Vjekoslav Luburić, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Vjekoslav Luburić

Croatian general

Date of Birth: 20-Jun-1913

Place of Birth: Ljubuški, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Date of Death: 20-Apr-1969

Profession: soldier, torturer

Nationality: Croatia

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Vjekoslav Luburić

  • Vjekoslav "Maks" Luburic (6 March 1914 – 20 April 1969) was a Bosnian Croat member of the fascist Ustaše movement who headed the system of concentration camps in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) during much of World War II.
  • Luburic also personally oversaw multiple massacres of Serbs, and spearheaded the contemporaneous genocides of Jews and Roma in the NDH. Luburic joined Ante Pavelic's Ustaše movement in 1931, left Yugoslavia the following year and relocated to Hungary.
  • Following the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia and the establishment of the NDH with Pavelic at its head, Luburic returned to the Balkans.
  • In late June 1941, Luburic was dispatched to the Lika region, where he oversaw a series of massacres of Serbs, which served as the casus belli for the Srb uprising.
  • Around this time, he was appointed head of Bureau III, a department of the Ustaše Surveillance Service tasked with overseeing the NDH's sprawling network of concentration camps, most notably Jasenovac, where approximately 100,000 were killed over the course of the war.
  • In late 1942, Luburic was appointed commander of the Croatian Home Guard's 9th Infantry Regiment, but was stripped of his command after shooting and killing one of his subordinates.
  • Under German pressure, he was placed under house arrest, but retained de facto control of the Ustaše concentration camps.
  • In August 1944, he played a leading role in the disruption of the Lorkovic–Vokic plot, which sought to overthrow Pavelic and replace him with a pro-Allied government.
  • In February 1945, Pavelic dispatched Luburic to Sarajevo, where over the next two months, he oversaw the torture and killing of hundreds of known and suspected communists.
  • Luburic flew back to Zagreb in early April and was promoted to the rank of General. The NDH collapsed in May 1945 and Croatia was reintegrated into Yugoslavia.
  • Luburic stayed behind to conduct a guerrilla warfare campaign against the communists, during which he was seriously wounded.
  • In 1949, he emigrated to Spain and became active in Ustaše émigré circles.
  • In 1955, Luburic broke with Pavelic over the latter's professed support for a future division of Bosnia between Greater Croatia and Greater Serbia, and formed a rival Croatian nationalist organization known as the Croatian National Resistance.
  • The spat resulted in great mutual acrimony between the two men, and when Pavelic died in 1959, Luburic was forbidden from attending his funeral.
  • In April 1969, Luburic was found murdered in his home, a victim of either the Yugoslav secret police or rivals in the Croatian émigré community.

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