Fehim Čurčić
| Fehim Čurčić | |
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| 5th Mayor of Sarajevo | |
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In office 14 November 1910 – 1915 |
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| Preceded by | Esad Kulović |
| Succeeded by | Aristotel Petrović |
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| Born | 1886 Sarajevo, Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 13 February 1916 (aged 30) Grimmenstein, Lower Austria |
Fehim Effendi Čurčić (1886 – 13 February 1916) was a Bosnian politician who served as the 5th Mayor of Sarajevo from 1910 to 1915. On 28 June 1914, Mayor Čurčić welcomed Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg to Sarajevo and was present later the same day at their assassination, the event that sparked World War I. He died aged 30 in an Austrian sanatorium.
Čurčić was born into a prominent family of ethnic Bosniaks who relocated to Sarajevo from Livno in the late 17th century. His father Ragib Čurčić (died 1888) was a statesman in the Ottoman Empire, and the final mayor of Sarajevo under Ottoman rule from March 1878 until the Austrian occupation in August of that same year. The family was Muslim.
Čurčić was working as a political aspirant in administrative country service. He attended course for officers and became a spare officer. Čurčić, who was repeatedly elected to Sarajevo's City Council, will go down in history as the last mayor of Sarajevo during the Austro-Hungarian rule over Bosnia and Herzegovina. Coincidentally, his father Ragib was the last mayor of Sarajevo in 1878 during Ottoman rule.
In the 1910 election for Mayor of Sarajevo, incumbent mayor Esad Kulović won a third term by an "overwhelming" majority, but refused post, thus the position was handed over to 24-year-old Fehim Čurčić. Coincidentally the last Bosnian census during Austro-Hungarian rule was conducted in the 1910 election year. Sarajevo at that time had 51,919 inhabitants. During his tenure, Čurčić opened the Chamber of Education in 1911. A year later the Kino Apolo (Apollo Cinema) was opened. Also, the city's main post office was constructed by Josip Vancaš, while the Museum of Sarajevo, as well as the Judicial Palace and the Faculty of Law building at the University of Sarajevo were constructed by Karel Pařík. Čurčić held post until 1915 when the City representation was dismissed.
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