| Mayor of the City of Zagreb | |
|---|---|
| Gradonačelnik Grada Zagreba | |
 The Mayor’s chain of honour | |
| Appointer | Direct elections (before 2009: by Zagreb Assembly) |
| Term length | 4 years unlimited number of renewals |
| Inaugural holder | Janko Kamauf |
| Formation | 1851 |
| Website | zagreb.hr |
This article contains a list of people who have served as mayor of Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, or president of the Zagreb Assembly.
Ljubomir "Ljubo" Miloš was a Croatian public official who was a member of the Ustaše of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) during World War II. He served as commandant of the Jasenovac concentration camp on several occasions and was responsible for various atrocities committed there during the war. He fled Yugoslavia in May 1945 and sought refuge in Austria. In 1947, he returned to Yugoslavia with the intention of starting an anti-communist uprising. He was soon arrested by Yugoslav authorities and charged with war crimes. Miloš was found guilty on all counts and hanged in August 1948.
Ivan "Ivo" Herenčić was a general in the armed forces of the Independent State of Croatia, a fascist puppet state. In 1941, he commanded a battalion of Ustaše Militia that committed many war crimes and atrocities on civilians during the Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia. Born in Bjelovar in Austria-Hungary, he completed his secondary and tertiary education in Zagreb and Sarajevo in what was by then the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In 1933, he left Yugoslavia to join the fascist and ultranationalist Croatian Ustaše movement in Italy. Late that year, Herenčić participated in an unsuccessful assassination attempt on the King of Yugoslavia, Alexander.
Osman Kulenović was a Yugoslav politician and lawyer, most notable for serving as the Vice President of the Government of the Independent State of Croatia in 1941.
Enver Čolaković was a Bosnian novelist, poet and translator, best known for his 1944 novel The Legend of Ali-Pasha. During the later stages of World War II he served as a cultural attaché to the Independent State of Croatia embassy in Budapest. After the war he spent the rest of his life in Zagreb, where he published a number of literary translations from Hungarian and German.
Viktor Pavičić was a Croatian military commander who led the 369th Reinforced Croatian Infantry Regiment, which fought on the Eastern Front and was involved in the Battle of Stalingrad during World War II.
Mehmed Alajbegović was a Bosnian Muslim politician, lawyer and a government minister of the Independent State of Croatia, an Axis puppet state. He was executed for war crimes by Yugoslav authorities following the war.
Ante Vokić was a Croatian politician, general and putschist. Member of the Ustaše, he was the Minister of Armed Forces of the Independent State of Croatia from 29 January to 30 August 1944, succeeding Miroslav Navratil.
Metropolitan Germogen, secular name Georgy Ivanovich Maximov, was bishop of Aksay, Vicar of the Don Diocese, 23rd Bishop of Yekaterinoslav and Novomoskovsk, Governor of the Russian Orthodox municipalities on Crete and North Africa with a seat in Athens (1922), Archbishop of Yekaterinoslav and Novomoskovsk (1922–1942), member of the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad (1924–1942), the head of the Croatian Orthodox Church (1942–1945).
Branko Benzon was a Croatian physician, diplomat and politician.
Stjepan "Stijepo" Perić was a Croatian lawyer, politician, diplomat and member of the Croatian ultra-nationalist Ustaše. After the creation of the Independent State of Croatia in April 1941, he served as ambassador to Italy and to Bulgaria, and then as Foreign Minister. He was forced to resign from his ministerial post in April 1944 after a string of incidents in which his attitude and behavior irritated senior Axis leaders, including Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.
Vladimir Košak was a Croatian economist, lawyer, politician and NDH diplomat, hanged for war crimes after World War II.
Ljudevit Tomašić was a Croatian politician and prominent member of the Croatian Peasant Party (HSS). He is known for his participation in the failed Lorković-Vokić plot in 1944 which aim was to create a coalition government between the Ustaše and the HSS and bring the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) on the side of Allies. Tomašić was arrested in August 1944, and killed in April 1945.
Petar Milutin Kvaternik was a Croatian politician and brother of Slavko Kvaternik, Minister of the Armed Forces of the Independent State of Croatia. After he attempted to proclaim the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) in Crikvenica, he was arrested by group of Yugoslav naval officers, and killed during the scuffle between him and prison guards later same night.
Džafer Kulenović, often referred to as Džafer-beg Kulenović, was a Bosnian Muslim and Yugoslav politician who led the Yugoslav Muslim Organization in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and was briefly Minister of Forestry and Mining in the pre-war Yugoslav governments of Dragiša Cvetković and Dušan Simović. During World War II, he served as the Vice President of the Axis puppet state the Independent State of Croatia.
Ivan Tomašević was a Croatian general who served as a captain in the Austrian-Hungarian Army and as colonel in the Royal Yugoslav Army. After the establishment of the Independent State of Croatia, Tomašević joined the Croatian Home Guard.
Ante Nikšić was a Croatian lawyer and politician who served as Minister of Interior of the Independent State of Croatia between 1942 and 1943.
Mirko Beljan was an Ustaše officer in the Independent State of Croatia during World War II.
Delko Bogdanić was a Croatian military officer who served in army of Ustaše and later in Crusaders guerilla army.
The Ustaše Youth was the youth wing of the Ustaše, a Croatian fascist, genocidal and ultranationalist organization active during the interwar period and World War II. The Ustaše governed an Axis puppet state called the Independent State of Croatia between 1941 and 1945.
Mile Starčević was a politician born in Gospić, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary. He studied philosophy, graduating and attaining a PhD from the University of Zagreb in 1932. During the study, he was convicted and imprisoned for opposing the regime in 1930. In late 1930s, Starčević was the administrator of the Zagreb City Library and the economic secretary of the Matica hrvatska, and a member of the Croatian Federalist Peasant Party. After the April 1941 Invasion of Yugoslavia during the World War II and establishment of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) as a puppet state collaborating with the occupying Axis powers, Starčević became the general secretary of Matica hrvatska in August 1941 and a head of a department of the Ministry of Education in February 1942. He became the minister of the same ministry in October 1942, and held the position for a year – resigning the post after Nikola Mandić became the prime minister. In 1943, acting on instructions of the NDH leader Ante Pavelić, Starčević unsuccessfully negotiated with representatives of the HSS aimed at gaining the party's political support for Pavelić's regime. In 1945, after the defeat of the NDH, Starčević fled to Austria and then Italy where he remained in a refugee camp until 1947 before moving to Argentina.
