Name Hakija Hadzic | Role Politician | |
Hakija Hadzic (1883–1953) was Herzegovinian Muslim politician who belonged to the group of Muslim politicians from Bosnia, who nationally felt Croats and approached the Ustasha movement. Hadzic belonged to a group of Muslim politicians who held pro-Croatian position in the interwar period.
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Interwar period
Hadzic was a politician who had the strongest influence on Muslim population of Yugoslavia before the Second World War. Before 1938 elections Hadzic established new political party (Croatian Muslim Peasant Party) which had received very modest support at the elections.
Second World War
As personal friend of Ante Pavelic, he promoted Ustasa politics in regions of Herzegovina and Bosnia. Hadzic thanked Pavelic for the establishment of NDH, while Pavelic appointed Hadzic as his Commissioner for Bosnia. Hadzic was Muslim Ustasa with highest rank in Sarajevo. Alija Nametak described Hadzic as one of extreme Croats, to distinguish them from people for whom their Croatian ethnic identity was less emphatic.
Hadzic claimed that he challenged Mehmed Spaho to a duel, while both of them were in Vienna, but Spaho refused to appear. Hadzic denounced Dzafer Kulenovic too, although he also had a prominent position in the NDH.