Đuro Basariček

Đuro Basariček (Zagreb, March 13, 1884 - Belgrade, June 20, 1928) was a Croatian politician, lawyer and social activist. He was a member of the Croatian Peasant Party from its founding in 1904. He was assassinated in the National Assembly of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in Belgrade in 1928.

He was he the son of Stjepan Basariček and Amalija née Pogačnik from Đurđevac. He finished elementary school, gymnasium and a law degree in Zagreb where he also received his doctorate in law in 1907. He served as a judge in Slavonski Brod and in Zagreb.

Basariček was active in saving disadvantaged children, and in the relocation of such children from the areas of Istria and Bosnia and Herzegovina into more fertile areas, largely in Slavonia and Podravina. In 1919 Basariček began his involvement in the colonization of Slavonia from areas such Gorski kotar and Lika, and continued with this cause until his death.

From the founding of the Croatian Peasant Party, Basariček collaborated with its leader Stjepan Radić. Believing as Radić did that the Croats needed to embrace Pan-Slavism, Basariček learned Czech and Russian.

Basariček was elected to the National Assembly of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes four times: in 1920, 1923, 1925 and 1927. In 1927 he addressed the assembly saying that "dark powers" were preparing a dictatorship which was "equally dangerous to the Croats and to Serbdom". On June 20, 1928 Basariček was assassinated by Radical representative Puniša Račić. In the attack Pavle Radić was also killed and Stjepan Radić was fatally wounded. The event led to King Alexander's proclamation of a dictatorship in the Kingdom on January 6, 1929 and the renaming of the country to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

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Name	Basaricek, Duro
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Short description	Croatian politician
Date of birth	March 13, 1884
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Date of death	June 20, 1928
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