General Dominik Loncar was a Kresimirian Army general and one of the Divine Founders of the Republic of Kresimiria. He founded and led the political party Vjetrusa for eleven years until his death in 1963.
Military Career (Vosti Empire)
Loncar joined the semi-independent Kresimirian Army in the Vosti Empire as an officer after graduating from Dubica University with a degree in Military Tactics and History. By 1905, at the age of 26, Loncar became a Captain? . In 1912, Loncar was made a General of the Detached Kresimirian Army of the Vosti Empire.
Kresimirian Unification War
As a high-ranking member of the Kresimirian Army, the 1918 collapse of the Vosti Empire presented Loncar with both challenges and opportunities. Loncar had reportedly been on [?some Vosti leader?]’s list of individuals suspected of harbouring Kresimirian nationalism, before the collapse of the centralised army command. On the 19th of November 1918, Loncar took the initiative to issue the command of cutting? all connections to the collapsed Vosti command, and took control of the whole Kresimirian Army. Loncar was also credited with preventing mass defections of soldiers to the Valkari States, whose military had officially detached themselves from the Empire eight days earlier on the 11th of November, and unrest was growing amongst idle soldiers in the west of Kresimiria.
Under Loncar, the Centralist Faction grew in manpower rapidly, and the Eastern Pravoslavic Confederate soldiers, along with Boscovian soldiers, were under-equipped and under-prepared in comparison.
Loncar ultimately led the Centralist Faction to victory, and in 1921 was one of the six signatories of the 1921 Kresimirian Constitution declaring an independent Republic of Kresimiria.
Retirement and Political Career
Loncar
TODO:
Make Loncar not initially a politician, but the head of the council for defence or whatever its caled
Death
Loncar in 1961, two years before his death
Loncar died in 1963 at the age of 84 in his house in Kostajnica, Viskogorje. He led the Vjetrusa political party up until his death, and so his death resulted in the 1963 special elections.