Dušan Dragosavac


Dušan Dragosavac was a Yugoslav politician of Serb ethnicity from Croatia who was Chairman of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia from 20 October 1981 until 20 June 1982.
Born in the village of Vrebac near Gospić, Dragosavac graduated from the University of Zagreb Faculty of Law. He joined the Young Communist League of Yugoslavia in 1941 and the League of Communists of Yugoslavia in 1942. During World War II he was member of the Yugoslav Partisans. After the war he spent his entire career in politics and since the 1950s held various senior positions in the League of Communists of Croatia, the Croatian branch of the SKJ. He died on 21 December 2014, aged 95.