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Place of Birth: Oroszló, Baranya County, Hungary
About Iván Skerlecz
- Baron Iván Skerlecz de Lomnicza (often rendered Ivan Škrlec Lomnicki in Croatian; 20 July 1873 – 12 January 1951) was a Croatian ban (viceroy) between 21 July, 1913, until 29 June, 1917. Skerlecz was born in Oroszló, Baranya County, Kingdom of Hungary in 1873.
- He was born into Šokci origin aristocratic family.
- The Hungarian prime minister István Tisza appointed Skerlecz head of the Austro-Hungarian crown land in 1913, shortly before World War I. While Croatia-Slavonia was not the site of any battles, Croatian troops, fighting under the Croatian Home Guard took part in the fighting, much of it in neighbouring Serbia.
- Skerlecz managed to reconvene the Croatian Sabor (parliament) in Zagreb by 1915.
- The Croats made further demands for local authority, as well as unification of Croatia-Slavonia with Dalmatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- Stefan Sarkotic, Austria-Hungary's commander in Bosnia and Herzegovina also sought unification of their provinces.
- However, Austria-Hungary's outdated political system made any shifts between areas under Hungarian or Austrian spheres of influence difficult.
- Skerlecz could only support the Croatians in acting autonomously.
- As the war progressed more Croats found the formation of a South Slav state a potentially beneficial possibility. He resigned from his post on June 29, 1917 after Tisza was ousted from power, leaving the country in no better state than when he had arrived.
- The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was formed the following year.
- Skerlecz became persona non grata in Kingdom of Yugoslavia, because he was known as an ardent opponent of the involvement of Croatia in the newly formed Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
- Skerlecz had to return to Hungary where he died in Budapest in 1951.
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