Stjepan Šiber
Stjepan Šiber | |
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Member of the House of Representatives | |
Personal details | |
Born | Gradačac, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina) | 20 August 1938
Died | 25 August 2016 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina | (aged 78)
Political party | Republican Party |
Military service | |
Allegiance | |
Branch/service | |
Rank | Brigadier general |
Battles/wars | Bosnian War |
Stjepan Šiber (20 August 1938 – 25 August 2016) was a Croat Bosnian brigadier general and politician who. After finishing high school in Gradačac, he went to Ljubljana, where he finished schooling at the military academy. Afterward, he became an officer in the Yugoslav People's Army. By 1992, he had become a lieutenant colonel. In 2000, he was elected to the House of Representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina.[1]
Bosnian War
[edit]In April 1992, he was accepted into a seat in the Presidency of Bosnia and replaced the commanding general of the army.[2] Then, in 1993, he was promoted to brigadier general and obtained a seat in the embassy of Bosnia in Switzerland.
Postwar
[edit]He was a member of the Republican Party, together with Stjepan Kljuić, a fellow wartime member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
References
[edit]- ^ Bose, Sumantra (2002). Bosnia after Dayton: nationalist partition and international intervention. Oxford University Press US. p. 229. ISBN 9780195158489. Retrieved 1 January 2011.
- ^ Kohlmann, Evan (2004). Al-Qaida's jihad in Europe: the Afghan-Bosnian network. Berg Publishers. p. 90. Retrieved 1 January 2011.
Stjepan Siber.