Pavao Miljavac Explained

Pavao Miljavac
Birth Date:3 April 1953
Birth Place:Maletići near Netretić, PR Croatia, FPR Yugoslavia
Death Place:Zagreb, Croatia
Allegiance:Croatian Army
Rank:General (General zbora)
Commands:Chief of General Staff (1996–1998)

Pavao Miljavac (3 April 1953 – 6 December 2022[1])[2] was a Croatian Army general.

He served as Chief of General Staff between 1996 and 1998, and between October 1998 and January 2000 he served as Croatia's Minister of Defence in the Cabinet of Zlatko Mateša, following Andrija Hebrang's resignation.[3]

He ran in the January 2000 general election on the centre-right Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) ticket, and won a seat in the Croatian Parliament. However, he left the party three months later and joined the newly established splinter party Democratic Centre in April 2000, along with other prominent HDZ members such as Vesna Škare-Ožbolt and Mate Granić.[4]

Miljavac left politics after 2003. He owned a wood processing facility in Novigrad na Dobri.[5]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sahranjen general Pavao Miljavac .
  2. Web site: Umro je umirovljeni general Pavao Miljavac . hr . 2022-12-06 . 2022-12-06 . . Krešimir . Žabec . Marko . Špoljar.
  3. Web site: Sixth Government . The Government of the Republic of Croatia - chronology . Croatian Information-Documentation Referral Agency . 2008-10-05 . 2011-02-01.
  4. Web site: Pavao Miljavac - DC . Croatian . . Zastupnici 4. saziva Hrvatskoga sabora . 2011-02-01.
  5. News: Generals . Nacional #507 . 2005-08-01 . 2011-02-01. Eduard Šoštarić. 27 May 2012. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20120527135533/http://www.nacional.hr/en/clanak/19700/generals.