Ivan Werner

{{Short description|Croatian politician (1887–1944)}}

{{Infobox Mayor

| name = Ivan Werner

| image = Ivan Werner.jpg

| office = 28th Mayor of Zagreb

| birth_date = {{birth date|1887|6|18|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Zagreb, Austria-Hungary

| death_date = {{death date and age|1944|6|26|1887|6|18|df=yes}}

| death_place = Zagreb, Independent State of Croatia

| term_start = 1941

| term_end = 1944

| predecessor = Jozo Dumančić

| successor = Eugen Starešinić

| party = Ustaše (UHRO)

}}

Ivan Werner (18 June 1887 – 26 June 1944) was a Croatian politician in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the Independent State of Croatia who served as the mayor ({{lang|hr|gradonačelnik}}) of Zagreb from 1941 to 1944.{{cite web|url=http://www.vjesnik.hr/pdf/2001%5C12%5C09%5C25A25.PDF |title=U ozračju svjetla hanukije |first=Vesna |last=Kusin |date=December 9, 2001 |work=Vjesnik |language=Croatian |format=PDF |accessdate=2010-04-18 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20011214005333/http://www.vjesnik.hr/pdf/2001/12/09/25A25.PDF |archivedate=December 14, 2001 }}{{cite web | url=http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/education/lesson_plans/pdf/zagreb1.pdf | title=The Synagogue of Zagreb, 1867-1942 | work=The Synagogue and Zagreb | year=2001 | first=Snješka | last=Knežević | publisher=Jewish Community of Zagreb | pages=42–46 | format=PDF | accessdate=2010-04-18 | archive-date=2016-03-03 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303223839/http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/education/lesson_plans/pdf/zagreb1.pdf | url-status=dead }} A member of the fascist Ustaše party, Werner is best known for ordering the demolition of the Zagreb Synagogue in 1941 and for collaborating and cooperating with the Nazis during the Holocaust.{{cite web | url=http://www.zagreb.hr/default.aspx?id=15573 | title=Zagrebački gradonačelnici | last=Milčec | first=Zvonimir | work=Zagreb.hr | publisher=City of Zagreb | language=Croatian | accessdate=2010-04-19 | archive-date=2012-03-23 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120323122245/http://www.zagreb.hr/default.aspx?id=15573 | url-status=dead }}

A butcher by trade, Werner was an expert on food processing and logistics.Bernd Jürgen Fischer, Balkan strongmen: dictators and authoritarian rulers of South Eastern Europe. Purdue University Press, 2007. (p. 218) Werner died on June 26, 1944, and is buried in Mirogoj Cemetery.[http://www.gradskagroblja.hr/Trazilica/MapPreview.aspx?CemeteryID=1&Field=3&DeptID=1&PersonID=37696 Ivan Werner at Gradsko groblje] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718135118/http://www.gradskagroblja.hr/Trazilica/MapPreview.aspx?CemeteryID=1&Field=3&DeptID=1&PersonID=37696 |date=2011-07-18 }}