Dušan Petrović Šane | |
Office1: | 4th President of Serbia |
Term Start1: | 26 June 1963 |
Term End1: | 6 May 1967 |
Predecessor1: | Jovan Veselinov |
Successor1: | Miloš Minić |
Birth Date: | 28 June 1914 |
Birth Place: | Kragujevac, Kingdom of Serbia |
Death Place: | Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia |
Nationality: | Serb |
Party: | Communist Party of Yugoslavia |
Dušan Petrović Šane (Serbian Cyrillic: Душан Петровић Шане; 28 June 1914 – 21 June 1977) was a Yugoslav communist soldier and politician who served as President of the People's Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Serbia from 1963 to 1967.[1]
A Partisan officer from World War II, Petrović was also a Hero of Socialist Labour and a People's Hero of Yugoslavia.