Background
Pavelić was born in Zagreb and experienced his only international swimming tournament at the 1924 Games in Paris, where he failed to advance beyond the first round of the men"s 200 metre breaststroke event.
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Pavelić was born in Zagreb and experienced his only international swimming tournament at the 1924 Games in Paris, where he failed to advance beyond the first round of the men"s 200 metre breaststroke event.
As a swimmer he competed for Yugoslavia at the 1924 Summer Olympics. He eventually graduated from the University of Zagreb with a law degree and opened a private practice in the city after two years of work in the courts. Fluent in five languages, he built an international client base prior to World World War II, eventually moving to Switzerland in 1943 during the conflict.
While in the country, he competed actively in skiing.
He moved to Greenwich, Connecticut in 1951 and continued his business, with an emphasis on specialty gifts from Italy and Austria. Pavelić himself died in Greenwich in February 2011, at the age of 103.