Ivan Rikard Ivanović
| Dr. Ivan Rikard Ivanović | |
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| Elected Deputy for Osijek II | |
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| Born |
Ivan Rikard Mendel Kraus 1880 Osijek, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Croatia) |
| Died | 1949 (aged 69) Genoa, Italy |
| Nationality | Croat |
| Spouse(s) | Milica Popović |
| Relations |
Vane Ivanović (son) Daška McLean (daughter) |
| Occupation | Politician, industrialist |
Dr. Ivan Rikard Ivanović (1880-1949) was a Croatian industrialist, politician and one of the founders of the Croatian National Progressive Party (NNS).
Ivan Rikard Mendel Kraus was born in 1880 in Osijek, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary, the son of Bettina and Ivan Mendel Kraus. His father was the owner of a construction business in Osijek, and was responsible for erecting a number of buildings in his hometown, among which was the first steam-powered flour mill. When Ivan was a young boy his parents changed the family name to Ivanović and converted to Catholicism, along with many other Jews at the time.
After completing his early studies his parents sent him to Vienna where he became a Doctor of Law. In 1905 he became one of the founders of the Croatian National Progressive Party (Hrvatska narodna napredna stranka, NNS). In the Croatian parliamentary election, 1908, Ivanović was elected a member of the Croatian Parliament for the city of Osijek. In July 1912, he married Milica Popović, the youngest sister of Dr Dušan Popović, a leading Serb in Croatian political life. He was also elected in the Croatian parliamentary election, 1913.
In 1918, as a member of the National Assembly of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes he helped to form the state.
In 1929, Ivanović built an oil refinery in Osijek named "IPOIL". In 1936, he started building the first aluminum factory in the Balkans in the town of Lozovac near Šibenik, consulted by Elektrokemisk, now known as "IVANAL" d.d.
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