Šime Đodan (27 December 1927 – 2 October 2007) was a

Croatia Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herze ...

n politician, a two-term Member of Parliament who also briefly served as the 3rd Minister of Defense of Croatia in 1991.

Personal life

Šime Đodan was born on 27 December 1927 in the village of Rodaljce (part of

Benkovac Benkovac () is a town and municipality in the Zadar County, Croatia. Geography Benkovac is located where the plain of Ravni Kotari and the karstic plateau of Bukovica, Croatia, Bukovica meet, 20 km from the town of Biograd na Moru and 30&n ...

), in the

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. Đodan graduated from the

Faculty of Law A faculty is a division within a university or college comprising one subject area or a group of related subject areas, possibly also delimited by level (e.g. undergraduate). In North America, academic divisions are sometimes titled colleges, sc ...

University of Zagreb The University of Zagreb (, ) is a public university, public research university in Zagreb, Croatia. It is the largest Croatian university and one of the oldest continuously operating universities in Europe. The University of Zagreb and the Unive ...

in 1960. In 1965, Đodan obtained his doctorate from the Faculty of Economics, which is also located in Zagrab He served as a member of the presidency and economic secretary of Matica hrvatska from 1967 until 1971. He was sentenced to six years in a Yugoslav prison for his collaboration during the Croatian Spring. He went on to become a professor at the Faculty of Law in Zagreb in 1991. Đodan published a number of books concerning

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. He topics included the economic situation of Croatia, the production of

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and services, and

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Politics

Šime Đodan served in the Croatian parliament for two terms. His first term was from 1990 until 1992 and his second term extended from 1992 until 1995. Đodan briefly served as the Croatian Minister of Defense from 2 July 1991 until 17 July 1991. He served as president of the Matica hrvatska from 1991 to 1992 and as a member of the presidency of the HDZ. His political life was marked with controversial rhetoric, most infamously an August 1991 remark in Sinj about the Serbs having "smaller brains" and "pointy heads".

Death

Šime Đodan died on 2 October 2007 at the age of 79 in a

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in Dubrovnik, Croatia, after a long illness. His funeral was held on 5 October 2007 in Dubrovnik.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dodan, Sime 1927 births 2007 deaths People from Benkovac Croatian Democratic Union politicians Yugoslav economists Representatives in the modern Croatian Parliament Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb alumni Academic staff of the University of Zagreb Defence ministers of Croatia Order of Ante Starčević recipients Croatian independence activists Croatian Spring participants