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Gojko Šušak (; 16 March 1945 – 3 May 1998) was a Croatian politician who held the post of defence minister from 1991 to 1998. A Bosnian Croat emigrant who had moved from SFR Yugoslavia to Canada in 1969, Šušak rose to prominence within the Croatian diaspora in North America in the following decades, eventually becoming a close friend and associate to Franjo Tuđman, leader of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), a Croatian nationalist party seeking Croatia's independence from Yugoslavia. In 1990, he returned to Croatia. After Tuđman became President of Croatia in 1991, Šušak was appointed defence minister, an office he held throughout the Yugoslav Wars. He played a crucial role in Croatia's involvement in the Bosnian War, supporting the self-proclaimed Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia statelet during the 1992–95 Croat–Bosniak War, and later helped broker the 1995 Dayton Agreement. During his term in office he forged close contacts with the United States. ==Early life== Šušak was born on 16 March 1945 in Široki Brijeg, in the Croat-dominated part of the Herzegovina region in present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was the sixth child of Ante and Stana Šušak. According to some accounts, his father and brother, who were both Ustaše officers, disappeared two months after his birth.〔("The Communist Partisans led by Tito are said to have killed his father, an Ustashe officer, three months later and burned the Susak house to the ground. An elder brother was also an Ustashe officer." ), nytimes.com, 5 May 1998; accessed 20 July 2015.〕 According to the Croatian Ministry of Defence, Šušak's family home was torched by the Yugoslav Partisans in retribution following the war; however some Croatian journalists have questioned if this ever happened. In 1967 Šušak moved to Rijeka, where he studied physics and mathematics at a teacher's college. Šušak left Yugoslavia and his family in 1968, moving to Austria to find work and in order to evade compulsory military service in the Yugoslav People's Army. In April 1969, he moved on to Canada, where two of his brothers had previously emigrated. There he worked in construction and did odd jobs. His political opponents in the 1990s mockingly called him "Pizza Man", since he owned and ran a pizzeria for some time.〔(Profile ), heraldscotland.com; accessed 14 April 2015.〕 In 1973, he married another Croatian immigrant, Đurđica Gojmerac, a social worker. They had two daughters, Katarina and Jelena, and a son, Tomislav, and lived in Ottawa. Šušak was one of the most active Croat political immigrants in Canada and was involved with organising Croat schools, football clubs and church events. He assisted in opening the Croatian studies chair at the University of Waterloo in 1988. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gojko Šušak」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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