Ratomir Dugonjić

Ratomir Dugonjić (1916–1987) was a lawyer, a participant in the national liberation struggle of the people of Yugoslavia, a socio-political worker in Yugoslavia and the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. From 1974-1978, he served as President of the Presidency of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Dugonjić was born on 10 January 1916 in Trebinje. He attended elementary school in his hometown, high school in Sarajevo and studied at the Faculty of Law in Belgrade. As a high school student in Sarajevo, he joined the revolutionary youth movement. During his studies in Belgrade, he was one of the most active members of the revolutionary student movement, which was then under the influence of illegal League of Communists of Yugoslavia. In 1937, he was admitted to the membership of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.

As a member of the Party, Dugonjić became more engaged in political work and in the reconstruction organization League of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia during the sixth janurske dictatorship. He collaborated with Ivo Lola Ribar and other members of the Central Communist Youth League. He moved from Belgrade to Sarajevo, because law students were required to attend lectures. Upon completion of the Faculty of Law, he entered the Faculty of Forestry in Sarajevo.

Dugonjić was actively engaged in soccer and played for the Sarajevo clubs " Slavija" and " Saxony". As a player, he often traveled to larger cities including Belgrade, Split, Ljubljana, Zagreb, Osijek and Skopje. He used these trips to carry illegal party materials. His connection in Zagreb was Ivan Milutinovic and in Belgrade Svetozar Vukmanović. In 1939, when the Provincial Communist Party of Yugoslavia for Bosnia and Herzegovina formed a youth committee, Dugonjić became a member at the suggestion of Ivo Lola Ribar. His political work was noticed by the police, and before the war he was arrested, and for a time he was in detention in Sarajevo.

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