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Jozef Tiso
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Slovak politician, priest and president of the Slovak Republic from 1939 to 1945
Jozef Tiso was a Slovak politician and Catholic priest who served as president of the Slovak Republic during World War II, from 1939 to 1945. His leadership during this period remains historically significant and controversial due to Slovakia's role and actions under his government during the war.
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jozef
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Hungary
- Place of birth
- Bytča
- Place of death
- Bratislava
- Occupation
- teacher
- Position held
- President of Slovakia
- Educated at
- University of Vienna
- Political party
- Slovak People's Party
- Languages spoken
- Latin
- Religion
- Catholic Church
- Field of work
- politics
- Image
- Bundesarchiv Bild 146-2010-0049, Josef Tiso.jpg
- Convicted of
- crime against humanity
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- Commons category
- Jozef Tiso
- date of birth
- 1887-10-13
- date of death
- 1947-04-18
- manner of death
- capital punishment
- cause of death
- hanging to death
- place of burial
- St. Emmeram's Cathedral, Nitra
- different from
- Josip Broz Tito
- name in native language
- Jozef Tiso
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Encyclopedic overview
Jozef Gašpar Tiso ( Slovak pronunciation: [ˈjɔzef ˈtisɔ], Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈjoʒɛf ˈtiso]; 13 October 1887 – 18 April 1947) was a Slovak politician, dictator, and Catholic priest who served as president of the First Slovak Republic, a client state of Nazi Germany during World War II, from 1939 to 1945. After the war, in 1947, he was convicted of treason and executed in Bratislava.
Born in 1887 to Slovak parents in Nagybiccse (today Bytča), then part of Hungary, Austria-Hungary, Tiso studied several languages during his school career, including Hebrew and German. He was introduced to priesthood from an early age, and helped combat local poverty and alcoholism in what is now Slovakia. He joined the Slovak People's Party (Slovenská ľudová strana) in 1918 and became party leader in 1938 following the death of Andrej Hlinka. On 14 March 1939, the Slovak Assembly in Bratislava unanimously adopted Law 1/1939 transforming the autonomous Slovak Republic (that was until then part of Czechoslovakia) into an independent country. Two days after Nazi Germany seized the remainder of the Czech Lands, the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was proclaimed.
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