Franc Rozman , nom de guerre Stane (Slovene convention: Franc Rozman – Stane ) or Stane Mlinar (27 March 1911 – 7 November 1944), was a Slovene Partisan commander in World War II .
13-838: (Redirected from Rožman ) Rozman is a both a given name and surname. Notable people with the surname include: Franc Rozman ( nom de guerre Stane), (1911–1944), Slovenian Yugoslav Partisan of World War II Gregorij Rožman (1883–1959), Bishop of Ljubljana Ivana Rožman (born 1989), Macedonian athlete Matjaž Rozman (born 1987), Slovenian soccer player Rok Rozman (born 1988), Slovenian rower Levy Rozman (born 1995), known online as GothamChess , American chess coach and chess International Master Rozman Jusoh (1971–1996), Malaysian drug trafficker See also [ edit ] All pages with titles containing Rozman Rosman (disambiguation) Rossmann (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
26-780: A military career, but his application to the military school was rejected. In spring 1932, he did his military service in the Royal Yugoslav army. In 1935, after the Italian invasion of Ethiopia , Rozman tried unsuccessfully to join the Ethiopian forces fighting the Italian invaders. Soon after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War , he decided to travel to Spain. Rozman was among the first Yugoslav volunteers in Spain, where he, on 1 October 1936 joined
39-895: A military instructor with the High Command of the Slovene partisan forces. He was given the task of setting up the Styrian Battalion ( Štajerski bataljon ), which would consist of the partisan troops, the Revirje and the Savinja companies ( Revirske in Savinjske čete ), which were active in Styria in the autumn of 1941. He participated in the attack on Šoštanj and later in the Battle of Čreta . The Germans repeatedly tried to liquidate Rozman, setting many ambushes. In
52-605: A younger brother, Martin. At the age of three, Rozman's father died on the Eastern Front , where he fought as a soldier in the Austro-Hungarian Army . Rozman had a poor and hard childhood. His sisters Marjeta and Terezija were sent to an orphanage, while Franc and his brother Martin remained in Pirniče. At the age of 15, he worked in a tavern and then trained as an apprentice baker. As a young boy he had great enthusiasm for
65-635: Is a river in central Spain . It flows north to south and passes east of Madrid where the El Atazar Dam is built on a tributary, the Lozoya River . It flows into the river Tagus in Aranjuez . The Manzanares is a tributary of the Jarama. The Jarama was the scene of fierce fighting in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War . Nationalist forces crossed the river in an attempt to cut the main road from Madrid to
78-636: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Franc Rozman Franc Rozman was born in the Carniolan village of Spodnje Pirniče near Ljubljana , in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (now in Slovenia) in a Slovene working-class family. His father Franc Rozman was a railway track-worker, while his mother Marjana (née Stare) was a housewife. He was the third of four children, with two elder sisters, Marjeta and Terezija, and
91-647: The International Brigades . In November 1936 he became a member of the Spanish Communist Party. In Jarama he completed non commissioned officers' school, became a lieutenant and a commander of a company, then captain and commander of a battalion. His comrades in arms remembered him as an energetic and earnest person. After the Spanish Civil War, he was imprisoned in France. He became a member of
104-618: The Republican capital at Valencia . Nationalist forces led by Spanish Legionnaires and Moroccan soldiers ( Regulares ) of the Army of Africa were confronted by forces from the Republic including the 15th International Brigade . The song Jarama Valley , with lyrics referencing the battle, became popular among the Republican battalions. El Jarama is a 1955 novel by Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio about
117-442: The surname Rozman . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rozman&oldid=1225701158 " Categories : Surnames Slovene-language surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
130-503: The April 1942 Rozman became the commander of a Slovene partisan brigade, established on 5 April 1942 at Kremenik in Lower Carniola , and numbering more than 300 fighters. Measured by composition, organization, training, and fighting power, this was the most powerful Slovene partisan unit at that time. On 13 July 1943, he became a commander of the High Command of the Slovene partisan army with
143-694: The Yugoslav Communist Party in 1939. In April 1941 he was imprisoned and sentenced to forced labor in Germany. In July the same year he fled Germany and returned to Yugoslavia. For a while, Rozman lived with an activist of the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People . In early December 1941, he visited his younger brother, Martin, after which he joined the Slovene partisan resistance . Soon he became
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#1733084645867156-576: The rank of lieutenant general ( generallajtnant ), which he held up to his death. Rozman died on 7 November 1944, aged 33, in White Carniola as a consequence of a serious wound received while testing newly arrived PIAT weapons sent to the partisans by their British Allies . There were some rumors that he was killed by sabotage by the Chetnik military authorities or at the behest of Partisan commander Arso Jovanović , but they have never been proven. He
169-582: Was proclaimed a People's Hero of Yugoslavia four days later, on 11 November 1944. "Commander Stane", as he was nicknamed by the partisan fighters, was one of the most prominent figures of the Yugoslav front of the Second World War. His legacy is controversial and questions have been raised about his involvement in wartime liquidations of civilians. His legacy includes the following: Jarama Jarama ( Spanish pronunciation: [xaˈɾama] )
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