Štefan Tiso

Štefan Tiso
Štefan Tiso
	Štefan Tiso in 1944.
Prime Minister of the First Slovak Republic
	In office; September 5, 1944 – April 4, 1945
President	Jozef Tiso
Preceded by	Vojtech Tuka
Succeeded by	Office abolished
Foreign Minister of the First Slovak Republic
	In office; September 5, 1944 – April 4, 1945
Preceded by	Vojtech Tuka
Succeeded by	Office abolished
Minister of Justice of the First Slovak Republic
	In office; September 5, 1944 – April 4, 1945
Preceded by	Gejza Fritz
Succeeded by	Office abolished
Personal details
Born	October 18, 1897; Nagybiccse, Trencsén County, Kingdom of Hungary; (now Bytča, Slovakia)
Died	March 28, 1959 (aged 61); Mírov, Czechoslovakia; (now Mírov, Czech Republic)
Nationality	Slovak
Political party	Slovak People's Party
Occupation	Politician, lawyer

Štefan Tiso (October 18, 1897 – March 28, 1959) was a lawyer and president of the Supreme Court of the 1939–1945 Slovak Republic which was a puppet state of Nazi Germany. He was a cousin of Josef Tiso, the president of the Republic.

He became prime minister (replacing Vojtech Tuka), Foreign Minister (replacing also Vojtech Tuka) and minister of Justice (replacing Gejza Fritz) of the Slovak Republic. In the latter position in 1944 he pressed for death sentences against leaders of the pro-allied Slovak National Council.^{[citation needed]} Tiso also emphasized his desire to see a Final Solution to the Jewish Question in Slovakia, in discussions with Josef Witiska [de; fr; sv], the commander of Einsatzgruppe H. He believed that the uprising was the work of Judeo-Bolshevik plotters and considered Jews "enemies of the state".^[1]

In a postwar trial, Štefan Tiso was given a life sentence. He died in prison in Mírov, Czechoslovakia.

References

^ Hradská, Katarína (1996). "Vorgeschichte der slowakischen Transporte nach Theresienstadt" [The History of Slovak Transports to Theresienstadt]. Theresienstädter Studien und Dokumente (in German) (3): 89. CEEOL 274407.