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Vjenceslav Turković Vjenceslav Turković (28 September 1826 – 30 April 1902) was Croatian businessman, merchant, and politician. His sons were barons Petar Dragan and Milan Turković. Biography Turković moved from Kraljevica to Karlovac, where he established ...

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Kutjevo Kutjevo is a town in eastern Croatia. It is located in the Slavonia region, northeast of town of Požega. History Kutjevo is known for its wines, and the local agricultural joint stock company Kutjevo d.d. is the largest exporter of wines in Cro ...

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* business executive * banker * politician , memorials = , website = , module = Petar Dragan Turković (also credited as ''Petar Dragutin''; 4 April 1855 – 2 April 1916), titled Baron Petar Dragan Turković of Kutjevo, was a Croatian businessman and nobleman from the Turković Kutjevski family.

Biography

After gymnasium in Rakovec, Turković attended the Trade Academy in Trieste. Even as a young man, he had a managing role in his father's forest business. In 1882, Turković permanently settled in

and continued his work on wooden products, the wood industry and building a family business. According to tradition, he entered his father's business at the end of the 1870s. In 1886, Turković managed the family business with his younger brother Milan, devoting himself mainly to exploiting oak trees and planting extensive vineyards, orchards and tobacco.{{cite web , title=Turković, Petar Dragan , url=https://www.enciklopedija.hr/Natuknica.aspx?ID=62785 , website=enciklopedija.hr , access-date=7 March 2023 {{In lang, hr{{cite book , last1=Puljić , first1=Matej , title=Obitelj Turković kao privredni čimbenik razvoja i modernizacije požeške kotline , date=2021 , publisher= University of Zagreb , location=Zagreb , url=https://repozitorij.ffzg.unizg.hr/islandora/object/ffzg%3A3891/datastream/PDF/view , access-date=7 March 2023 {{In lang, hr In 1894, Turković moved to Zagreb to deal with the administrative affairs of the Turković family estate. In addition, he had other essential roles in Zagreb. He was a member of the board of directors of the Zagreb Plinara ({{trans, Zagreb Gas Plant) and Tvornica kože ({{trans, Leather Factory), and the president of brewery

Zagrebačka pivovara Zagrebačka pivovara (lit. Zagreb Brewery) was founded in 1892, when brewers from the Upper Town of Zagreb, Croatia realized they were not able to produce enough beer for the ever-growing and developing city. It was the first industrial brewery in ...

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. Turković was the founder of Zagrebačka pivovara together with Count Gustav Pongratz. His career peaked when he became the grand prefect of Zagreb County, where he was from 1906 to 1907.{{cite web , title=HR-DAZG-1006 Obitelj Turković , url=https://www.daz.hr/vodic/site/article/hr-dazg-1006-obitelj-turkovic , website=daz.hr , access-date=7 March 2023 {{In lang, hr In 1911, he and his brother Milan were made

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s by the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I. Three years after his death, his sons founded the Turković Brothers Bank. The bank went liquidated after World War II. Also, the Peter Dragan Baron Turković Foundation went established by his son Vladimir in his name and on his brother's behalf under the patronage of

Matica hrvatska Matica hrvatska ( la, Matrix Croatica) is the oldest independent, non-profit and non-governmental Croatian national institution. It was founded on February 2, 1842 by the Croatian Count Janko Drašković and other prominent members of the Illyri ...

Family

Turković's wife was Marina Maja,

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Tulić. They had three sons; Vladimir (born 1878), Davorin (b. 1883), and Velimir (b. 1894). His great-grandson is a clinical psychologist,

Petar Turković Petar Turković (born 1 November 1957) is a Croatian clinical psychologist, psychotherapist, Social entrepreneurship, social entrepreneur, master of martial arts, and sports executive. He was a long-time Vinko Bek Education Centre for Blind dire ...

, and his great-great-granddaughter is a singer-songwriter,

Nika Turković Nika Turković (born 7 June 1995) is a Croatian singer and songwriter. She got to be known through representing Croatia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2004. Turković was a cast in several music TV shows since and has established herself ...

.{{cite web , title=Propada paviljon koji su gradu Zagrebu poklonili svjetski poznati voćari: ‘Tu piju pa ga razvale‘ , url=https://www.jutarnji.hr/vijesti/zagreb/propada-paviljon-koji-su-gradu-zagrebu-poklonili-svjetski-poznati-vocari-tu-piju-pa-ga-razvale-15112711 , website= Jutarnji list , access-date=19 March 2023 {{In lang, hr

Legacy

*Draganlug, a village in the

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Municipality, was named after Turković.

References

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