Vladimir Matijević ( sr-Cyrl, Владимир Матијевић; 3 August 1854 – 7 September 1929) was a Serbian businessman and

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He was born in

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's Gornji Budački near

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, at the time in the

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. In

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, he received his primary education before entering the a military cadet school in

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, but then went back to civil school, and later enrolled in the

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and after that at the Vienna School of Commerce. There he graduated with a

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. Upon his return from

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, he dedicated himself to commerce and took over the firm " Gustaf Saher" in Zagreb. In 1876 he joined the Serbian Army as a volunteer at the outbreak of the Serbian-Turkish Wars. In 1895 he founded the Serbian Bank in Zagreb in order that the Serbian privrednici could access funds in a timely manner without obstructions. He was also the founder of the Serbian Business Association

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(1897) and the Union of Agricultural Cooperatives. Privrednik is an organization of the

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minority in

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, which is aimed to creating and increasing economic opportunities in rural areas where the majority of Serbs live in Croatia, as well as the development of professional skills of individuals. After the

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, once the

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was well established, in 1922, Vladimir Matijević moved his business to

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and in 1923 founded the Serbian Privrednik or ''Zadruga Srba privrednika'' there. He died in Belgrade on 7 September 1929.

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1854 births 1929 deaths Serbian Austro-Hungarians Cooperative organizers Serbian merchants Serbian philanthropists Serbian–Turkish Wars (1876–1878) Serbs of Croatia 19th-century Serbian people Businesspeople from Austria-Hungary People from Karlovac County {{Serbia-bio-stub

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