Emanuel Gagliardi (29 April 1885 – 25 March 1942) was a Croatian and Yugoslavian politician. Emanuel Gagliardi, sometimes also referred to as Manco or Manko Gagliardi graduated law and received a doctoral degree from the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb in 1911. Before the outbreak of the World War I, Gagliardi was a member of the Party of Rights in the

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, then a part of Austria-Hungary. In December 1918, following the dissolution of Austria-Hungary and establishment of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (renamed Yugoslavia in 1929), Gagliardi moved to

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, Republic of German-Austria. There he helped establish and participated in work of the émigré organisation of the

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. The organisation, led by

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advocated Croatian independence from the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Gagliardi returned to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in 1923, and was briefly arrested in Zagreb. In 1925, Gagliardi joined the pro-regime People's Radical Party and unsuccessfully tried to establish the Croatian People's Radical Party. He moved abroad again in the 1930s. After the Axis

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and establishment of the puppet state of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), Gagliardi returned to Zagreb and tried to establish close ties with the Ustaše who ruled in the NDH. He was arrested along with other suspected

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and imprisoned in the Stara Gradiška concentration camp. Gagliardi was summarily executed there in 1942.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gagliardi, Emanuel 1885 births 1942 deaths Party of Rights politicians Croatian people of World War II Politicians from Zagreb Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb alumni