Rade Končar (Serbian Cyrillic: Раде Кончар; 6 August/28 October 1911 – 22 May 1942) was a Croatian Serb politician and leader of the Yugoslav Partisans in the Independent State of Croatia and Dalmatia during the early stages of World War II in Yugoslavia. He became a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ) in 1934 and was arrested in 1936 when the Belgrade branch of the party was banned by Yugoslav authorities. After serving one year of hard labour in Sremska Mitrovica prison he was released and elected political secretary of the central committee of the League of Communists of Croatia (SKH) in Zagreb. In October 1940, he was made a member of the central committee of the KPJ at the Fifth National Conference of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.
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6 August 1911 Končarev Kraj, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary
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Died |
22 May 1942 (aged 30)
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Zodiac | Leo |
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