Mile Budak

Mile Budak
Mile Budak
3rd Foreign Minister of the Independent State of Croatia
In office 23 April 1943 – 5 November 1943
Leader	Ante Pavelić
Preceded by	Mladen Lorković
Succeeded by	Stijepo Perić
Ambassador to Nazi Germany
In office 2 November 1941 – 23 April 1943
1st Minister of Education of the Independent State of Croatia
In office 16 April 1941 – 2 November 1941
Leader	Ante Pavelić
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Stjepan Ratković
President of the Croatian State Leadership
In office 12 April 1941 – 16 April 1941
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Office abolished
Personal details
Born	(1889-08-30)30 August 1889 Sveti Rok, Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary
Died	7 June 1945(1945-06-07) (aged 55) Zagreb, DF Yugoslavia
Cause of death	Execution by hanging
Political party	Ustaše
Occupation	Politician, writer
Profession	Lawyer

Mile Budak (30 August 1889 – 7 June 1945) was a Croatian politician and writer best known as one of the chief ideologists of the Croatian fascist Ustaša movement, which ruled the Independent State of Croatia during World War II in Yugoslavia from 1941 to 1945 and waged a genocidal campaign of extermination against its Roma and Jewish population, and of extermination, expulsion and religious conversion against its Serb population.