Josip Broz Tito: Who are his children and grandchildren – BBC News in Serbian

At least five women, three official marriages, two children and six grandchildren.

That, in short, were direct descendants, successors and wives, and, narrowly, the family of life of the Yugoslav President Joseph Broz Tito, the communist they loved in the west.

Although he was repeatedly married and in many years of romantic relationships, he had only two sons – the late Žarko, from the first marriage with Pelagija Belusovo, and Mouse with the Nedan wife Hero Has.

The oldest Žarkov’s son, the former Member of the Serbian Parliament and Member of the SS Main Board, appointed Dedi – Josip Joško Broz passed away 3. June 2025.

Another half-sister, cardiopologist and peace activist, Svetlana Broz deceased 22. Marta of the same year.

A slightly complicated family tree of Brozova can be a consequence of his turbulent biography.

The leader of the resistance movement in the second world and founder of non-aligned life, led unconventional life, from revolutionary to Bonvivan, says Boris Rašeta, Zagreb journalist and the author of several books on the Yugoslav Stateman.

Still, in love he knew it was conservative, he says, quoting his close associates.

« Tito was married only for the party, for communism.

« He dedicated to ambition, there he achieved everything he could and went to his size, » says Rashet for the BBC in Serbian.

Three marriages and two unmarried wife

Named Josif Brozovic28-year-old Tito first stopped on a crazy stone 7. September 1920.

In the Soviet city of Omska, he married Pelagia BelousIn Russian, only 16 years old, which he met in 1917.

The Soviet Union left immediately after the wedding and moved to Yugoslavia, where the Pelagia remains until Tito’s arrest and closure in 1928. in Zagreb Prison of Lepoglava, after the expansion of communist propaganda and illegal arms holding.

Back to the Soviet Union leads Sina Žarka, born four years earlier, previously lost by three children.

« And then the marriage lasts, the pellaga raises Žarka in Russia, negligent, and he ends up in the Correctional House and is a member of juvenile delinquent gangs, » says Raseta.

Broz and Pelagia divorced in 1936.

« They were together for more than 15 years, for today’s civil concepts in Europe, the world and us, it is a very long marriage, » said Zagreb journalist.

Soon after he came out of his first marriage, he stepped into a new one, with twenty years younger Elz Johan KenigCode name Lucija Bauer, in Moscow, who took care of the guargine.

Ana, as they still called her, was scheduled in 1937. Under the accusation of spy, while Tito « signs the recognition that he was not awake enough » in connection, adds Raseta.

In the same year, Broz in Paris, in the recruitment center for Spanish volunteers, meets the communist Hertu hashis new partner, with whom he never married, and which in 1941. will give birth to Aleksandar.

In May of the same year, Tito comes to Belgrade to raise an uprising against the rushing fascism and starting a romantic connection with far younger partisan Davorjanka Paunović Zdenka, leaving herth with a « stomach to the teeth, » the story of the rash.

« He was unstolished there, » he added.

Davorjanka Paunović Zdenka has passed away from Tuberculosis in 1946, and was buried in the white courtyard.

Then the 54-year-old Broz was then asking her to return from Herta to return to him, what she allegedly responded to him that « Kneel in front of a man only once in life ».

The last Tito’s marriage was concluded in 1952. With Jovanko BrozBudisavljevic born, who will stay for the rest of his life with.

Žarko and Mišo

Tito and Pelagia in November 1920 lost the first baby, for the next years he would get Zerka Zlatica and son Hinka, who also passed away as children.

Their fourth child, Žarko Broz He was born in 1924. in place a great trinity in today’s Croatia, while childhood and early Mladost spent in Moscow.

After the outbreak of the second world, he approached Soviet Red Army and as an officer was twice decorated.

Problematic behavior and mischievous spirit from younger days, he passed further through (love) life – he married three times and received four children.

He lived from Soviet military pension to Dedinje and passed away in 1995. in Belgrade.

Aleksandar Mišo BrozOther Tito’s son from the connection with the Illegak Hero Has, was born in 1941. in Zagreb, where he still lives today.

« When they brought me to Belgrade at the first meeting with Father (1945), I wasn’t sure it was my dad. For each case I called him, ‘Listen to you’, » he spoke This retired Croatian diplomat.

He was considered « Good Child », graduated from the Faculty of Law and marriage with Mira Broz, born Kosinz, has a daughter Aleksandra Sasha and Sina Andrej.

Grandchildren – from Selebrity to a modest life

Today’s granddaughter today live in Zagreb and Belgrade, « they have no problems, » and some of them are famous personalities.

« Everyone has the same brose eyes, » says Boris Rashet.

Aleksandra Saša Broz is a theater director whose plays of the audience can be viewed in Croatia and abroad.

« Her daughter Sarah recently changed her last name in Has, that they don’t identify her with family heritage, » said Raseta.

Unlike sister, which is a public figure, her brother Andrej He lives withdrawn in Zagreb, « like every regular Croat », and in free time grows vegetables, Transfers time.

From Tito’s granddaughters and jarks, four children among the living are no longer Josip Joško Brozprobably a media most specified descendant of the Yugoslav president, and Svetlana Brozactivist and author of the book « Good people in time of evil ».

Two who are still living are Zlatica and Edward Broz.

Edward Broz is due to participation in the 1992 Traffic Accident. years in Zemun, where his friend was killed – after almost three decades convicted to eight months in prison, in absentia.

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