Hrvoje Kačić

Biography

Hrvoje Kačić was born on 13 January 1932 in Dubrovnik. He graduated from the Merchant Marine Acadmey in Dubrovnik in 1951, and in the same year passed his final exams at Dubrovnik High School.


Dr. Hrvoje Kačić with Taras Belej, Ukainean painter, and his mother Olena on the left, and D.Ž. on the right,
in the Mirko Virius Gallery in Tkalčićeva street in Zagreb, 2010.

He studied Law at the Universites of Zagreb and Sarajevo, and in February 1956 graduated from the Law Faculty at the University of Zagreb. In 1958 he became a full-time trainee with the Municipal Court in Dubrovnik and the High Commerical Court of Justice in Zagreb (Shipping Law Department). In December 1960 he passed both judicial and solicitor examinations. In January 1961 he joined Atlantska Plovidba, a shipping company in Zagreb.

Since 1965 he has been a member of the Presidency of the National Maritime Law Association, and since 1962 he has attended plenary Conferences of the Comité Maritime International / the CMI (Athens 1962, New York 1965, Tokyo 1969, Hamburg 1974, Rio de Janeiro 1977, Montreal 1981, Lisbon 1985, and Paris 1990). Since 1968, he has participated as a member of the State Delegation in a number of various diplomatic conferences.

From 1970 until 1974 he was Chairman of the Legal Standing Committee of the Internation Ship Owners Association (INSA) in Gdynia.

From 1981 until 1985 he was a member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Avarage Adjusters in Antwerp and a reporter at many United Nation Conferences on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva as well as at conferences related to issues of Maritime Insurance and Transport fo Goods by Sea.

He has participated in working groups and drafting committees that have organised preparatory activities for various International Maritime Conventions.

He was in charge of the Maritime Law Department in Dubrovnik Faculty, and taught postgraduate courses at the Faculty fo Law in Split and at the International Interuniversity Centry, University of Zagreb. He has lectured in Italy, Great Britain, Beligum, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, USA, China, Nigeria, Austria, Germany, Russia, Japan, Singapore and New Zealand.

He has published four monographs of Maritime Law and over forty articles on commercial and legal topics related to shipping, shipbuilding, insurance, investments, etc.

Over the years he has served as a member of Director's Boards of various internation corporations in the shipping and insurance sector. He has been a practising solicitor in Zagreb since 1989.

From 1950 until 1961 he was a member of the national water-polo team and played in the European Championshipin Vienna 1950 (bronze medal), the Olympic Games in Melbourne 1956 (silver medal), the European Championship in Budapest 1958 (silver medal), the Mediterranean Games in Beirut 1959 (gold meadl) and the Oyzmpic games in Rome 1960 (fourth place).

As a student he was imprisoned three times for political reasons, and was expelled once from university. On several occasions between 1950 and 1972 he was banned from travelling abroad.

In Croatia's first multiparty elections in 1990 he was elected in the first round from the Dubrovnik constituancy as an independent M.P. to the Croatian Parliament with the support from HDZ, HKDS, HSLS and HSS. As an M.P., he was elected chairman of the Committee for Foreign Affairs and voluntarily served in this function during the Croatian Parliament's first term. He represented Croatia in September and October 1991 at the Conference on the former Yugoslavia in The Hague under the charge of Croatian Parliament Community. He was also in charge of Croatian Parliament delegation at the Council of Europe Parliamnet, the Assemblies of Parlimentary members in the Central-European initiative and in NATO countries. He has never been a member of any political party.

From January 1994 until July 2001 he worked voluntarily as the President of the State Commmision for Boundaries of the Croatian Government.
 
