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| 25.5.1892: Josip Tito (†4.5.1980) |
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| Yugoslav state president and marshal, his real name was actually Josip Broz and his official birthday May 7, 1892. Tito, as general secretary of the Communist party in Yugoslavia, organized the partisan resistance against the German and Italian occupying forces in Yugoslavia from 1941 onwards. In 1944, the anti-fascist council of national liberation under Titos leadership assumed power. From 1945, he was prime minister and minister of defence. He was nominated state president initially in 1953, and for life in 1963. He pursued his own form of socialism after turning his back on Stalinism. In international politics, he became the spokesman of the nonaligned countries. |
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