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Josip Predavec ( Rugvica , July 2 , 1884 – Dugo Selo , July 14 , 1933 ) was a Croatian historian, agronomist, and politician. Enlightener of the Croatian peasantry.

Josip Predavec was born in 1884 in Rugvica. ^[ 2 ] His parents, Janko Predavec and Jaga Vlahović, were poor peasants. ^[ 3 ] He completed his studies with the support of the Foundation for the Education of Talents, founded by landowner Eduard Jelačić. ^[ 4 ] After graduating from the classical high school in Zagreb, he went to Tabor in the Czech Republic, where he graduated from the Academy of Economics. ^[ 2 ] After finishing school, Predavec spent more than half a year on business trips in Krajna , Styria , the Czech Republic and Moravia , before going to Denmark for a few weeks . ^[ 5 ] The time leading up to the First World War was filled with economic and political work, he founded cooperative courses, organized animal husbandry and milk production in Gorski Kotar . During the First World War, as an army officer, he was first on the battlefield in Serbia and then in Galicia , and when he was wounded for the second time, he was assigned to Serbia as an economic expert. ^[ 6 ] During his stay and activities in Serbia, he tried to preserve the Library of the Serbian Agricultural Society, held economic courses for rural youth in the Smederevo district, renovated kindergartens and managed the school’s assets. ^[ 7 ] After the war, he returned to his homeland, Dugo Seló, where he had already bought a house before the war, and instead devoted his time to politics and was actively involved in the work of the then Croatian People’s Peasant Party (HPSS).

On July 14, 1933, under very suspicious circumstances and with strong suspicions of supporting the Belgrade regime, he was killed in front of his house in Dugo Selo by a fellow Serbian nationalist and terrorist, Tomo Koščec from Dugo Selo. ^{[ 8 ] [ 9 ]}

He was buried in the common grave of the peasant party leaders in the arcade row of the Mirogoj cemetery in Zagreb, where he rests together with the victims of the 1928 Belgrade parliamentary assassination , Stjepan Radić , Pavle Radić and Đuro Basariček . ^[ 10 ]

Predavec was one of the co-founders of the HPSS, and later became the vice-president of the party. ^[ 11 ] After the First World War, he actively cooperated with the Radić brothers, participating in the founding and management of peasant economic organizations (Hrvatski seljački dom, Glavna zadruga hrvatskih seljačkih gospodarske zadruga, Hrvatska seljačka zadružna banka, Osiguravajuća zadruga “Providnost”). ^[ 2 ] In 1919, he became secretary and then vice president of the Croatian People’s Peasant Party. ^[ 12 ]

On January 2, 1925, after King Alexander I of Yugoslavia signed the “Obznana” decree against the HSS on January 1, he was arrested along with HRSS leadership Vladimir Maček , Juraj Krnjević , August Košutić and Stjepan Košutić, ^[ 13 ] The Based on the agreement between HSS and the People’s Radical Party (NRS), and after the establishment of the Radical-Radić government, they were released from prison on July 18 of the same year. ^[ 14 ]

On December 10, 1929, he was arrested on the charge of being guilty of the bankruptcy of Seljačka zadružna banka, and on June 7, 1930, in a mock trial, he was sentenced to two and a half years in prison ^[ 15 ] and three years of ban from public affairs, as well as a fine of five thousand dinars for the benefit of the fund for the establishment of penal institutions. ^[ 16 ] During the trial, his main defender was Mirko Košutić, and his other defenders were Ivan Pernar , Matej Mintas, Radivoj Walter, Ivan Pobor, Žiga Scholl, Mile Budak ^[ 17 ] and others. ^[ 18 ]

Regarding the verdict in the case of Predavec, Maček noted: “The case of Predavec best shows the extent to which the regime was able to corrupt the judiciary in Croatia. The investigating judge, who was in charge of Predavec’s case, concluded after a long investigation that Predavec was not to blame for the collapse of Seljačke banka, and therefore submitted to the council a proposal to suspend the proceedings against Predavec and release him immediately. The president of the Zagreb council then took the case away from this honest judge and assembled a panel of judges that convicted Predavec.” ^[ 19 ]

After the court proceedings, Predavec was taken to Lepoglava to serve his sentence and was convicted twice more during his sentence. ^[ 9 ] On 8 September 1930, he was brought before the Zagreb Court on the charge that he had declared in February 1929 that the king should not have dissolved the National Assembly and was sentenced to another two months. ^[ 9 ] He and his lawyer, Mirko Košutić, were brought before the court in Belovar for a second time on charges of contempt of court and sentenced to another 14 days in prison and a fine, while Mirko Košutić was sentenced to one month in prison and a fine. ^[ 9 ]

In November 1932, he was one of the signatories of the points in Zagreb .

After Vladimir Maček was sentenced to 3 years in prison by the State Defense Court in Belgrade on April 29, 1933 , Josip Predavec took over the leadership of the HSS, assisted by Maček and Ante Trumbić . ^[ 10 ]

• Gospodarstvo, prosvjeta, politika , Zagreb, 1907. (co-authors Franjo Novljan and Stjepan Radić)
• Pučka prosvjeta u Danskoj , Zagreb, 1909.
• O narodnom hodzorman , Zagreb, 1909.
• Federalizam naše carevine i narodno oslobodjenje , Zagreb, 1910. (co-authors Stjepan Radić and Antun Radić)
• Gospodarski zakoni i nadda u hrvatskim i drugim slavskim zemljemi , 1912.
• Agrarizam kao svetni pokret i glavene seljačke gözpenik pobreje u Hrvatska. Svezak I. , Knjižnica gospodarskoga preporoda. Skupina I. Agrarna politika u znanosti i životu. Zagreb, 1912.
• Prevara i politika , Zagreb, 1929.

• Selo i seljaci , Zagreb, 1934. (co-author and publisher: Božidar Murgić.)