. M. Imamović, 1999. ISBN 9958984407

Sources

Prime ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina (List)
Prime Ministers of
PR Bosnia and Herzegovina (1945–1953)
Presidents of the Executive Council of
SR Bosnia and Herzegovina (1953–1992)
Prime Ministers of the
Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992–1997)
Co-Chairmen of the Council of Ministers
of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1997–2000)
Chairmen of the Council of Ministers
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