Hakija Hadžić

Hakija Hadžić (Хакија Хаџић) (1883 — 1953) was Herzegovinian Muslim politician of Croatian ethnicity. Hadžić belonged to a group of Muslim politicians who held pro-Croatian position in the interwar period.

Interwar period
Hadžić was a politician who had the strongest influence on Muslim population of Yugoslavia before the Second World War. Before 1938 elections Hadžić established new political party (Croatian Muslim Peasant Party) which had received very modest support at the elections.

Second World War
As personal friend of Ante Pavelić, he promoted Ustaša politics in regions of Herzegovina and Bosnia. Hadžić thanked to Pavelić for establishment of NDH, while Pavelić appointed Hadžić as his Commissioner for Bosnia. Hadžić was Muslim Ustaša with highest rank in Sarajevo. Alija Nametak described Hadžić as one of extreme Croats, to distinguish them from people for whom their Croatian ethnic identity was less emphatic.

Hadžić claimed that he challenged Mehmed Spaho to a duel, while both of them were in Vienna, but Spaho refused to appear. Hadžić denounced Džafer Kulenović too, although he also had a prominent position in the NDH.