Luko Bona
Count Luko de Bona (Dubrovnik, March 13, 1863 – Dubrovnik, February 14, 1940), was a Croatian politician and a mayor of Dubrovnik. [1]
Biography
He received his primary and secondary education in Dubrovnik, and then completed law in Vienna. Already in 1889 he was politically active. He participated in writing a brochure for his fellow citizens and co-signed the election proclamation of the Serbian Party in Dubrovnik on the occasion of the elections for the National Assembly in Zadar. He belonged to the so-called circle. He worked as a notary public in Orebić (1903-1905) and Dubrovnik (before 1914 and after the war). After a speech at a rally at the Bond Theater, in 1912, in which he enthusiastically spoke about the victories of Serbian and Montenegrin weapons in the Balkan War, he was suspended from the notary service for five months. In the same year he was a member of the Municipal Council and the president of the Dubrovnik municipality.
Due to his anti-Austrian appearances before World War I, he was imprisoned in the Šibenik prison, and then confined with his family to Wolfsegg in Upper Austria. He was released in 1917. He was among the organizers of the People's Army. From 1919 to 1921 he was one of the main actors of the so-called millionaire scandals and embezzlement around Dubrovnik's Serbian Central Bank on the coast (about which, with his support, the book Dubrovnik Millionaire Affair was published, Dubrovnik, 1921). He was acquitted for lack of evidence.
He was a member of the Radical Party and from 1926 to 1927 was president of its District Committee in Dubrovnik. He excelled in many public projects; he was one of the founders and the vice-president of the Society for the Beautification and Improvement of Orebić (1904), co-founder of the Serbian Gymnastics Society Dušan Silni in Dubrovnik (1907-1908), one of the founders of DD električni tramvaj Gruž-Dubrovnik (1909-1910), president of the Dubrovnik Civil Council of Dubrovnik Paraboat Shipping (1918-1920), co-founder and president of the Dub (since 1921), and president of the football club GOŠK (1922-1925). His correspondence is kept in the State Archives in Dubrovnik. When Sreski was in Ston on 30 November 1934 passed a decision on the termination of serf relations, as the previous owner, the villagers of Imotice paid him 15,239.57 dinars.