Aleksandar Karađorđević (Serbia)
Aleksandar Karađorđević ( Serbian - Cyrillic Александар Карађорђевић , German often Alexander Karadjordjewitsch ; born October 11, 1806 in Topola ; † May 3, 1885 in Temesvár ) was Prince of Serbia from 1842 to 1858 .
Aleksandar Karađorđević (for legibility with German typesetting: Karadjordjevic) was born in Topola in Serbia in 1806 . His father was Đorđe Petrović, called Karađorđe , the leader of the First Serbian Uprising, his mother Jelena, née Jovanović.
After the deposition of princes Miloš and Mihailo Obrenović by the Serbian Skupština , the parliament, Aleksandar Karađorđević became Serbian prince in 1842. During its legislature, the civil code of Serbia was introduced in 1844 (civil law codification), and Prime Minister Ilija Garašanin drafted the Načertanije, Serbia's first political program, which, among other things, included the liberation of the Serbs from Ottoman and Austrian rule and their unification in a joint State provided.
The government of Aleksandars Karađorđević was on the whole unsuccessful because the power in the state was held by the Ustavobranitelji , the so-called constitutional protectors around the ministers Ilija Garašanin and Toma Vučić Perišić . When a political crisis broke out in the Principality of Serbia, Aleksandar Karađorđević was held responsible and had to abdicate in 1858 . Instead of him, the aged Miloš Obrenović was reinstated as prince. Aleksandar Karađorđević himself had to leave Serbia. The extent to which he was connected with the assassins of Prince Mihailo Obrenović in 1868 cannot be clarified, despite all the assumptions. The former prince died in exile in Temesvár in what was then Hungary and now Romania and was buried in Topola near Belgrade.
In 1847 Johann Strauss dedicated the Alexander Quadrille to him .
Alexander's son and temporary heir to the throne, Prince Peter Karađorđević, finally returned to power as Peter I after decades of exile : he became King of Serbia in 1903 and in 1918 the first king of the state that would later be called Yugoslavia .
literature
- Edgar Hösch: Karadjordjević, Alexander . In: Biographical Lexicon on the History of Southeast Europe . Volume 1. Munich 1974, pp. 43-45
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Michael III |
Prince of Serbia 1842–1858 |
Miloš I. |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Karaorđević, Aleksandar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Alexander I of Serbia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Serbian prince |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 11, 1806 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Topola |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 3, 1885 |
| Place of death | Temesvár |