Đura Dokić

Đura L. Dokić
Đura Dokić in WW1
Minister of Transportation of the Government of National Salvation
In office
7 October 1941 – 10 November 1942
Preceded byNone
Succeeded byOffice abolished
Personal details
Born21 December 1873
Užice, Principality of Serbia
Died17 July 1946 (aged 72)
Belgrade, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia
Cause of deathExecution by firing squad
ProfessionSoldier, politician
Military service
Allegiance Kingdom of Serbia
 Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Government of National Salvation
 Nazi Germany
RankGeneral

Đura Dokić (Serbian Cyrillic: Ђура Докић; 21 December 1873 – 17 July 1946) was a Serbian general, notable for being an Axis collaborator during World War II. He served in the Royal Serbian Army during the Balkan Wars and World War I, where he rose in ranks, and was awarded four state orders, including Karađorđe's Star. In the Royal Yugoslav Army (1918–41), he rose to the rank of Army general. He was appointed Minister of Transportation in the Government of National Salvation headed by Milan Nedić on 7 October 1941.[1] He remained in that position for just over a year.[citation needed] The British captured him, along with other Serbian collaborationists.[2] He was tried and sentenced to death in the 1946 Belgrade Process. His representative at the trial was barrister Dragoljub Joksimović. He was accused of "conspiring to ship slave workers into Germany" according to contemporary American newspapers.[3]

Military career

Royal Serbian Army
  • Finished Military Academy on 2 August 1893 as 1st-class Captain.[4]
  • Received Infantry major rank (pešadijski major) (fl. 1910).[5]
  • Participated in the Balkan Wars. Received Lieutenant colonel (potpukovnik) rank.[6] Commander of the VI Regiment.[7] Active at the Battle of Bregalnica.[8] Wounded.[9]
  • Received Colonel (pukovnik) rank before January 1914.
  • Commander of 20th Infantry Regiment (20. pešadijski puk) as colonel,[10] active at the Battle of Cer (15–24 August 1914).[11]
  • Commander of "Centre Section" and later "Right Section" as colonel at the Battle of Drina (6 September–4 October 1914).[12]
  • Commander of Negotin Detachment (Negotinski odred) as colonel, active in the Eastern Serbian front in October 1915.[13]
  • Active in the Crna Reka operation and the liberation of Bitola in 1916.[14]
Royal Yugoslav Army
  • Received General (armijski đeneral) rank in 1922–23.[15]
  • Titled "Commander of the Army" (komandant armije) in 1930.[16]

Awards

Dokić was awarded four state orders, including Karađorđe's Star, for his achievements in the 1912–18 wars.[17]

References

  1. ^ Ferdo Čulinović (1970). Okupatorska podjela Jugoslavije. Vojnoizdavački. p. 521.
  2. ^ Vasilije Trbić; Aleksandar Drašković; Stojanče Ristevski; Stojan Janković (1996). Memoari: 1912-1918, 1941-1946. Kultura. ISBN 9788678010132.
  3. ^ Diary of World Events: Being a Chronological Record of the Second World War Photographically Reproduced from the American and Foreign Newspapers Despatches as Reported Day by Day, Including Maps, Pictures, Cartoons, Anecdotes, Official Messages, Reports and Declarations, and Congressional Acts... National advertising Company. 1946.
  4. ^ Spomenica pedesetogodišnjice Vojne akademije: 1850-1900. Vojna štamp. 1900.
  5. ^ Državni kalendar Kraljevine Srbije. Izd. Državne štamparije Kraljevine Srbije. 1910. p. 216.
  6. ^ Aleksandar Jovanović (1991). Sedam ratova generala Pavla Jurišića Šturma. Litera. p. 55. ISBN 9788674670088.
  7. ^ Mars (1913). Srpsko-turski rat u 1912-1913 godini: Od 5-14 Oktobra 1912. god. Izd. Dvorske knjižare M. Stajića.
  8. ^ Vojin Maksimović (1926). Bitka na Bregalnici: 17.-25. juna 1913. god. Državna štamparija Kraljevine Srba, Hrvata i Slovenaca. p. 29.
  9. ^ Vladan Đorđević (1919). Car Dusan. p. xii.
  10. ^ Srđan Rudić; Miljan Milkić (1 May 2015). Prvi svetski rat, Srbija, Balkan i velike sile : zbornik radova: = First World War, Serbia, the Balkans and Great Powers. Istorijski institut, Beograd / Institut za strategijska istraživanja, Beograd. pp. 299–. ISBN 978-86-7743-111-2.
  11. ^ Милан Старчевић (2007). Аустроугарски злочини у Србији 1914-1918-- Родолф Арчибалд Рајс. Геополитика. ISBN 9788686619051.
  12. ^ Veliki rat Srbije za oslobođenje i ujedinjenje Srba, Hrvata i Slovenaca: 1914 godina. Drugi period operacija. Bitka na Drini. IV V i VI deo. Štamparska radionica Min. vojske i mornarice. 1925. pp. 178–180.
  13. ^ "Sastav i raspored srpske vojske 3. oktobra 1915". 14 February 2017.
  14. ^ Yugoslavia. Ministarstvo vojske i mornarice. Glavni Đeneralštab (1930). Veliki rat Srbije za oslobođenje i ujedinjenje Srba, Hrvata i Slovenaca: 1916 godina. Ofanziva srpske vojske na solunskom frontu 1916 g. Treći period. Operacije na Crnoj Reci i Zauzeće Bitolja. Štamparska radionica Min. vojske i mornarice.
  15. ^ Yugoslavia. Народна скупштина (1923). Стенографске белешке Народне скупштине Краљевине Срба, Хрвата и Словенаца: Редован сазив. Штампарија Саве Раденковића и брата. p. 371.
  16. ^ Гласник Историског друштва у Новом Саду. Друштво. 1930. p. 343.
  17. ^ "Zaboravljeni junaci Karađorđeve zvezde". Novosti.