Dušan Čkrebić (Niš, August 7, 1927), participant in the People's Liberation War and socio-political worker of the Socialist Republic of Serbia and Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. In the period from 1984 to 1986, he performed the duty of the President of the Presidency of the Socialist Republic of Serbia.

 

He attended primary school in Vrnjačka Banja and Kragujevac. He was a student at the Kragujevac Gymnasium and graduated from it in 1947. He participated as a volunteer on the Srem Front, as well as in the final operations for the liberation of Yugoslavia in the Third Kragujevac Battalion of the First Proletarian Strike Brigade. He returned from the war decorated with the Order of Bravery and the rank of officer. He is a reserve major.

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He began his studies in aeronautics in 1947 in the Soviet Union at the Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI) as a scholarship holder of the Yugoslav government. In the summer of 1948, due to the Resolution of the Inform Bureau, he interrupted his studies in Moscow and continued them the same year in the fall in Belgrade. He graduated in June 1953 from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade. His specialty is electrical energy. He worked as a graduate electrical engineer-energy engineer at the Military Aviation Institute in Žarkovo, both on the maintenance of the electric motor drive and on the automatic regulation of wind tunnels in its very beginnings. He was the director of the technical maintenance service in Koksari in Lukavac, B&H. He was elected General Director of the "Soda Factory" in Lukavac in the fall of 1958. He was a UN scholarship holder which allowed him to train and specialize in large-capacity thermal power plants in the RWE (Rhine-Westphalia power plant) system in West Germany. He passed the state exam to become a certified electrical engineer.​

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In the Republic of Serbia, he was the Undersecretary in the Republic Secretariat for Economy, where he was especially involved in the energy development of the Republic of Serbia. He was President of the Serbian Chamber of Commerce. In the period 1974-1978, he was President of the Executive Council, and in the period 1978-1982 President of the Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Serbia.

 

He was elected president of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Serbia from 1982-1984, and President of the Presidency of the Socialist Republic of Serbia 1984-1986. He was a member of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (SKJ) from 1982 to 1990, and member of the Presidency of the Central Committee of the SKJ from 1982 to 1984 and from 1986 to June 1990. After the change of government in Serbia, in the fall of 1987 he was a member of the Presidency of the Central Committee of the SKJ.