Edvard Kardelj

Edvard Kardelj
7th President of the Federal Assembly of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
In office 29 June 1963 – 16 May 1967
Preceded by	Petar Stambolić
Succeeded by	Milentije Popović
2nd Foreign Minister of Yugoslavia
In office 31 August 1948 – 15 January 1953
Preceded by	Stanoje Simić
Succeeded by	Koča Popović
1st Chairman of the League of Communists of Slovenia
In office 1937–1943
Preceded by	None
Succeeded by	Franc Leskošek
Personal details
Born	(1910-01-27)27 January 1910 Ljubljana, Austria-Hungary
Died	10 February 1979(1979-02-10) (aged 69) Ljubljana, SR Slovenia, Yugoslavia
Nationality	Yugoslav
Political party	League of Communists of Yugoslavia (SKJ)
Spouse(s)	Pepca Kardelj
Occupation	Economist, revolutionary, publicist and full member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Awards	Order of Yugoslav Star Order of the People's Hero Order of the Hero of Socialist Labour Order of the brotherhood and unity Order of the partisan star Order of the National liberation Order for courageousness
Military service
Allegiance	Yugoslavia
Service/branch	Yugoslav People's Army
Rank	Colonel General of Yugoslav People's Army
Commands	Yugoslav Partisans Yugoslav People's Army
Battles/wars	World War II

Edvard Kardelj (pronounced [ˈéːdʋaɾt kaɾˈdéːl]; 27 January 1910 – 10 February 1979), also known under the pseudonyms Bevc, Sperans and Krištof, was a journalist from Ljubljana, Slovenia, and one of the leading members of the illegal Communist Party of Slovenia before World War II. During the war he was one of the leaders of the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People and a Slovene Partisan, and after the war a federal political leader in socialist Yugoslavia who led the Yugoslav delegation that negotiated peace talks with Italy over the border dispute in the Julian March. He is considered the main creator of the Yugoslav system of workers' self-management. He was an economist and a full member of both the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts and Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Kardelj was born in Ljubljana. At the age of 16 he joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, where he was drafted under the influence of the Slovenian journalist Vlado Kozak. He studied to become a teacher but never worked as one. In 1930, he was arrested in Belgrade and convicted of being a member of the illegal Communist Party. He was released in 1932 and returned to Ljubljana, where he became one of the leaders of the Slovenian section of the party after most of its former members had either left the party or perished in Joseph Stalin's purges.

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