Rudi Kolak

Rudolf Kolak
President of the Yugoslav Chamber of Commerce
In office 1969–1974
5th President of the Executive Council of PR Bosnia and Herzegovina
In office 14 June 1965 – 1967
Preceded by	Hasan Brkić
Succeeded by	Branko Mikulić
Personal details
Born	(1918-11-04)4 November 1918 Gornji Ribnik, State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs
Died	22 December 2004(2004-12-22) (aged 86) Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
Nationality	Croat
Political party	League of Communists of Yugoslavia
Profession	Civil servant, soldier
Military service
Allegiance	Yugoslavia
Branch/service	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 to a Bosnian Croat family. He studied at the University of Belgrade's Law School until 1940. Kolak joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in 1941, joining the Partisans. 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 1963-65 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 1967-69 and President of the Yugoslav Chamber of Commerce from 1969-74.

References

Books

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