General Anton Vovk was a Kresimirian military officer who served as the first Chief State Councillor of the Council for Internal Affairs (CIA), from 1921 to 1932.
Appointed by Chancellor Kresimirovic I when the CIA was established under the 1921 Constitution, Vovk oversaw the Republic’s earliest internal security apparatus during the turbulent founding decade. His tenure included managing the 1924 crisis following the assassination of Senator Ivana Simuna and the subsequent split that produced the Sons of Kresimir.
Vovk was succeeded in 1932 by Petar Zima, who would go on to architect the far more extensive security state of the Iron Era. Vovk’s military background established the precedent of appointing hardline security chiefs to head the CIA — a pattern repeated by generals Borna Kulas and others in later decades.