Skip to content
Jozef Tiso

File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-2010-0049,_Josef_Tiso.jpg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons

EntityQ154346· pop 56· linked from 410 articles

Jozef Tiso

Sign in to save

Also known as Josef Tiso, Joseph Tiso, Father Tiso

Slovak politician, priest and president of the Slovak Republic from 1939 to 1945

AI overview

Jozef Tiso was a Slovak politician and Catholic priest who served as president of the Slovak Republic during World War II, from 1939 to 1945. His leadership during this period remains historically significant and controversial due to Slovakia's role and actions under his government during the war.

AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1887
Died
1947
Works
4

Top works

  • Dr.Jozef Tiso, dr. Ferdinand Ďurčanský a Alexander Mach pred súdom národa. Diel I
  • Ideologia slovenskej ľudovej strany
  • Dr. Jozef Tiso o sebe
  • Zamlčaná pravda o Slovensku
  • Prejavy a články

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
BR
Active from
1945-12-12

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1
Total plays
2

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Jozef+Tiso">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · Jozef Tiso

Quotes

  • ...We bow to the closest Slav, brother Czech, to apply our sovereignty as a small nation together with him in the common state. We are ready to stand guard over its life and to lay all the sacrifices on its altar. (...) However, we should be aware that our sovereignty is applied within the scope defined by the common agreement, otherwise, we have to apply a principle: a nation is more than a state.

via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA

~40 min read

Encyclopedic overview

Jozef Gašpar Tiso ( Slovak pronunciation: [ˈjɔzef ˈtisɔ], Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈjoʒɛf ˈtiso]; 13 October 1887 – 18 April 1947) was a Slovak politician, dictator, and Catholic priest who served as president of the First Slovak Republic, a client state of Nazi Germany during World War II, from 1939 to 1945. After the war, in 1947, he was convicted of treason and executed in Bratislava.

Born in 1887 to Slovak parents in Nagybiccse (today Bytča), then part of Hungary, Austria-Hungary, Tiso studied several languages during his school career, including Hebrew and German. He was introduced to priesthood from an early age, and helped combat local poverty and alcoholism in what is now Slovakia. He joined the Slovak People's Party (Slovenská ľudová strana) in 1918 and became party leader in 1938 following the death of Andrej Hlinka. On 14 March 1939, the Slovak Assembly in Bratislava unanimously adopted Law 1/1939 transforming the autonomous Slovak Republic (that was until then part of Czechoslovakia) into an independent country. Two days after Nazi Germany seized the remainder of the Czech Lands, the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was proclaimed.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jozef Tiso” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

Gallery (8)