Viktor Gutić
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Colonel Viktor Gutić |
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| Born |
23 December 1901 Banja Luka, Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Austria-Hungary) |
| Died | 20 February 1947 (aged 45) Banja Luka, Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia |
| Allegiance |
 Independent State of Croatia (1941–45) |
| Service/branch | Croatian Armed Forces |
| Years of service | 1943–45 |
| Rank | Colonel |
| Battles/wars | World War II in Yugoslavia |
Viktor Gutić (23 December 1901 – 20 February 1947) was the Ustaše commissioner (Serbo-Croatian: stožernik) for Banja Luka and the Grand Prefect of Pokuplje in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) during World War II. He was responsible for the persecution of Serbs, Jews and Roma in the Bosanska Krajina region of Bosnia between 1941 and 1945, and reported to the principal commissioner for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Jure Francetić.
As commissioner, Gutić was responsible for organising Ustaše camps and centres in the region and appointing their staff. He fled to Austria and Italy following the collapse of the NDH in 1945 and was arrested in Venice and taken to a camp in Grottaglie before being extradited to Yugoslavia in early 1946. He was sentenced to death in Sarajevo and executed in February 1947 in Banja Luka.
Viktor Gutić was born in Banja Luka on 23 December 1901. He became a member of the regional Croatian Peasant Party (Croatian: Hrvatska seljačka stranka, HSS) and secretary of the party's local branch following the creation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in 1918 and later opened a law firm in the city after finishing his doctoral thesis. He was a founder of the Croatian National Youth (Hrvatska nacionalna omladina, HANAO) and joined Ante Trumbić's Croatian Federalist Peasant Party (Hrvatska federalistička seljačka stranka, HFSS) in 1925. He became an Ustaše sympathizer in the early 1930s and began supporting the ideology of fascist leader Ante Pavelić. Gutić's political beliefs led to his imprisonment in Sremska Mitrovica prison. Following his release from prison, he began organizing the first Ustaše movements on the territory of the Vrbas Banovina.
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