Savka Dabčević-Kučar
| Savka Dabčević-Kučar | |
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Savka Dabčević Kučar in 2007
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| 5th President of the Executive Council of SR Croatia | |
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In office May 11, 1967 – May 8, 1969 |
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| President | Jakov Blažević |
| Preceded by | Mika Špiljak |
| Succeeded by | Dragutin Haramija |
| 6th Secretary of the League of Communists of Croatia | |
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In office May 1969 – December 1971 (deposed) |
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| President | Jakov Blažević |
| Prime Minister | Dragutin Haramija |
| Preceded by | Vladimir Bakarić |
| Succeeded by | Milka Planinc |
| 1st President of the Croatian People's Party | |
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In office 1990–1995 |
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| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Radimir Čačić |
| Personal details | |
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6 December 1923 Korčula (Korčula), Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (present-day Croatia) |
| Died | 6 August 2009 (aged 85) Zagreb, Croatia |
| Nationality | Croatian |
| Political party | League of Communists of Yugoslavia (SKJ); Croatian People's Party (HNS) |
Savka Dabčević-Kučar (6 December 1923 – 6 August 2009) was a Croatian communist politician. She was one of the most influential Croatian female politicians during the communist period, especially during the Croatian Spring when she was deposed. She returned to politics during the early days of Croatian independence as the leader of the Coalition of People's Accord and the Croatian People's Party. From 1967 to 1969 she served as the Chairman of the 5th Executive Council (Prime Minister) of the Socialist Republic of Croatia, one of eight constituent republics and autonomous provinces of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia. She was the first woman in Europe to be appointed head of government of a political entity and the first female in the post-World War II Croatia to hold an office equivalent to a head of government.
Savka Dabčević was born in Korčula, then in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, today in Croatia, to the notable Croatian family of Dabčević, originally from Boka Kotorska. During World War II, she was a partisan, until 1943 when she went to El Shatt as refugee. After the war she studied economics at Zagreb university. She married Ante Kučar in 1951.
Dabčević-Kučar came into the public spotlight in the late 1960s as a member of a younger and more reformist generation of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia leaders. With the tacit blessing of Josip Broz Tito, she and Miko Tripalo became the leaders of the League of Communists of Croatia. In 1967 she became the prime minister of SR Croatia, giving her the distinction of being Europe's first female prime minister.
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