Ivan Prpić (soldier), Date of Birth, Date of Death

Ivan Prpić (soldier)

Croatian general

Date of Birth: 12-Mar-1887

Date of Death: 10-Jan-1967

Profession: military personnel

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Ivan Prpic (12 March 1887 – 10 January 1967, Zagreb) was a Croatian infantry general of the Croatian Home Guard and its chief of staff from 1942–1943.
He received the Military Order of the Iron Trefoil in 1942. In July 1943 there was an assassination attempt on Prpic.
Some sources allege that it was organized by Ivo Herencic.In 1944 Prpic retired and moved with his family to the Slovak Republic, and later to Prague in the reestablished Czechoslovakia.
He was arrested by the British there in August 1945 and taken back to Yugoslavia.
After questioning in Belgrade and Zagreb he was released in October.Prpic was one of few generals of the Independent State of Croatia not to be sentenced by the communist regime in Yugoslavia, and was interred at Mirogoj cemetery.