Rudi Kolak

Rudolf Kolak


President of the Yugoslav Chamber of Commerce
In office 1969–1974
5th President of the Executive Council of the People's Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina
In office 1965–1967
Preceded by	Hasan Brkić
Succeeded by	Branko Mikulić
Personal details
Born	(1918-11-04)4 November 1918 Gornji Ribnik, Ključ, State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs
Died	22 December 2004(2004-12-22) (aged 86) Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
Nationality	Croat^[1]
Political party	League of Communists of Yugoslavia
Profession	Civil servant, soldier
Military service
Allegiance	Yugoslavia
Service/branch	Yugoslav Partisans
Years of service	1941–1945

Rudolf Kolak (4 November 1918 – 22 December 2004) was a Yugoslav and Bosnian communist politician.

Biography

Kolak was born in Gornji Ribnik near Ključ in Bosnia. He studied at the University of Belgrade's Law School until 1940. Kolak joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in 1941 thus becoming a Yugoslav Partisan. Later he became a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.

After the war, Kolak held various posts: he was Secretary of the People's Assembly of Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, President of People's Assembly in Banja Luka, President of the Supervisory Committee, and Minister in the Government of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. After that he was spokesman in the Ministry of Finance of the Government of SFR Yugoslavia and spokesman of the President of Yugoslavia, Josip Broz Tito. From 1963 to 1965 he was Vice President of the Executive Council of SR Bosnia and Herzegovina and became President of the Executive Council of SR Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1965 and held that post until 1967. After that he was Vice President of the Federal Government of SFR Yugoslavia from 1967 to 1969 and President of the Yugoslav Chamber of Commerce from 1969 to 1974.

References

Notes

↑ Mestrovic & Latkovic 1988, p. 20.

Books

Mestrovic, Matthew; Latkovic, Radovan (1988). The Croatian Response to the Serbian National Program. Saddle River, NJ: Croatian National Congress.

Prime Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Prime Ministers of PR Bosnia and Herzegovina (1945–1953)	Rodoljub Čolaković Đuro Pucar

Presidents of the Executive Council of SR Bosnia and Herzegovina (1953–1992)	Đuro Pucar Avdo Humo Osman Karabegović Hasan Brkić Rudi Kolak Branko Mikulić Dragutin Kosovac Milanko Renovica Seid Maglajlija Gojko Ubiparip Josip Lovrenović Marko Ćeranić Jure Pelivan

Prime Ministers of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992–1997)	Jure Pelivan Mile Akmadžić Haris Silajdžić Hasan Muratović

Co-Chairmen of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1997–2000)	Haris Silajdžić and Boro Bosić Haris Silajdžić and Svetozar Mihajlović

Chairmen of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina (since 2000)	Spasoje Tuševljak Martin Raguž Božidar Matić Zlatko Lagumdžija Dragan Mikerević Adnan Terzić Nikola Špirić Vjekoslav Bevanda Denis Zvizdić

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