Anton Vratuša

Anton Vratuša


Chairmen of the Executive Council of Slovenia
In office April 1978 – July 1980
Personal details
Born	Vratussa Antal (1915-02-21) 21 February 1915 (age 101) Dolnji Slaveči, Austro-Hungarian Empire (present-day Slovenia)

Anton Vratuša, born Vratussa Antal (born 21 February 1915) is a former politician and diplomat, who was Prime Minister of Slovenia and Yugoslavia's ambassador to the United Nations.

Vratuša was born in Dolnji Slaveči, Austro-Hungarian Empire, today Slovenia. His parents were Vratussa Antal and Anna Bokán.

From 1941 onward, he was involved in the Yugoslav People's Liberation War, and was interned in the Italian concentration camps of Gonars, of Treviso, of Padova, and of Rab from February 1942 to September 1943. After the concentration camp at Rab was liberated by the Yugoslav Partisans, Vratuša was named Deputy Commander of their Rab battalion, made up of camp survivors. He was also the head of the Yugoslav Partisans' delegation at the National Liberation Committee, the Italian Partisans' underground political entity during the German occupation of Italy in the last years of World War II.

After the war, he pursued an academic and diplomatic career. He was Chief of Staff to Edvard Kardelj (1953–65); the UN Commissioner to South West Africa (now Namibia) (27 October 1966 – 13 June 1967) while it was under direct UN rule and Yugoslavia's ambassador to the United Nations (1967–69). From April 1978 to July 1980, he was the Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia.