Background
KRAIGHER, Sergej was born on May 30, 1914 in Postojna, Slovenia. Son of Anton Kraigher and Marija.JoSke.
KRAIGHER, Sergej was born on May 30, 1914 in Postojna, Slovenia. Son of Anton Kraigher and Marija.JoSke.
Zagreb University.
Sergej rose through the ranks of the Communist Party of Slovenia in the 1940s. He fought in the partisan resistance. He became chairman of the People"s Assembly of Slovenia in 1967.
He held that position until 1973, and then served as President of the Presidency of Slovenia from 1974 to 1981.
Kraigher is also known as the chairman of Kraigher Commission which was set up by the government of Yugoslavia to advise and give proposals in solving the Yugoslavian economic crisis which started to develop in the early to mid-1980s. The commission report was the basis of a reform package that was to be implemented by the Milka Planinc cabinet but it never happened.
He died in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Communist Party Committee, Ljubljana University. Presidency of South.F.R. of Yugoslavia 1979-1984. Central Committee, League of Communists of Slovenia since 1952, of Yugoslavia 1969-1973.
Collective Presidency of Yugoslavia 1979-1984.
Married Lidija Sentjurc in 1939.