Aleksa Todorović

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Aleksa Todorović ( Serbian - Cyrillic Алекса Тодоровић ; * 1899 in Negrišori , Oblast Dragačevo near Čačak , Kingdom of Serbia ; † 1990 ) was a Serbian Orthodox archpriest and as a national chaplain of the fascist Serbian Volunteer Corps (SFK) a collaborator with Germany .

Todorović was ordained a priest in 1925 and served as pastor in Arilje ( Okrug Zlatibor ). In addition to Nikolaj Velimirović (1881–1956) and Dimitrije Najdanović (1897–1986), Todorović was a leader of the Serbian Orthodox lay movement of the Bogomoljci (Prayer to God) and at times the editor of their publication Hrišćanska Zajednica (Christian Community). Todorović was closely associated with the fascist ZBOR party founded by Dimitrije Ljotić . After Ljotić founded the party's armed arm, the Serbian Volunteer Corps, in 1941, Todorović became the military chaplain and spiritual leader of the unit.

After the collapse of the Serbian vassal state in 1944, Todorović went into political exile. Among other things, he worked on the Serbian émigré newspaper Iskra (Der Funke), which was published in Munich at the time and was published by former leaders of the ZBOR party and the SFK. On the initiative of Bishop Velimirović, Todorović founded the Serbian-language Munich publisher Svečanik . The publishing house was run by Dimitrije Najdanović and the historian and writer Đoko Slijepčevič (1907-1993), both of whom were Ljotić's employees and functionaries in the Serbian collaborationist government of Milan Nedić . From 1950 to 1974 Todorović took over the priestly duties of the Serbian Orthodox community in Munich. He was under the protection of the Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church German (1899-1991).

literature

  • Velibor V. Džomić: Србска црква: Љотић и љотићевци [The Serbian Church: Ljotić and the Ljotićevci] . Štampar Makarije, 2009.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Velibor V. Džomić: Србска црква: Љотић и љотићевци [The Serbian Church: Ljotić and the Ljotićevci] . Štampar Makarije, 2009, p. 244 .
  2. ^ Jovan Byford: Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović: 'Lackey of the Germans' or 'Victim of Fascism'? In: Sabrina Ramet, Olga Listhaug (Ed.): Serbia and the Serbs in World War Two . Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, ISBN 978-0-230-34781-6 , pp. 139 .
  3. ↑ Otac Mitrofan Hilandarac. August 7, 2011, accessed August 13, 2017 .
  4. ^ Jovan Byford: From "traitor" to "saint": Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović in Serbian public memory . Ed .: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (=  Analysis of current trends in antisemitism . Volume 22 ). 2004, p. 12 .
  5. ↑ vesti.sr: Svedok održanja vere pravoslavne. December 12, 2011, accessed August 14, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Klaus Buchenau: Orthodoxy and Catholicism in Yugoslavia 1945–1991: A Serbian-Croatian comparison . Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-447-04847-6 , p. 296 .
personal data
SURNAME Todorović, Aleksa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Тодоровић, Алекса (Serbian-Cyrillic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION orthodox military chaplain
DATE OF BIRTH 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Negrišori , Dragačevo Oblast near Čačak , Kingdom of Serbia
DATE OF DEATH 1990