Milutin Garašanin

Milutin Garašanin

Milutin Garašanin ( Serbian - Cyrillic Милутин Гарашанин ; * February 22, 1843 in Belgrade , Principality of Serbia ; † March 5, 1898 in Paris ) was a Serbian politician and diplomat who was Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Serbia from 1884 to 1887.

Life

Garašanin was the son of Ilija Garašanin , who was the ideological creator of Greater Serbia in 1844 with his work Načertanije and between 1852 and 1853 and again from 1861 to 1867 Prime Minister of the Principality of Serbia. He himself completed training as an artillery officer in Metz , France, and took part in the Serbian-Ottoman War between 1876 and 1878 . During this time he was made captain and later promoted to major before retiring from active military service as a colonel .

On November 2, 1880, he was appointed by Prime Minister Milan Piroćanac as Interior Minister in his cabinet and held this ministerial office from March 6, 1882 to October 3, 1883 after Piroćanac had formed the first government of the newly proclaimed Kingdom of Serbia. Garašanin, who was a member of the Serbian Progressive Party, was envoy to Austria-Hungary between 1883 and 1884 and, on his return on February 19, 1884, took over the post of Prime Minister from Nikola Hristić of the Conservative Party himself, which he held until his replacement Jovan Ristić of the Liberal Party on June 13, 1887. At the same time, he initially took over the post of Foreign Minister in his government, before transferring this to Dragutin Franasović on 23 March 1886 as part of a cabinet reshuffle . From March 23, 1886 to June 13, 1887 he himself held the office of Minister of the Interior in his government.

Garašanin was later envoy to France from 1894 to 1895 and then president of the National Assembly between 1895 and 1896.

literature

• G. Hering: Garašanin, Milutin , in: Biographical Lexicon for the History of Southeast Europe . Vol. 2. Munich 1976, p. 13 f.

Web links

• Short biography in rulers.org