Filip Filipović (politician)


Filip Filipović was a Serbian mathematician, communist politician and revolutionary.

Biography

Serbia and Yugoslavia

Filipović was an early activist and member of the Serbian Social Democratic Party in the Kingdom of Serbia, and one of the founders of the Socialist Workers' Party of Yugoslavia in 1919 and its first political secretary.
. Filip Filipović was elected mayor of Belgrade in 1920, but, refusing to pledge the oath to the King, he was not permitted to assume the office.
He was elected Mayor of Belgrade in the first elections in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in 1920, but was forcibly removed after a week and soon imprisoned for his revolutionary activity.

Emigration and death

After the ban of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia legal activity he emigrated from the Kingdom of Yugoslavia to the Soviet Union, where he continued his political actions.
During the Stalinist purges, he was shot dead along with many other leading Yugoslav communists.