What is Ivan Maček?
{{Infobox President | name = Ivan Maček | image = Ivan Maček.jpg | caption = | office = 5th [[President of SR Slovenia|President of the People's Assembly of SR Slovenia]] | term_start = 1963 | term_end = 1967 | primeminister = [[Viktor Avbelj]]<br>[[Janko Smole]]<br>[[Stane Kavčić]] | predecessor = [[Miha Marinko]] | successor = [[Sergej Kraigher]] | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1908|5|28}} | birth_place = Spodnja Zadobrova, near [[Ljubljana|Laibach]], [[Austria-Hungary]] | nationality = [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]] ([[Yugoslavs|Yugoslav]]) | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1993|7|10|1908|5|28}} | death_place = [[Ljubljana]], [[Slovenia]] | party = [[League of Communists of Yugoslavia]] (SKJ) |}} '''Ivan Maček''', nom de guerre '''Matija''' (28 May 1908 &ndash; 10 July 1993), was a [[Yugoslavia|Yugoslav]] [[Communist]] politician from [[Slovenia]]. He served as the [[President of SR Slovenia|President of the People's Assembly of SR Slovenia]] from 1963 to 1967. ==Early life== Maček was born in Spodnja Zadobrova near Ljubljana, Austria-Hungary (now in Slovenia). He became a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in 1930. In 1935 was sent to the [[Soviet Union]]. He studied at the International Lenin School, Moscow. He returned to Yugoslavia in 1937. He became a member of the [[Central Committee]] of the Communist party of Slovenia. Yugoslav police detained him in 1938 and he was sentenced to four years in prison in Sremska Mitrovica. ==Later life and death== After the war, Maček moved into a mansion that had been confiscated from the pharmacist Leo Bahovec Maček was minister of the interior and vice-president of the Slovene government (1945–1953), vice-president of the Executive council of PR Slovenia and a member of the Federal Executive Council (1953–1963) and also the President of the People's Assembly of SR Slovenia (1963–1967). He was also a deputy in the National and