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  Dragutin Dimitrijević - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dragutin "Apis" Dimitrijević Serbian Cyrillic Драгутин Димитријевић Апис (August 17, 1876 - June 27, 1917), was a Serbian soldier and nationalist leader.
Dragutin Dimitrijević was born in Serbia in 1876.
Dragutin Dimitrijević was executed by shooting on June 24, 1917.
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 Dragutin Dimitrijevic - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Dragutin Dimitrijević "Apis" Serbian Cyrillic Драгутин Димитријевић Апис; (August 17, 1876 - June 27, 1917), was a Serbian nationalist leader.
Dragutin Dimitrijevic was born in Serbia in 1876.
The Serbian parliament described Dimitrijevic as "the saviour of the fatherland" and he was appointed Professor of Tactics at the Military Academy.
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 Dragutin Dimitrijevic -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
During the attack Dimitrijevic was badly wounded and although he eventually recovered, the three bullets from the encounter were never removed from his body.
Dimitrijevic's main concern was the liberation of Serbia from Austro-Hungary.
When Dimitrijevic heard that Archduke Franz Ferdinand was planning to visit Sarajevo in June 1914, he sent three members of the Black Hand group, Gavrilo Princip, Nedjelko Cabrinovic and Trifko Grabez from Serbia to assassinate him.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/D/Dr/Dragutin_Dimitrijevic.htm   (602 words)

  
 First World War.com - Who's Who - Dragutin Dimitrijevic
A founder member and leader of the Serbian Black Hand secret society, Dragutin Dimitrijevic (1877-1917), also known as 'Apis' (assigned to him as a youth on account of his energy: 'bee'), organised the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand which took place in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914.
Dimitrijevic himself was shot three times during the assassination (although the shots were never recovered from his body).
Dimitrijevic however was careful not to form one of the conspirators who actually travelled to Sarajevo to murder Ferdinand: Gavrilo Princip actually fired the shots that killed the Austro-Hungarian heir.
www.firstworldwar.com /bio/dimitrijevic.htm   (370 words)

  
 Black Hand
Dragutin Dimitrijevic, who used the codename, Apis, established himself as the leader of the Black Hand.
Dimitrijevic was concerned about the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, Ferdinand's plans to grant concessions to the South Slavs.
When Dragutin Dimitrijevic heard that Archduke Franz Ferdinand was planning to visit Sarajevo in June 1914, he sent three members of the Black Hand group, Gavrilo Princip, Nedjelko Cabrinovic and Trifko Grabez from Serbia to assassinate him.
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 BookSense.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The founder of the Ujedinjenje ili Smrt is the Serbian colonel Dragutin Dimitrijevic.
Apis is enchanted by the impetuous young man. Years before, in 1903, Dragutin had been the head of the conspiratorial officers who invaded the Royal Palace and assassinated the hated King Alexander Obrenovic and his wife, the former prostitute Draga.
He is divided between the pride of having his son as Dimitrijevic's protégé and the fear of Isabel's reaction.
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 Great war 1914 begun with assassination Archiduc Francois Ferdinand: pictures.
The leader of the group was Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijevic, the chief of the Intelligence Department of the Serbian General Staff.
Dragutin Dimitrijevic, and his fellow conspirators, Milan Ciganovic, Dragutin Dimitrijevic and Major Voja Tankosic sent three members of the Black Hand group based in Belgrade, Gavrilo Princip, Nedjelko Cabrinovic and Trifko Grabez, to carry out the deed.
The three men were instructed to commit suicide after Archduke Franz Ferdinand had been killed as it was important to Dimitrijevic that the men did not have the opportunity to confess that members of the Serbian Army were involved in the assassination.
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 Mavi Boncuk: Dragutin Dimitrijevic | 1877-1917
He was known as 'Apis' (assigned to him as a youth on account of his energy: 'bee').
Although sentenced to death by two competent courts, and deprived of the mercy of the Crown, I die innocently, and in the conviction that my death is necessary to Serbia for higher reasons.
Dimitrijevic on the right, Vulovic in the middle, and Malobabic on the left.
maviboncuk.blogspot.com /2004/06/dragutin-dimitrijevic-1877-1917.html   (871 words)