Selected references:

  • Hrvoje Kačić: Serving My Country / Croatia Rediva, Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar, 3d printing, Zagreb 2006, ISBN 953-6666-21-9 (translated into Spanish - see below, German, Ukrainean and Polish editions in preparation)
  • Hrvoje Kačić: Al servicio de mi patria / Croatia rediviva, Instituo de ciencias sociales "Ivo Pilar", Fundacion para la emigracion croata, Zagreb 
  • Hrvoje Kačić: Dubrovačke žrtve / Jugokomunistički teror na hrvatskom jugu 1944. i poratnim godinama (početak Bleiburga), drugo dopunjeno izdanje, Gea, Zagreb 2010., ISBN 987-953-7604-03-05
  • Hrvoje Kačić: Dubrovnik and the calamities of war (two chapters from this book Serving My Country)


Croatian edition


English edition


Back cover of the English edition


Spanish edition


Back cover of the Spanish edition


German edition of the book.


Hrvoje Kačić: Dubrovačke žrtve
Jugokomunistički teror na hrvatskom jugu 1944. i poratnim godinama (početak Bleiburga),
drugo dopunjeno izdanje, Gea, Zagreb 2010. Prikaz dr. Inge Lisac o knjizi.


Ovu knjigu posvećujem svim nevinim žrtvama komunističkih zločina i bliskim srodnicima pogubljenih mučenika
Autor

KAZALO

  1. Sjećanja na ulazak partizana u Dubrovnik / Suočavanje s "pravdom osloboditelja"
  2. Partizanska samovolja "u ime naroda" / "Postupak vojnih sudova imade biti brz i bez suvišnih opširnosti, ali potpuno"
  3. Orsula / "Ma kakvi su to ljudi kojima i stablo mimoze pred kućom smeta" - dragovoljac Domovinskog rataiz Močića
  4. O petom desetljeću tragedije na Daksi / "Za njih se ne treba moliti, oni su već u Raju, njihovo je Kraljevstvo Nebesko" - padre Lino Pedišić
  5. Uzorci i posljedice Jugo-crvenoga terora / Po maskom proleterskog internacionalizma i staljinizma
  6. Listopadska iskustva / "Pa neka bude i Sovjetska Hrvatska, ali samo da je Hrvatska" - prof. Mako Milošević
  7. Partizani poubijali hrvatske anitfašiste / Oprostiti se mora, ali se zaboraviti ne smije
  8. Pero Kojavkoić - dragovoljac na istočnom bojištu / "Legionar borbu ljubi, Ne će da je tuđi rob; U toj borbi ako padne, Slavan bit će njegov grob" - Marš legionara, 25. 7. 1941.
  9. Marijan Blažić - crveni fratar / Ubijen kao vrijedan znanstvenik, iskreni vjernik i nepokolebljivi domoljub 
  10. Padre Petar Perica - apsotol, pjesnik i mučenik / Život posvećen uzoritom odgoju, duhovnoj izgradnji, katoličkoj vjeri i hrvatskom narodu
  11. Žrtve iz susjedstva / Oproštaj od nevinih žrtava iz susjedstva
  12. Festa sv. Vlaha 1945. u ozračju patnji / Kako festu sv. Vlaha predstaviti kao komunistički blagdan?
  13. Dike Dubrovnika: Ivo Mašina i Boris Krasovac / Protivnici svakog totalitarizma i borci protiv svakog zločina
  14. Devetnaestogodišnjak zauvijek napušta svoju domovinu / Nikša Milošević je vjerovao u hrvatsku pomirbu
  15. Poznanstvo s Haškim svjedokom - uzrok sankcija / Patnje Erike Milutin injenih najbližih
  16. Prvi put u pritvoru pred Božić 1946. / Sudbina liste engleskih nepravilnih glagola, ili: kako vrijeme zna biti neumoljivo
  17. Prvi put u zatvoru na zagrebačkom Zrinjevcu / Kako je OZNA kažnjavala hrvatske športske navijače
  18. Javno slavljenje Božića 1953. - sankcionirano / Božićni blagdani - odušak od totalitarne diktature
  19. Uposlenici nisu smjeli izaći iz sudske zgrade / "U ljubavi prema hrvatskom narodu nitko me ne može natkriliti" - Alojzije Stepinac, zagrebački nadbiskup 
  20. Dr. Vladko Maček zaslužuje naše štovanje / Vjera u Boga i hrvatska sloga
  21. Susreti i doživljaji / Ljudski je pogriješiti, ali nije kršćanski, ni politički korisno, ustrajati u zlu
  22. Završna razmatranja / Ljubav prema istini je dragocjena


