Zdenko Blažeković (23 September 1915 – 12 January 1947) was a Croatian fascist politician, soldier, athlete and writer who acted as the student commissar of the Ustaše University Centre (USS), commander of the male Ustaše Youth, and commissioner for the State Leadership for Physical Education and Sport in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) during World War II. Born in the town of Bihać, he finished high school in Osijek before applying to join a technical college in Zagreb with the intention of becoming a builder. He was a member of various Croatian cultural and athletic organizations during his youth, playing the position of goalkeeper for the football clubs Hajduk Osijek and HAŠK Građanski.
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| - Zdenko Blažeković (23 September 1915 – 12 January 1947) was a Croatian fascist politician, soldier, athlete and writer who acted as the student commissar of the Ustaše University Centre (USS), commander of the male Ustaše Youth, and commissioner for the State Leadership for Physical Education and Sport in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) during World War II. Born in the town of Bihać, he finished high school in Osijek before applying to join a technical college in Zagreb with the intention of becoming a builder. He was a member of various Croatian cultural and athletic organizations during his youth, playing the position of goalkeeper for the football clubs Hajduk Osijek and HAŠK Građanski.
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| - Zdenko Blažeković (23 September 1915 – 12 January 1947) was a Croatian fascist politician, soldier, athlete and writer who acted as the student commissar of the Ustaše University Centre (USS), commander of the male Ustaše Youth, and commissioner for the State Leadership for Physical Education and Sport in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) during World War II. Born in the town of Bihać, he finished high school in Osijek before applying to join a technical college in Zagreb with the intention of becoming a builder. He was a member of various Croatian cultural and athletic organizations during his youth, playing the position of goalkeeper for the football clubs Hajduk Osijek and HAŠK Građanski. Briefly a member of the Croatian Peasant Party (HSS), Blažeković was imprisoned several times by Yugoslav authorities because of his involvement with various Croatian youth organizations and was often involved in clashes with Communist students. Joining the Ustaše in 1939, he was named to the newly formed Ustaše supervisory committee by politician Slavko Kvaternik following the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia and the establishment of the NDH in April 1941. That month he became the leader of the Ustaše University Centre and Ustaše Youth, charged with organizing student bodies at the University of Zagreb and promoting the Ustaše's policy of preventing all non-Croats from attending universities in the country. In 1942, he was involved in the formation of the 13th Ustaše Assault Corps and by 1943 had attained a seat in the Croatian Parliament. That year, he joined Ante Pavelić's personal bodyguard, being promoted to the rank of Major. He held the position of head of the Ustaše University Centre and Ustaše Youth until January 1945, when he was appointed commissioner for Physical Education and Sport. He fled Zagreb in May and ended up in a refugee camp in Salzburg, Austria. In August, he was arrested by American forces and extradited to Yugoslavia on 12 February 1946. He was tried in Zagreb on 12 January 1947, sentenced to death, and executed the same day.
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