Milan Heimerl

Milan Heimerl (15 August 1876 – 10 July 1917) was a Croatian politician and lawyer. During Emperor Franz Joseph's 1895 visit to Zagreb, Heimerl took part as a student in a protest in which the Hungarian flag was burnt. He joined the Progressive Youth movement and pursued careers in law and politics, unsuccessfully running for a seat in the Sabor in three parliamentary elections in the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, which was then a part of Austria-Hungary. He served in the Croatian Party of Rights and co-founded the Croatian Progressive Party, and was a newspaper editor. Throughout his political career, Heimerl advocated cooperation between Croats and Serbs to further South Slavic interests in Austria-Hungary. Heimerl was most active in politics and journalism, editing and publishing journals and newspapers affiliated with the parties he supported, between 1902 and early 1910s when his focus shifted to practising law.