About: Marko Koprtla

Marko Koprtla (24 May 1929 – 4 October 1997) was a politician born in Gradište, a village near Županja. He was trained as a car mechanic in Vukovar before enroling in a high school and taking a job of a metal worker until 1955. He attended a higher political school in Belgrade in 1962. Koprtla was a member of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (SKJ) and the League of Communists of Croatia posted to various functions in the municipalities of Vinkovci and Vukovar. He became the president of the municipal assembly of Vukovar in 1961 and held that post until 1966. Between 1963 and 1965 he was a member of the Parliament of Yugoslavia. In 1965, Koprtla was appointed to the Central Committee of the SKH as the president of its commission for social and economic affairs. In 1968, he became the