The Most Famous
SOCIAL ACTIVISTS from Croatia
This page contains a list of the greatest Croatian Social Activists. The pantheon dataset contains 840 Social Activists, 1 of which were born in Croatia. This makes Croatia the birth place of the 74th most number of Social Activists behind Turkmenistan, and Kazakhstan.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Croatian Social Activists of all time. This list of famous Croatian Social Activists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Stjepan Filipović (1916 - 1942)
With an HPI of 56.12, Stjepan Filipović is the most famous Croatian Social Activist. His biography has been translated into 32 different languages on wikipedia.
Stjepan Filipović (27 January 1916 – 22 May 1942) was a Yugoslav communist who led the Kolubara Company of the Valjevo Partisan Detachment during the 1941 Partisan uprising. He was captured and executed in 1942 in Valjevo. A photo of him taken shortly before his execution became a symbol of resistance against fascism in the Second World War, and was, among others, exhibited in the United Nations building in New York. He was proclaimed People's Hero of Yugoslavia in 1949.
2. David Frankfurter (1909 - 1982)
With an HPI of 54.48, David Frankfurter is the 2nd most famous Croatian Social Activist. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages.
David Frankfurter (Hebrew: דוד פרנקפורטר, 9 July 1909 – 19 July 1982) was a Croatian Jew known for assassinating Wilhelm Gustloff, the Swiss branch leader of the Nazi Party, in February 1936 in Davos, Switzerland. He surrendered and confessed, telling the police that "I fired the shots because I am a Jew." Frankfurter was sentenced to 18 years in prison for murder. Shortly after V-E Day, he was granted a parliamentary pardon and released. As he left prison, sympathetic crowds cheered him as a hero.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Croatian social activists born between 1909 and 1916. Of these 2, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Croatian social activists include Stjepan Filipović, and David Frankfurter.
