Filip Lakuš (24 March 1888 – 3 August 1958) was a Croatian and Yugoslavian politician. Lakuš was among the leaders of the 1920 Croatian Peasant Rebellion in and around Križ. He was a member of the Croatian Peasant Party (HSS) and the group that split from the party known as the Croatian Republican Peasant Party (HRSS). In 1943, Lakuš joined a faction of the HSS cooperating with the Yugoslav Partisans against the Axis powers following the World War II invasion of Yugoslavia. He was a delegated to the State Anti-fascist Council for the National Liberation of Croatia (ZAVNOH) as well as the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ). He was appointed to the presidencies of both ZAVNOH and AVNOJ. In 1945, he was appointed a member and a vice-president of the presidium of the Parliament of the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia and subsequently of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia and a member of the Yugoslav Agrarian Council until retirement in 1952.[1]

Filip Lakuš
Born(1888-03-24)24 March 1888
Died3 August 1958(1958-08-03) (aged 70)
Sesvete, Yugoslavia
(now Croatia)
OccupationPolitician
Political partyCroatian Peasant Party (until 1945)
Croatian Republican Peasant Party (from 1945)

References edit

  1. ^ Leček, Suzana (2013). "Lakuš, Filip". Croatian Biographical Lexicon (in Croatian). Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography. Retrieved 16 March 2023.