Hrvoje Kačić: Vaterpolo i ćirilična pisaća mašina

Tijekom mojeg dugodišnjeg bavljenja športom posjetio sam u nekoliko navrata Moskvu i tadašnji Lenjingrad, ali već u to vrijeme sam želio posjetiti i Gruziju, koja je u to doba bila u sastavu SSSR-a. U vaterpolo reprezentaciji SSSR-a bilo je nekoliko vrhunskih igrača iz Gruzije, od kojih su mnogi bili članovi športskog kluba "Dinamo" Tbilisi. Ja sam s njima dogovarao da se organizira recipročna turneja između klubova "Jug" iz Dubrovnika i "Dinama" iz Tbilisija. Moji prijatelji iz SSSR-a su mi kazali, da s obzirom na vertikalni ustroj svih klubova, koji nastupaju diljem SSSR-a pod imenom "Dinamo", da se sve odluke donose u Moskvi, te da bi najučinkovitije bilo, ukoliko bi mi iz Dubrovnika uputili centralnom uredu "Dinama" iz Moskve poziv za gostovanje "Dinama" Tbilisi u Dubrovniku. Ti isti Gruzijci preuzeli obvezu da će oni potvrditi primitak poziva i prihvatiti poziv, te uzvratiti sa prijedlogom, da na prijateljskim turnejama, najprije "Jug" nastupi u Gruziji, pa da će nakon toga uslijediti gostovanje "Dinama" Tbilisi kod nas. Ja sam se složio s ovakvim prijedlogom, s tim da sam želio napisati službeni dopis "Juga" ćiriličkim pismom.

U tu svrhu pitao sam nekoliko svojih školskih kolega u Dubrovniku, znajuči da potiču iz srpskih i pravoslavnih obitelji u kojima su mnogi stariji članovi bili intelektualci, da mi posude pisaću mašinu na ćirilici. Nakon što sam dobio od svih upitanih informacije, da nemaju ćirilične pisaće mašine, zamolio sam kolegu Rastka Barbića, već tada odvjetnika u Dubrovniku koji je kasnije bio i na čelu lokalnih Srba u Dubrovniku, da me povede kod paroha pravoslavne crkve u Dubrovniku, što je on rado prihvatio. Nakon prethodno dogovorene posjete parohu, ja sam vrlo opširno iznio razloge za naše posjete i molbu, da nam dopusti korištenje pisaće mašine ovdje u njihovom uredu, a da će predstavnici "Juga" doći sa pripremljeim tekstom. Na to je pravoslavni paroh upao u moje izlaganje i rekao "Pa ni mi nemamo ćiriličnu pisaću mašinu", te doslovno dodao "pa ko to danas više piše ćirilicom".

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Ovaj istiniti događaj opisao je dr. Hrvoje Kačić u svojem poznatom djelu "U službi domovine / Croatia rediviva" (treće, dopunjeno izdanje), objavljenom u Zagrebu godine 2011. u izdanju Matice hrvatske, na str. 87. Ovdje se objavljuje s dopuštenjem (i na sugestiju) samog autora.


Hrvoje Kačić: "Dubrovačke žrtve", Jugokomunistički teror na hrvatskom jugu 1944. i portanim godinama (početak Bleiburga)

Kathy Wilkes

Hrvoje Kačić: Hrvatska Prevlaka, Matica hrvatska Zadar, 2015.

Hrvoje Kačić: The Hague Tribunal does not meet the obligations for which it was established, in Croatian and English

Dr. Hrvoje Kacic: The Hague Tribunal omits establishment of the truth


Dubrovnik

Croatia, Overview of History, Culture, and Science