Boris Kidrič
Boris Kidrič | |
|---|---|
| Prime Minister of Slovenia | |
| In office 5 May 1945 – June 1946 | |
| President | Josip Vidmar |
| Preceded by | Position Established |
| Succeeded by | Miha Marinko |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 10 April 1912 |
| Died | 11 April 1953 (aged 41) |
| Party | League of Communists |
Boris Kidrič (10 April 1912 – 11 April 1953) was a Slovene and Yugoslav politician and revolutionary who was one of the chief organizers of the Slovene Partisans, the Slovene resistance against occupation by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy after Operation Barbarossa in June 1941. He became the de facto leader of the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People. As such, he had a crucial role in the anti-Fascist liberation struggle in Slovenia between 1941 and 1945. After World War II he was, together with Edvard Kardelj, a leading Slovenian politician in communist Yugoslavia.