Vlado Šegrt

Vlado Šegrt (1907–1991) was a participant in the National Liberation Struggle and a socio-political worker in the Socialist Republics of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Yugoslavia. He was a reserve Major General and national hero of Yugoslavia. From September 1948 to March 1953 he was the President of the Presidium of the National Assembly of the People's Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Šegrt was born on December 18, 1907, in the village of Aranđelovo, near Trebinje. After finishing primary school in the village of Lastva, he worked as a framer. As a seasonal worker, his interactions brought him into contact with the labor movement.

Šegrt became a member of the Union of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia (Communist Youth) in 1928, and the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY) in 1931. The Party included Sava Kovacevic, who had a great impact on it. The Government was a member of party leadership in Grahovo near Niksic until the formation of the party cell in Lastva. In 1936, the Government became a member of the Local Committee, and in 1939 the District Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in Trebinje.

In the April war, Šegrt served in positions in the Bay of Kotor, escaped capture and armed came home. Immediately upon his return, he came into contact with Sava Kovacevic and other communists in the Trebinje district. He worked on the organization of the armed struggle and giving resistance to the Ustasha. In his village he formed a partisan company, and was its political commissar. From September 1941, the company won several important victories over the Italians and the Ustashe, which resulted in a population that was massively in favor of the National Liberation Movement (NOP). On 6 January 1942, Šegrt and his company captured an Italian convoy near the village of Klenk. They seized a large amount of weapons and ammunition.

During the Liberation War, Šegrt served as political commissar of the partisan troops, the battalion commander "Luka Vukalović", Commander of the First Herzegovina-Montenegro shock partisan battalion, from 28 January 1942; Commander of the North-Herzegovina Partisan Unit from April 1942; Commander of the Herzegovina Partisan Unit, from mid-June 1942; Commander of the Tenth Herzegovina shock brigades, from 10 August 1942; Deputy Commander of the Third Shock Division and commander of the 29th Herzegovina Partisan divisions, from mid-November 1943 to end the war. The fighting in the western and central Bosnia, Kupres, around Imotski and Posusje, around Mrkonjić Grada, Glamoča, Jajca, Busovače, Turbeta, Žepča, Prozora and Rame, fighters of the Tenth Herzegovina shock brigade won a string of victories. In fighting for Jajca, Rama and the Neretva River, in battles for the liberation of Nevesinje and Gačak, in March–April 1943, soldiers of his brigade destroyed many Italian, Chetnik and Home Guard-Ustasha forces.

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