STJEPAN RADIĆ KAO MINISTAR PROSVETE KRALJEVINE SRBA, HRVATA I SLOVENACA
Stjepan Radić as the Minister of Education for the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians

Summary/Abstract: Mr. Stjepan Radić was the Minister of Education for the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians in the November 17, 1925 to April 15, 1926 period. The Minister of Education’s ministerial duties were regulated by both the Vidovdan Constitution and legal acts regulating the state administration. These were the basics on which the Minister’s duties in domains of education, science and culture were regulated. Papers, established by Mr. Stjepan Radić in his capacity of Minister of Education, were classified by their basic functions: organizational, normative-judicial, material, personnel, and the other. Mr. Radi} established the vast majority of fundamental functions, out of which 3.627 (75,75%) were organizational ones. The purpose of establishing numerous organizational functions was to implement in practice, as successfully as possible, provisions on education, upbringing and culture, as anticipated by the Croatian Peasant Party political program, e.g. by Mr. Radi} as its leader. In the course of his term of office Mr. Stjepan Radić, the Minister of Education, established the most functions – 2.466 (51,50%) out of 4.788 total – for the post-secondary Economy-Commercial School in Zagreb. By establishing them, he contrived one of the essential items of his own education and culture program, which was higher representation of sciences essential to wellbeing of both economy and state as a whole, at the Zagreb University. In this case these were economic-commercial sciences, together with pragmatic commercial subjects such as banking or accounting.

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