Dušan Simović

Simović (left) welcomes guests as Prime Minister of the Yugoslav government in exile (London, 1942)

Dušan T. Simović ( Serbian - Cyrillic Душан Т. Симовић ; born October 28, 1882 in Belgrade , † August 26, 1962 in Belgrade) was a Yugoslav general and politician.

Simović was a graduate of the Belgrade Military Academy and served in the First World War with the rank of major . On March 27, 1941, he led a coup d'état in which the Cvetković - Maček government was overthrown because it had signed to join the Tripartite Pact . Prince Paul then had to flee to Greece while 17-year-old Peter II ascended the throne. Simović became Prime Minister, his government fled to Great Britain in April 1941 after the country was occupied by German troops, where he continued to serve as Prime Minister of the government-in-exile until January 11, 1942. His successor in this office was Slobodan Jovanović . In 1946 Simović appeared as a witness in the trial of Dragoljub Draža Mihailović , who was shot in Belgrade on July 18, 1946. Simović spent the rest of his life in Belgrade.

literature

• Harris M. Lentz III. (Ed.): Encyclopedia of heads of states and governments 1900 through 1945 . 1999, ISBN 0-7864-0500-7 , pp. 479 .
• Holm Sundhaussen: Simović, Dušan T. In: Biographical Lexicon on the History of Southeast Europe . Volume 4. Munich 1981, p. 126 f.

Web links

• Newspaper article about Dušan Simović in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ THE TRIAL OF DRAGOLJUB-DRAZA MIHAILOVIC - STENOGRAPHIC RECORD AND DOCUMENTS (Belgrade), 1946, p. 487