Jozef Tiso

Jozef Tiso was a Roman Catholic priest and Nazi collaborator who governed Slovakia from 1939 to 1945, a satellite state of Nazi Germany. Jozef Tiso graduated in 1910 from the Pasmaneum college in Vienna as a theologian. During World War I, Tiso served as a military chaplain. Tiso was the secretary of the local bishop at the seminary of divinity at Nitra during 1921 to 1924. In 1924, he became the seminary's dean and parish priest of the town of Bánovce nad Bebravou from 1924 to 1945, even when he was president of Slovakia.