Marko Natlačen

Marko Natlačen (April 24, 1886 – October 13, 1942) was a Slovenian politician and jurist, who also served as the last ban (governor) of the Drava Banovina in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

A day after the Italians annexed the Province of Ljubljana to Italy, Natlačen and a number of other Slovene politicians wrote a letter to Mussolini, congratulating him on the act.

[2] Reflecting his importance to the collaborationist cause, the Fascist authorities in retaliation for Natlačen shot 24 Slovene hostages, suspected supporters of the Liberation Front.

[2] Natlačen published the anti-Serb xenophobic poem Srbe na vrbe (Hang the Serbs on the Willow Trees) in the Ljubljana newspaper Slovenec on July 27, 1914, the day before Austria-Hungary declared war against the Kingdom of Serbia.

Mayor Princes cancelled the planned ceremony after SDS MP Eva Irgl, NSi President and Finance Minister Andrej Bajuk withdrew their participation in the unveiling of the monument.

Marko Natlačen (1939)
Marko Natlačen, meeting with Mussolini in Rome, June 8, 1941 (Natlačen, with mustache is to the right of Fascist Commissar of Ljubljana Province, Emilio Grazioli )