Puniša Račić

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Puniša Račić (around 1925)

Puniša Račić ( Serbian - Cyrillic Пуниша Рачић ; * July 12, 1886 in Slatina zu Andrijevica , Principality of Montenegro ; † October 15, 1944 in Belgrade , Serbia ) was a Chetnik leader, Yugoslav politician of the Radical People's Party , member of parliament and political murderer .

Life

Chetnik leader

Puniša Račić as Chetnik leader (1927)

Puniša Račić headed the paramilitary Udruženje srpskih četnika " Petar Mrkonjić " za kralja i otadžbinu (Association of the Serbian Chetniks "Petar Mrkonjić" for King and Fatherland), which pursued a Greater Serbian ideology until 1928 . This emerged in July 1925 from the merger of two Chetnik organizations. He also led the Serbian National Youth ( Srpska nacionalna omladina ), SRNAO for short. The SRNAO was a mixture of youth organization and party militia of the Radical People's Party, which, especially in the early 1920s , acted in unity with the nationalist to fascist Organization of Yugoslav Nationalists ( Organizacija Jugoslavenskih Nacionalista ), ORJUNA for short.

MP and assassin

Račić was elected to the Yugoslav parliament in September 1927 as a representative of the People's Radical Party .

Račić during the assassination attempt on Stjepan Radić and the other Croatian MPs

In the parliamentary session on June 20, 1928, Račić shot five MPs from the Croatian Peasant Party . He killed the Croatian MPs Pavle Radić and Đuro Basariček and injured Ivan Pernar , Ivan Granđa and the party leader Stjepan Radić . Radić died on August 8, 1928 as a result of the assassination attempt.

The murder of the democratic people's and peasant leader Radić, popular with the Croatians, was followed by a state crisis. The Yugoslav King Alexander I took this as an opportunity to carry out a coup on January 6, 1929 . He banned the Croatian national symbols , dissolved all political parties and parliament, suspended the 1921 constitution and proclaimed a royal dictatorship . Then he proclaimed a new constitution and renamed the country the Kingdom of Yugoslavia .

death

After the German Wehrmacht's Balkan campaign , Račić lived in the suburbs of Belgrade , in Serbia , which was under German military administration . During the Battle of Belgrade in 1944 , Račić was sentenced to death by the communist Tito partisans and shot.

family

Račić's son, the artillery captain Dragoslav Račić (1905–1945), became a Chetnik leader after the Balkan campaign (1941) . Not least because of his flowing beard and his peasant clothes, he represented the archetype of a Serbian Chetnik.

source

  • Zvonimir Kulundžić: Atentat na Stjepana Radića . [Assassination attempt on Stjepan Radić] (=  Biblioteka "Vremeplov" ). Stvarnost, 1967.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christian Axboe Nielsen: Making Yugoslavs: Identity in King Aleksandar's Yugoslavia (=  G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series ). University of Toronto Press, 2014, ISBN 978-1-4426-2750-5 , pp. 58 u. 274 , footnote 107 .
  2. ↑ Fikreta Jelić-Butić: Četnici u Hrvatskoj: 1941–1945 (=  Plava biblioteka ). Globus, 1986, p. 13 .
  3. ^ Rory Yeomans : ORJUNA . In: Cyprian Blamires (Ed.): World Fascism: A Historical Encyclopedia . Volume 1. ABC-Clio Inc, 2006, p. 745 .
  4. ^ Rolf Wörsdörfer: Hotspot Adria 1915–1955: Construction and articulation of the national in the Italian-Yugoslav border area . Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh GmbH & Co KG, Paderborn 2004, ISBN 978-3-506-70144-2 , p. 189 .
  5. ^ Jozo Tomasevich: The Chetniks: War and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941-1945 . Stanford University Press, Stanford 1975, ISBN 0-8047-0857-6 , pp. 119 .
  6. ↑ Zvonimir Kulundzic: Atentat na Stjepana Radića . [Assassination attempt on Stjepan Radić] (=  Biblioteka "Vremeplov" ). Stvarnost, 1967, p. 426-523 .
personal data
SURNAME Račić, Puniša
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav politician and political assassin
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Slatina, today in Andrijevica, Montenegro
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1944
Place of death Belgrade , Serbia