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Other names. Apis. Signature. Dragutin Dimitrijević ( Serbian Cyrillic: Драгутин Димитријевић; 17 August 1876 – 24 June 1917), better known by his nickname Apis, was a Serbian army officer and chief of the military intelligence section of the general staff in 1913. He is best known as the most prominent member of the ...
Feb 27, 2024 · Dragutin Dimitrijević (born August 17, 1876, Belgrade, Serbia—died June 27, 1917, Thessaloníki, Greece) was a Serbian army officer and conspirator, leader of the Serbian secret society Crna Ruka (“ Black Hand ”). A young army officer and already a member of the Serbian general staff, Dimitrijević in 1901 initiated an officers ...
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Dragutin Dimitrijević. Dragutin Dimitrijević (Serbian Cyrillic: Драгутин Димитријевић; 17 August 1876 – 24 June 1917), better known by his nickname Apis, was a Serbian army officer and chief of the military intelligence section of the general staff in 1913. He is best known as the most prominent member of the Black Hand ...
- Assassinations weren’t something new to the Habsburg Royal Family. Advertisement. Interestingly, the Habsburg Royal Family members were targets of assassination attempts, and some were also assassinated.
- The driver was never informed that the motorcade route had been changed. Leopold Lojka was a professional chauffeur in the service of Franz.
- Even after the first assassination attempt Governor Lieutenant General Oskar Pitiorek did not provide extra security for the Archduke. Having served as a military commander in the Austro-Hungarian army, Oskar Pitiorek became the governor of Bosnia from 1911 to 1914.
- The motorcar used by Franz Ferdinand and his wife belonged to Count Franz von Harrach. Count Franz von Harrach was a military officer stationed in Bosnia and was a member the Graf and Stift Company.
Nov 28, 2017 · Dragutin ‘Apis’ Dimitrijević, on his recovery, was formally thanked by the Serbian parliament and feted as a hero. In winter 1905 the king chose him as a travelling companion for his son Crown Prince George as he made his way across Europe on a hearts and minds tour.
The Black Hand (Unification or Death) was formed by a ring of influential officers of the Serbian army, headed by Dragutin Dimitrijević (1876-1917), known as “Apis”, in May 1911. [1] The immediate context for this formation was Austria-Hungary’s 1908 annexation of Ottoman Bosnia-Herzegovina, a move that thwarted the ambitions of Serbian ...
Apis's Men: the Black Hand Conspirators after the Great War. Dragan Bakić. 2015, Balcanica. The activities of Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijević Apis and his clandestine Black Hand organisation in Serbia have long been scrutinised in connection with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914 and the outbreak of the First World War.
