Dobrivoje Vidić | |
Native Name: | Добривоје Видић |
Office: | President of the Presidency of the Socialist Republic of Serbia |
Term Start: | 5 May 1978 |
Term End: | 5 May 1982 |
Predecessor: | Dragoslav Marković |
Successor: | Nikola Ljubičić |
Birth Date: | 24 December 1918 |
Birth Place: | Čačak, Kingdom of SCS |
Death Place: | Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia |
Party: | League of Communists of Yugoslavia |
Dobrivoje Vidić (Serbian: Добривоје Видић; 24 December 1918 – 3 March 1992[1]) was a Serbian politician and diplomat who served as the President of the Presidency of the Socialist Republic of Serbia (the precursor to the post of President of Serbia) from 5 May 1978 to 5 May 1982.
He additionally served as Yugoslav ambassador to Burma (1952–1953), Soviet Union (1953–1956 and 1965–1969), United Nations (1958–1960) and United Kingdom (1970–1973).
According to the newspaper Blic, during 1941 Vidić worked as a translator for the Germans in Užice,[2] and at the end of 1944, as the secretary of the KPY for the Užice district, he decided to shoot Andrija Mirković, the former mayor of Užice.[3]