Stjepan Šiber

Stjepan Šiber (20 August 1938 – 25 August 2016) was a Bosnian Croat brigadier general and politician. After finishing high school in Gradačac, he went to Ljubljana, where he finished schooling at the military academy. Afterward, he became an officer in the Yugoslav People's Army. By 1992, he had become a lieutenant colonel. In 2000, he was elected to the House of Representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Biography Stjepan Šiber was born on 20 August 1938 in Gradačac. His great-grandfather was a German immigrant. Šiber completed primary and secondary school in Gradačac, and then went to Ljubljana in 1957 to attend the Military Academy of the Yugoslav People's Army. After graduating from the academy, he became an active officer in the Yugoslav People's Army. By 1992, he had risen to the rank of colonel. Alija Izetbegović proposed that he become the commander of the ARBiH, but Šiber refused because the Minister of Defense of Bosnia and Herzegovina was Croat. He was appointed deputy commander of the ARBiH.

In December 1993, he was promoted to brigadier general and soon appointed military attaché at the Embassy of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Switzerland in Bern. He was a member of the Republican Party, together with Stjepan Kljuić, a fellow wartime member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Later, he moved to the Patriotic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina and became its vice president.