Hakija Hadžić

Hakija Hadžić (1883–1953) was Herzegovinian Muslim politician who belonged to the group of Muslim politicians from Bosnia, who nationally felt Croats and approached the Ustasha movement. Hadžić belonged to a group of Muslim politicians who held pro-Croatian position in the interwar period.

Hadžić was a politician who had the strongest influence on Muslim population of Yugoslavia before the Second World War. Before 1938 elections Hadžić established new political party (Croatian Muslim Peasant Party) which had received very modest support at the elections.

As personal friend of Ante Pavelić, he promoted Ustaša politics in regions of Herzegovina and Bosnia. Hadžić thanked Pavelić for the establishment of NDH, while Pavelić appointed Hadžić as his Commissioner for Bosnia. Hadžić was Muslim Ustaša with highest rank in Sarajevo. Alija Nametak described Hadžić as one of extreme Croats, to distinguish them from people for whom their Croatian ethnic identity was less emphatic.

Hadžić claimed that he challenged Mehmed Spaho to a duel, while both of them were in Vienna, but Spaho refused to appear. Hadžić denounced Džafer Kulenović too, although he also had a prominent position in the NDH.

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