Edvard Kardelj

Edvard Kardelj
Kardelj in 1959
Member of the Presidency of Yugoslavia for SR Slovenia
In office 15 May 1974 – 10 February 1979
President	Josip Broz Tito
Preceded by	Marko Bulc Sergej Kraigher Mitja Ribičič
Succeeded by	Sergej Kraigher
7th President of the Federal Assembly of Yugoslavia
In office 29 June 1963 – 16 May 1967
Preceded by	Petar Stambolić
Succeeded by	Milentije Popović
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Yugoslavia
In office 31 August 1948 – 15 January 1953
Prime Minister	Josip Broz Tito
Preceded by	Stanoje Simić
Succeeded by	Koča Popović
Deputy Prime Minister of Yugoslavia
In office 2 February 1946 – 29 June 1963
Prime Minister	Josip Broz Tito
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Boris Kraigher Miloš Minić Veljko Zeković
Personal details
Born	(1910-01-27)27 January 1910 Ljubljana, Austria-Hungary
Died	10 February 1979(1979-02-10) (aged 69) Ljubljana, Slovenia, Yugoslavia
Cause of death	Colon cancer
Resting place	Tomb of National Heroes, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Nationality	Slovenian
Political party	League of Communists of Yugoslavia
Spouse	Pepca Maček ​ (m. 1939)​
Children	Borut Kardelj
Relatives	Ivan Maček (brother-in-law)
Alma mater	Ljubljana Teachers' College International Lenin School Communist University of the National Minorities of the West
Nickname(s)	Bevc, Krištof, Sperans
Military service
Allegiance	Yugoslavia
Branch/service	Yugoslav Partisans Yugoslav People's Army
Years of service	1941–1979
Rank	Colonel general
Battles/wars	World War II in Yugoslavia

Edvard Kardelj (pronounced [ˈéːdʋaɾt kaɾˈdéːl]; 27 January 1910 – 10 February 1979), also known by the pseudonyms Bevc, Sperans, and Krištof, was a Yugoslav politician and economist. He was one of the leading members of the Communist Party of Slovenia before World War II. During the war, Kardelj was one of the leaders of the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People and a Slovene Partisan. After the war, he was a federal political leader in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He led the Yugoslav delegation in peace talks with Italy over the border dispute in the Julian March.

Kardelj was the main creator of the Yugoslav system of workers' self-management. He was an economist and a full member of both the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.^[1] He also played a major role in foreign policy by designing the fundamental ideological basis for the Yugoslav policy of nonalignment in the 1950s and the 1960s.^[2]