predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place nationality profession office birth_date term_start spouse image article_title term_end name alma_mater
stjepan srkulj stjepan srkulj 1 march 1934 zagreb , austria-hungary zagreb , kingdom of yugoslavia croatian architect mayor of zagreb 21 august 1871 1920 berta nee pick vjekoslav jpg heinzel -lrb- rudolf spiegler , 1923 -rrb- . vjekoslav heinzel
 1928 vjekoslav heinzel technische hochschule graz university of stuttgart
vjekoslav heinzel

vjekoslav heinzel -lrb- ; 21 august 1871 -- 1 march 1934 -rrb- was the mayor of zagreb from 1920 to 1928 .
he is best remembered for great development projects of the 1920s that significantly expanded the city .
heinzel was born into an entrepreneurial family in zagreb , and was sent to graz and stuttgart to become an architect , graduating in 1893 .
licensed for standalone work as an architect in 1896 , he designed numerous buildings in zagreb .
in 1910 , he became a city councillor and in 1912 , he became the head of the local chamber of trade and crafts .
he same year he ceased his professional activities and traveled across europe , before he returned and organized the food supply of zagreb during world war i. heinzel was also an early automobilist , who along with ferdinand budicki drove the first car in zagreb , and was one of the founders of the croatian automobile club in 1906 .
he participated in many early car races , including winning the first race for the championship of the kingdom of croatia-slavonia in 1912 .
during the kingdom of serbs , croats and slovenes , heinzel was first elected mayor in 1920 and served until the august 1921 , when the city administration was temporarily disbanded .
in 1922 , he was elected as a member of the croatian bloc .
in 1926 and 1927 he had a falling out with the party of rights and the croatian peasant party , but was re-elected in the subsequent election .
his administration organized the construction of large sections of today 's peščenica , trnje , trešnjevka , maksimir and other city neighborhoods .
his contributions included the construction and expansion of numerous hospitals , the beginning of the dolac market , and the reconstruction of the laščinska road , later sajmišna , and today the vjekoslav heinzel avenue , a prominent north-south avenue in the eastern part of the city that starts at the eugen kvaternik square and divides trnje and peščenica .
during heinzel 's term as mayor , zagreb got its first 0.35 kw radio transmitter on 15 june 1926 .
on 1 april the same year , the city installed its first automatic switchboard , with the capacity of 7,000 telephone subscribers .
heinzel 's efforts came at a considerable cost , however , as the city had to take out a loan of 250 million yugoslav dinars , a topic of much criticism at the time .
