Filip Filipović (politician)
Filip Filipović Филип Филиповић | |
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41st Mayor of Belgrade | |
In office 25 August 1920 – 2 September 1920 | |
Preceded by | Kosta Jovanović |
Succeeded by | Đoka Kara-Jovanović |
1st Political Secretary of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia | |
In office April 1919 – June 1921 | |
Co-chairman | Živko Topalović (1919-20) Sima Marković (1920-21) |
Preceded by | Position established |
Succeeded by | Kosta Novaković Moša Pijade |
Personal details | |
Born | Čačak, Principality of Serbia | 21 June 1878
Died | April 1938 Moscow, Soviet Union | (aged 59)
Political party | Communist Party of Yugoslavia |
Other political affiliations | Serbian Social Democratic Party, Communist Party of Soviet Union, Comintern |
Occupation | Professor and politician |
Filip Filipović (Serbian Cyrillic: Филип Филиповић; 21 June 1878 – April 1938) was a Serbian mathematician, communist politician and revolutionary.
Biography[]
Serbia and Yugoslavia[]
Filipović was an early activist and member of the Serbian Social Democratic Party in the Kingdom of Serbia, and one of the founders of the Socialist Workers' Party of Yugoslavia (of Communists) (later renamed Communist Party of Yugoslavia) in 1919 and its first political secretary.[1]
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He was elected Mayor of Belgrade in the first elections in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in 1920, but was forcibly removed after a week and soon imprisoned for his revolutionary activity.[2]
Emigration and death[]
After the ban of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia legal activity he emigrated from the Kingdom of Yugoslavia to the Soviet Union, where he continued his political actions.
During the Stalinist purges, he was shot dead along with many other leading Yugoslav communists.[3]
References[]
- ^ Ivan Očak, Povratnici iz Sovjetske Rusije u borbi za stvaranje ilegalnih komunističkih organizacija uoči Prvog kongresa SRPJ(k)
- ^ Policija je već 27. VIII. 1920. rasturila novoizabranu gradsku upravu na čelu sa Filipom Filipovićem.
- ^ Drachkovitch, Milorad M. (1986). Biographical Dictionary of the Comintern. Hoover Press. ISBN 978-0-8179-8403-8.
- Yugoslav communists
- Serbian communists
- League of Communists of Yugoslavia politicians
- Executed Yugoslav people
- Great Purge victims from Yugoslavia
- Soviet rehabilitations
- People granted political asylum in the Soviet Union
- Mayors of Belgrade
- 1878 births
- 1938 deaths