Jozef Tiso, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jozef Tiso

Slovak priest and politician, president of the First Slovak Republic

Date of Birth: 13-Oct-1887

Place of Birth: Bytča, Slovak Socialist Republic, Slovakia

Date of Death: 18-Apr-1947

Profession: politician, Catholic priest, cleric

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Jozef Tiso

  • Jozef Tiso (Slovak pronunciation: ['j?z?f 'tis?]; 13 October 1887 – 18 April 1947) was a Slovak politician and Roman Catholic priest who governed the Slovak Republic, a client state of Nazi Germany during World War II, from 1939 to 1945.
  • After the war, he was executed in 1947 for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Bratislava. Born in 1887 to Slovak parents in Bytca, then part of Austria-Hungary, Tiso studied several languages during his school career, including Hebrew and German.
  • He was introduced to priesthood from an early age and helped combat local poverty and alcoholism in what is now Slovakia.
  • He joined the Slovak People's Party (Slovenská ludová strana) in 1918 and became party leader in 1938 following the death of Andrej Hlinka.
  • When Nazi Germany seized Czechoslovakia in 1938, the German authorities founded the Slovak Republic out of the Slovak portion of the country, while the Czech portion became the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
  • Tiso became the Republic's President in 1939. Tiso collaborated with Germany in deportations of Jews, deporting many Slovak Jews to extermination and concentration camps in Germany, while some Jews in Slovakia were murdered outright.
  • An anti-fascist partisan insurgency was waged against Tiso, culminating in the Slovak National Uprising in 1944, which was suppressed by German authorities with many of its leaders executed. When the Soviet Red Army overran the last parts of western Slovakia in April 1945, Tiso fled to Austria and then Germany where American troops arrested him and then had him extradited back to the reformed Czechoslovakia, where he was convicted of treason against the state, treason against the uprising and collaboration, and then executed by hanging in 1947 and buried in Bratislava.

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