Zdravko Ponoš

Samstag, 03. November 1962

Zdravko Ponoš (Serbian Cyrillic: Здравко Понош; born 3 November 1962) is a Serbian politician, former diplomat and retired general. Born in Golubić, a village near Knin, he later moved to Zagreb, where he spent most of his youth and obtained a degree in electronics engineering. Ponoš moved to Serbia in 1986, where he began his military career. Two years later, he obtained a job at the Department of Development and Equipment in Belgrade, where he worked until 2002. Ponoš then acquired a job at the defense ministry, where he served as an advisor to multiple ministers including future president Boris Tadić. In 2005, he was promoted to the rank of major general, after serving as a colonel since 2000, and also became a deputy chief of the General Army. A year later however, Tadić promoted him t