| 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.
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.
The Croatian Armed Forces were formed in 1944 with the uniting of the Croatian Home Guard and the Ustaše Militia in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH). It was established by the fascist Ustaše regime of Ante Pavelić in the NDH an Axis puppet state in Yugoslavia during World War II.
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.
Dobrići is a village in the Municipality of Tomislavgrad in Canton 10 of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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.
Edgar Angeli was a Croatian rear admiral who served as the commander of the Navy of the Independent State of Croatia between 1943 and 1944.
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.
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.
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.
Kerubin Šegvić was a Croatian priest, writer and historian.
Boris Bakrač was a Croatian civil engineer and politician. Bakrač graduated from the University of Zagreb in 1936 before starting a career in civil engineering. After the outbreak of the World War II and the Invasion of Yugoslavia, he joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, as its covert agent in Zagreb in 1942. A year later, the Partisan resistance command in Croatia appointed Bakrač the chief negotiator for prisoner exchanges with the Axis powers within the framework of the German–Yugoslav Partisan negotiations. He oversaw exchange of a total of 700 to 800 Axis-held prisoners of war in the process. He conducted the negotiations under the pseudonym Ivo Zuljević to conceal his identity.
