Tomaž Ertl

{{Short description|Slovenian politician}}

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Tomaž Ertl (16 November 1932 – 11 November 2012) was a Slovenian politician. He was the Interior Minister of what was then the Socialist Republic of Slovenia, just prior to its independence from Yugoslavia in 1990. He was also chief of the Slovenian branch of the State Security Administration (UDBA) – the Yugoslav secret police. In 2009 he was controversially awarded the Silver Order of Merit by President Danilo Türk for his role in Operation North.{{cite web |date=2012-11-13 |title=Tomaž Ertl, Last Communist-Era Interior Minister, Dies |url=http://www.sta.si/en/vest.php?s=a&id=1820389 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140531202729/http://www.sta.si/en/vest.php?s=a&id=1820389 |archive-date=2014-05-31 |accessdate=2012-11-15 |publisher=Slovenian Press Agency}}{{cite web|url=http://www.sta.si/en/vest.php?s=a&id=1456111 |title=Fallout from Decoration of Communist Police Head Continues |publisher=Slovenian Press Agency|date=2009-12-04|accessdate=2012-11-15}}{{Dead url|date=April 2024}}{{cite web |date=2010-01-08 |title=The Award Stops Here |url=http://www.sloveniatimes.com/the-award-stops-here |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200709045854/http://www.sloveniatimes.com/the-award-stops-here |archive-date=2020-07-09 |accessdate=2012-11-15 |publisher=The Slovenia Times}}