Filip Filipović (politician)

Filip Filipović
Филип Филиповић
Political Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia
In office
December 1931  April 2, 1932
Preceded byJovan Mališić
Succeeded byMiloš Marković
In office
April 23, 1919  June 3, 1921
Serving with Živko Topalović (1919–20) and Sima Marković (1920–21)
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byTriša Kaclerović
41st Mayor of Belgrade
In office
August 25, 1920  September 3, 1920
Preceded byKosta Jovanović
Succeeded byĐoka Kara-Jovanović
Personal details
Born(1878-06-21)June 21, 1878
Čačak, Principality of Serbia
DiedApril 1938(1938-04-00) (aged 59)
Moscow, Soviet Union
Political partyCommunist Party of Yugoslavia
Other political
affiliations
Serbian Social Democratic Party, Communist Party of Soviet Union, Comintern
OccupationProfessor and politician

Filip Filipović (Serbian Cyrillic: Филип Филиповић; June 21, 1878 – April 1938) was a Serbian mathematician, one of the founders of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia and its first secretary. He spent most of his last ten years in the Soviet Union, where he was executed during the Great Purge.