Filip Filipović (politician)

Filip Filipović (Serbian Cyrillic: Филип Филиповић; 21 June 1878 – April 1938) was a Serbian mathematician, communist politician and revolutionary.

Filip Filipović
Филип Филиповић
41st Mayor of Belgrade
In office
25 August 1920 – 2 September 1920
Preceded byKosta Jovanović
Succeeded byĐoka Kara-Jovanović
1st Political Secretary of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia
In office
April 1919 – June 1921
Co-chairmanŽivko Topalović (1919-20)
Sima Marković (1920-21)
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byKosta Novaković
Moša Pijade
Personal details
Born(1878-06-21)21 June 1878
Čačak, Principality of Serbia
DiedApril 1938(1938-04-00) (aged 59)
Moscow, Soviet Union
Political partyCommunist Party of Yugoslavia
Other political
affiliations		Serbian Social Democratic Party, Communist Party of Soviet Union, Comintern
OccupationProfessor and politician

Biography

Serbia and Yugoslavia

Filipović was an early activist and member of the Serbian Social Democratic Party in the Kingdom of Serbia, and one of the founders of the Socialist Workers' Party of Yugoslavia (of Communists) (later renamed Communist Party of Yugoslavia) in 1919 and its first political secretary.[1]

Preserved 1920 local elections slogan "Vote for Filip Filipović", written on a wall in Belgrade. Filip Filipović was elected mayor of Belgrade in 1920, but, refusing to pledge the oath to the King, he was not permitted to assume the office.

He was elected Mayor of Belgrade in the first elections in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in 1920, but was forcibly removed after a week and soon imprisoned for his revolutionary activity.[2]

Emigration and death

After the ban of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia legal activity he emigrated from the Kingdom of Yugoslavia to the Soviet Union, where he continued his political actions.

During the Stalinist purges, he was shot dead along with many other leading Yugoslav communists.[3]

References
  1. Ivan Očak, Povratnici iz Sovjetske Rusije u borbi za stvaranje ilegalnih komunističkih organizacija uoči Prvog kongresa SRPJ(k)
  2. Policija je već 27. VIII. 1920. rasturila novoizabranu gradsku upravu na čelu sa Filipom Filipovićem.
  3. Drachkovitch, Milorad M. (1986). Biographical Dictionary of the Comintern. Hoover Press. ISBN 978-0-8179-8403-8.
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