Vojislav Tankosić

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Vojislav Tankosić as Major in the Serbian Army (1914)

Vojislav Tankosić ( Serbian - Cyrillic Војислав Танкосић , Germanized Tankositsch ; born October 16, 1881 in Ruklada ; †  November 2, 1915 in Trstenik , Kingdom of Serbia ) was a Serbian Chetnik , army officer and leading member of the nationalist-terrorist secret society Black Hand .

Life

Tankosić was involved in the May coup ( Мајски преврат ) 1903, in which the Serbian King Aleksandar Obrenović was murdered. During the First World War he led a volunteer division. In Veliki Popović he was mortally wounded.

Web links

Commons : Vojislav Tankosić  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
  • Entente Freemasonry and World War I (PDF; 19.0 MB), by Karl Heise, Third Edition, Ernst Finckh Verlag, Basel 1920, pages 76, 80, 106, 251
  • The War Guilt Question (PDF; 53.5 MB), monthly for international enlightenment, published by the Central Office for Research into the Causes of War; Editor: Alfred von Wegerer, Years I and II, Berlin 1925, page 81

Individual evidence

  1. Differing personal information: Vojislav Tankosić (1880–1915) on the website riznicasrpska.net.
  2. Belgrade Vojislav Tankositsch Cemetery
  3. See Hubert Wetzel: Der helpless Richter , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 28, 2014, p. VZ9.