George of Serbia

Crown Prince Đorđe (1909)

Georg Karađorđević of Serbia ( Serbian - Cyrillic Đorđe Karađorđević ; born August 27, 1887 in Cetinje , Montenegro , † October 17, 1972 in Belgrade , Yugoslavia ) was Crown Prince of Serbia from 1903 to 1909 .

Life

Georg was the eldest son of the future King Peter I of Serbia (1844–1921) and his wife Princess Ljubica "Zorka" of Montenegro (1864–1890), daughter of King Nikola I of Montenegro and Milena Vukotić .

He was brought up at his grandfather's court until his mother's death, and after 1890 he grew up first in Geneva and later in Russia with his aunts, the Grand Duchesses Militza and Anastasia . He studied at the cadet school in Saint Petersburg . After the murder of the Serbian King Aleksandar Obrenović in 1903 by liberal officers under Dragutin Dimitrijević , the Serbian National Assembly, under the influence of Nikola Pašić's Radical People's Party, decided to bring his father back from his exile in Geneva and proclaim him King of Serbia. Now as Crown Prince he returned to his father in Serbia.

Crown Prince Georg belonged to an aggressive group of officers , of which he was the spokesman. During a binge drinking with his friends, he kicked his servant Stevan Kolaković so badly in a fit of anger that he died as a result. In 1909 he was declared insane and his rights to the throne were revoked in favor of his younger brother Alexander (1888–1934).

Prince Georg took part in the Balkan Wars and the First World War, where he was seriously wounded in the battle of Mačkov near Krupanj in 1914. After the death of his father († 1921) and the coronation of Alexander, the enmity between the brothers increased. In 1925 he was admitted to an institution for the mentally ill near Niš . After the death of his brother in 1934, Prince Georg hoped that the new regime would free him. Instead, he went to prison and was liberated by the Germans in 1941. After the Second World War , his family was expelled from the country; the communists only allowed himself to continue living in Belgrade. He later married Radmila Radonjić, but the marriage remained childless.

Prince George of Serbia died on October 17, 1972 in Belgrade and has been in the family crypt of the Karadjordjevic George's Church St. in the Topola buried where his wife is.

literature

He wrote his autobiography “Istina o mom životu” ( The Truth About My Life ).