Dušan Dragosavac | |
Office: | President of the Presidency of the LCY Central Committee |
Term Start: | 20 October 1981 |
Term End: | 29 June 1982 |
Predecessor: | Lazar Mojsov |
Successor: | Mitja Ribičič |
Office1: | Secretary of the Executive Committee of the League of Communists of Croatia |
Term Start1: | 9 April 1974 |
Term End1: | 26 April 1978 |
President1: | Josip Vrhovec |
Predecessor1: | Pero Pirker |
Successor1: | Milutin Baltic |
Birth Date: | 1 December 1919 |
Birth Place: | Gospić, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes |
Death Place: | Zagreb, Croatia |
Party: | League of Communists of Yugoslavia (SKJ) |
Alma Mater: | University of Zagreb (Faculty of Law) |
Nationality: | Croatian Serb |
Dušan Dragosavac (Serbian: Душан Драгосавац; 1 December 1919 – 21 December 2014)[1] was a Croatian Serb politician who served as President of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia from 20 October 1981 until 29 June 1982.[2]
Born in the village of Vrebac near Gospić, Dragosavac graduated from the University of Zagreb Faculty of Law. He joined the Young Communist League of Yugoslavia (SKOJ) in 1941 and the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (SKJ) in 1942. During World War II he was a member of the Yugoslav Partisans. After the war he spent his entire career in politics and since the 1950s held various senior positions in the League of Communists of Croatia (SKH), the Croatian branch of the SKJ. He died on 21 December 2014, aged 95.