Siniša Stanković | |
Office: | President of the Presidium of ASNOS |
Term Start: | 12 November 1944 |
Term End: | 7 April 1945 |
Primeminister: | Josip Broz Tito |
Predecessor: | Office established |
Successor: | Office abolished |
Office2: | 1st President of Serbia as President of the Presidium of the People's Assembly of Serbia |
Term Start2: | 7 April 1945 |
Term End2: | 20 November 1946 |
Predecessor2: | Office established |
Successor2: | Aćim Grulović |
Primeminister2: | Blagoje Nešković |
Birth Date: | 1892 3, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Zaječar, Kingdom of Serbia |
Nationality: | Yugoslav |
Death Place: | Belgrade, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia |
Party: | League of Communists of Yugoslavia (SKJ) |
Awards: | Order of National Liberation Order of Merits for the People |
Siniša Stanković (Serbian: Синиша Станковић; pronounced as /sr/; 26 March 1892 – 24 February 1974) was a Yugoslav and Serbian scientist and politician. As a prominent biologist, he became member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.[1] As a politician and statesman, from 1944 to 1946, he was the most senior state official of Serbia, then a federated state within Yugoslavia, and thus considered as the 1st President of Serbia as the President of the Presidium of the People's Assembly of Serbia.[2]
He served as President of the Presidency of the Anti-fascist Assembly for the National Liberation of Serbia (ASNOS), from November 1944 to April 1945, and then as President of the Presidency of the People's Assembly of Serbia, from April 1945 to November 1946. During that period, he was the most senior official of Serbia, and thus considered as the 1st President of Serbia.[3]
Stanković was born in Zaječar, Kingdom of Serbia and died in Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia. He graduated from the University of Belgrade and Grenoble University. As a prominent biologist, he became member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He was founder of Institute for ecology and biogeography, and director of the Biological Institute of Serbia. He had a long career in the Serbian and Yugoslav communist parties. During the Second World War he was member of communist Partisan movement.[4]
One species of pseudoscorpion is named after him as (lat. neobisium stankovici).