Life as a student at the Franc Rozman Stane military gimnazija in Ljubljana Cover Image

Življenje dijaka v Vojaški gimnaziji Franc Rozman Stane Ljubljana
Life as a student at the Franc Rozman Stane military gimnazija in Ljubljana

Author(s): Enes Pašalić
Subject(s): Education, Military history, School education, History of Education, Pedagogy
Published by: Slovenski šolski muzej
Keywords: military education; General secondary military school in Ljubljana; Franc Rozman Stane military gimnazija Ljubljana; Yugoslav People’s Army; Territorial Defence; Slovenian Armed Forces; Enes Pašalič;

Summary/Abstract: On the basis of memories and preserved documentary material from his personal archive, the author describes his military education at the military gimnazija in Ljubljana just prior to Slovenia’s war of independence in 1991. The Franc Rozman Stane military gimnazija was founded in Ljubljana in 1975 and was the only military school in Slovenia in modern history. It was founded with the intention of encouraging more young Slovenians to choose a military profession. The statistics showed that there was an imbalance between the proportion of the population in the then Socialist Republic of Slovenia and the number of Slovenian officers and non-commissioned officers in the Yugoslav People’s Army. According to the statistical office data from 1971, the share of the Slovenian population in Yugoslavia was 8.2%, while its share in the Yugoslav People’s Army was 4.2% officers and 3% non-commissioned officers, and the trend was for these percentages to fall even further.

  • Issue Year: 31/2022
  • Issue No: 2-3
  • Page Range: 376-385
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Slovenian
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