Franjo Gaži (
Hlebine
Hlebine is a municipality in Koprivnica-Križevci County in Croatia. It consists of two villages, Hlebine and Gabajeva Greda.
Population
Its population is earns its living primarily from agricultural production. The population has been decreasin ...
, 13 February 1900 –
Zagreb
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, 15 November 1964) was a
Croatia
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Yugoslavia
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n politician.
In
1935 Yugoslavian parliamentary election he was the designated alternate of
Croatian Peasant Party
The Croatian Peasant Party ( hr, Hrvatska seljačka stranka, HSS) is an agrarian political party in Croatia founded on 22 December 1904 by Antun and Stjepan Radić as Croatian Peoples' Peasant Party (HPSS). The Brothers Radić believed that t ...
(''Hrvatska seljačka stranka'', HSS) candidate
Mihovil Pavlek Miškina and became the party's district president for
Koprivnica.
Following the
Axis
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invasion of Yugoslavia
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during the
World War II
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and establishment of the
Independent State of Croatia
The Independent State of Croatia ( sh, Nezavisna Država Hrvatska, NDH; german: Unabhängiger Staat Kroatien; it, Stato indipendente di Croazia) was a World War II-era puppet state of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. It was established in p ...
(''Nezavisna Država Hrvatska'', NDH) in April 1941, the HSS remains largely passive, following instructions of its president
Vladko Maček
Vladimir Maček (20 June 1879 – 15 May 1964) was a politician in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. As a leader of the Croatian Peasant Party (HSS) following the 1928 assassination of Stjepan Radić, Maček had been a leading Croatian political fig ...
. At the same time, the
Communist Party of Yugoslavia (''Komunistička partija Jugoslavija'', KPJ) and its nominally independent branch, the
Communist Party of Croatia
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(''Komunistička partija Hrvatske'', KPH) launch
Partisan resistance. HSS presence in the Partisan movement was established by
Božidar Magovac in 1943, and Gaži soon followed him there. Magovac established the HSS executive committee in the Partisans, but after he came into conflict with the KPH secretary
Andrija Hebrang, Gaži gradually replaced Magovac with Hebrang's assistance. Thus Gaži became the president of the HSS executive committee, as well as the vice-president of the
(''Zemaljsko antifašističko vijeće narodnog oslobođenja Hrvatske'', ZAVNOH) established by the KPH as the supreme representative body in Croatia, and vice-president of the
National Committee for the Liberation of Yugoslavia
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. In the final days of the war, the HSS executive committee was under increasing influence of the KPH. It was formally renamed the
Croatian Republican Peasant Party
The Croatian Peasant Party ( hr, Hrvatska seljačka stranka, HSS) is an agrarian political party in Croatia founded on 22 December 1904 by Antun and Stjepan Radić as Croatian Peoples' Peasant Party (HPSS). The Brothers Radić believed that t ...
and used to politically weaken Maček-led HSS.
The HRSS remained a political ally of the KPH after the war and Gaži was elected a member of the Croatian
Sabor
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and of the
Yugoslav Parliament. He was a part of several
Vladimir Bakarić
Vladimir Bakarić (; 8 March 1912 – 16 January 1983) was a Yugoslav and Croatian communist revolutionary and a politician.
Bakarić helped to organise the partisan resistance in the Independent State of Croatia during World War II. From 1948 ...
-led
cabinets of Croatia
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.
References
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1900 births
1964 deaths
Croatian Peasant Party politicians
Croatian people of World War II
People from Hlebine