Vladeta Milićević

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Vladeta Milićević ( Serbian - Cyrillic Владета Милићевић * 1898 in Samaili , county Žičak , District Čačak , † 1970 ) was a Yugoslav police officer and politician . He was an important co-founder of the secret service of the royal Yugoslav government in exile, one of the predecessor organizations of today's Serbian secret service BIA .

Life

Milićević was born in 1898 to the teacher Nedeljko and his wife Darinka. In his youth he left the Serbian army and stayed in France during the First World War . He later worked in the Yugoslav Ministry of the Interior . In September 1923 he was sent to Vienna as a representative of Yugoslavia as permanent representative of Yugoslavia to the International Criminal Police Commission (IKPK), a forerunner of Interpol .

After opposition groups shifted their activities from Yugoslavia into exile in the course of the proclamation of the royal dictatorship by Alexander I in 1929 , Milićević was tasked by the Yugoslav government with monitoring all activities of the Croatian Ustaše movement and the Yugoslav communists . Milićević is said to have been the organizer of the murder of the former Austro-Hungarian officer and then high-ranking Ustaša functionary Stjepan Duić at the end of September 1934 in Karlsbad . Shortly before the fatal assassination attempt by Wlado Tschernosemski on the Yugoslav king on October 9, 1934 in the French port city of Marseille , Milićević warned the government in vain of the increased risk potential. Together with the French authorities, he investigated the perpetrators of the attack.

In 1935 Milićević took over the management of a department in the Ministry of the Interior in Belgrade . From 1937 he was delegated to the Yugoslav embassy in Italy and organized from there, on the secret order of the Yugoslav Prime Minister Milan Stojadinović, between the spring of 1937 and 1939, the repatriation of a large number of Ustas who had stayed in Ustasha training camps in Italy while emigrating . Including the well-known Croatian writer and Ustasha functionary Mile Budak with his family. At the beginning of the war against Yugoslavia , Milićević fled to Great Britain in 1941, where he was Interior Minister of the Yugoslav government in exile in London from August 10, 1943 to July 8, 1944 . After the Allies had urged Alexander's son Peter II to abdicate in 1945, Milićević administered the interests of the former Yugoslav royal family until 1954 .

Milićević later retired from politics and headed the public relations department of the French spa Vichy . In 1959 he published his work The Royal Murder of Marseille , in which he published his findings on the background to the murder of Alexander and tried to refute the often alleged participation of Germany in the assassination. In 1966 he returned from political exile to what was now socialist Yugoslavia .

Awards (selection)

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  • Vladeta Milićević: The regicide of Marseille: The crime and its background . Hohwacht-Verlag, Bad Godesberg 1959 (new edition in Serbian: Ubistvo kralja u Marselju: pozadina jednog zločina . Publisher “Filip Višnjić”, Beograd 2000. ISBN 8673632587 ).

literature

  • Eduard Čalić : Anatomija Versaillesa [The Anatomy of Versailles] (=  Evropska trilogija: Marseille i Drugi svjetski rat [European trilogy: Marseille and the Second World War] . Volume 2 ). Nakladni zavod Matice Hrvatske, Zagreb 1993, ISBN 953-96033-2-3 (Critical lighting and evidence of errors in Milićević's portrayal of himself and his writing).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ BIA website: History, World War II (1941–1945). Retrieved September 21, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Dr. Sušnjara: The situation of the Catholic Church in Croatia . In: Church in Need: Shocking Persecution of Christians at our Gates . Ostpriesthilfe , Königstein / Ts. 1953, p. 85 .
  3. ↑ Ljubo Boban: nekoliko izvještaja o povratku Mile Budaka iz emigracije (1938) [Several reports (V. Milićević) about the return of Mile Budak from exile (1938)] . In: Zbornik Historijskog instituta Slavonije . No. 7-8 . Slavonski Brod 1970, p. 507-523 .
  4. ↑ Marseille regicide -Without Teutons Der Spiegel 16/1959, April 15, 1959. Access January 23, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Milićević, Vladeta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Milicevic, Vladeta; Владета Милићевић (Cyrillic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav police officer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Samaili
DATE OF DEATH 1970