Nikola Mandić
| Nikola Mandić | |
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| Prime Minister of the Independent State of Croatia | |
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In office 2 September 1943 – 8 May 1945 |
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| Poglavnik | Ante Pavelić |
| Preceded by | Ante Pavelić |
| Succeeded by | Office abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
20 January 1869 Travnik, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 7 June 1945 (aged 76) Zagreb, Federal State of Croatia, Democratic Federal Yugoslavia |
| Nationality | Croat |
| Political party |
Croat People's Union 1910–1919 Croatian Popular Party 1919–1929 Ustaše 1929–1945 |
| Alma mater | University of Vienna |
| Profession | Lawyer, politician |
| Religion | Catholic Church |
Nikola Mandić, L.D. (Serbo-Croatian pronunciation: [nǐkola mǎndit͡ɕ]; 20 January 1869 – 7 June 1945) was a Croatian politician who served as a Prime Minister of the Independent State of Croatia during World War II. He was executed as a war criminal on 7 June 1945.
Nikola Mandić was born in the town of Travnik on 20 January 1869, to a Bosnian Croat family. He finished gymnasium in Sarajevo and went on to study law at the University of Vienna, where he received a doctorate in law in 1894. Mandić returned to Sarajevo and worked as a judicial clerk before becoming an attorney.
In the early 1900s, Mandić became one of the most influential Croat politicians in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1907, he and other Croat politicians founded a political party known as the Croat People's Union (Croatian: Hrvatska narodna zajednica, HNZ). The party received approval from Austria-Hungary in November 1907, and Mandić was elected party leader at its founding assembly in February 1908. At the time, he was serving as deputy mayor of Sarajevo. On 6 October 1908, Austria-Hungary officially annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina. Mandić unconditionally supported the move, reasoning that the annexation would make it easier for the two regions to later be united with the nominally autonomous Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia. He also believed that Bosnia and Herzegovina should receive the status of "empire's land", ruled jointly by both Austria and the Kingdom of Hungary.
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