  
 Tour of Tragedies - The Alamo, Dealey Plaza, Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial 3/6
In 1903 Serbian Captain Dragutin Dimitrijevic and a group of junior officers planned the assassination of the autocratic and unpopular king of Serbia.
Backed by Dimitrijevic's cabal, Peter 1st (Karageorevic) assumed the Serbian throne and he repaid the chief assassin by promoting him to the rank of colonel and putting him in charge of Serbia's espionage operations.
Dimitrijevic, as its head, busied himself with the assassinations of monarchs or heads of state who stood in the way of the unification of the Slavic peoples.
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 World War 1 - Francis Joseph   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Dragutin Dimitrijevic (also known as "Apis" or "The Bee") was the founding member and leader of the "Black Hand".
Dragutin Dimitrijevic was also a Serbian Army Colonel and Chief of the Intelligence Department in the Serbian General Staff.
Sentenced to death for treason, Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijevic was shot at sunrise on 24 June 1917.
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 History of Serbia - Wikpedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The ties with the Hungarians had a decisive role in the fact that Uros I was succeeded by his son Dragutin whose wife was a Hungarian princess.
Later on, when Dragutin abdicated in favor of his younger brother Milutin, the Hungarian king Ladislaus IV gave him lands in northeastern Bosnia, the regions of Srem and Macva, and the city of Belgrade, whilst he managed to conquer and annex lands in northeastern Serbia.
Spreading the kingdom to the east by winning the town of Nis and the surrounding counties, and to the south by acquiring territories on Macedonia, Stefan Decanski was worthy of his father and built the Visoki Decani Monastery in Metohija - the most monumental example of Serbian Medieval architecture - that earned him his byname.
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 Dragutin Dimitrijevic --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
A young army officer and already a member of the Serbian general staff, Dimitrijevic in 1901 initiated an officers' conspiracy to assassinate the unpopular king Alexander Obrenovic.
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Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijevic, head of Serbia's military intelligence, was also, under the alias “Apis,” head of the secret society Union or Death, pledged to the pursuit of this...
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 First World War.com - Who's Who - Gavrilo Princip
Princip was one of three men sent by Dragutin Dimitrijevic, the chief of the Intelligence Department in the Serbian Army and head of the Black Hand, to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, during his visit to Sarajevo on 28 June 1914.
To this end they were each given a phial of cyanide, along with a revolver and grenades.
Each of the men suffered from tuberculosis and consequently knew that they did not have long to live; meanwhile, Dimitrijevic did not wish any of the men to live to tell who was behind the assassination.
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 Dragutin Dimitrijevic --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
More significantly, he was also a founding member (1911) and inspirational leader of the nationalistic secret society Ujedinjenje ili Smrt (“Union or Death”), better known as the Black Hand, which sought to create a Greater Serbia through the use of violence.
Dimitrijevic is considered to have played an important role in plotting the assassination of the Austrian archduke Francis Ferdinand at Sarajevo (June 28, 1914), which touched off World War I. In 1913 Dimitrijevic had been appointed chief of general staff intelligence in the Serbian army, and in 1916 he won promotion to colonel.
Soon afterward, however, the Black Hand society was marked for elimination by the Serbian premier Nikola Pašic, and in May 1917 Dimitrijevic was sentenced to death with six other officers and was executed.
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 History Channel
Colonel Dimitrijevic also was Chief of Serbian Intelligence department and a general on the Serbian general staff.
Dragutin felt this a threat because the land would be obtained without a Serbian victory.
Third, just because Dimitrijevic was over the Black Hand and also worked for Serbian Intelligence doesn't mean that the Serbian government sanctioned the hit.
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 Edinburgh On Remembrance Sunday   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Its leader was Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijevic, the head of the Serbian General Staff's Intelligence Department.
Dimitrijevic sent three men to join in a seven-strong Black Hand team in Sarajevo on a suicide mission to assasinate Franz Ferdinand.
After the deed each were to take the cyanide Dimitrijevic had provided to ensure that no-one knew of the Serbian military's involvement.
home.clara.net /gwsmith/worship/armistice/history.htm   (569 words)

  
 The Learning Curve | Great War | The Causes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
However, Colonel Dimitrijevic, chief of Serbian Military Intelligence and a supporter of terrorist groups opposed to Austria-Hungary, had supplied the weapons used, and this was enough to prove Serbia’s guilt in the eyes of Austria-Hungary.
Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijevic (or Apis) was not only head of the Military Intelligence section of the Serbian Chiefs of Staff, but also head of Ujedinjenje ili Smrt (Union or Death) sometimes referred to as the Black Hand.
Colonel Dimitrijevic was tried in 1917 for his part in the plot by the Serbian government.
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 Black Hand biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The society's implication in the June 1914 assassination in Sarajevo of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria helped spark World War I.
In May 1917 Dimitrijevic was tried on charges of plotting against the royal government, then exiled in Thessaloniki, Greece following Serbia's occupation by Austro-Hungarian, German and Bulgarian forces in late 1915.
His subsequent execution signalled the Black Hand's eclipse by the monarchist White Hand, which was to dominate the political outlook of military leaders in the inter-war Yugoslav kingdom.
black-hand.biography.ms   (125 words)

  
 The National Archives | Exhibitions & Learning online | First World War | Glossary
Dimitrijevic, Dragutin (1876-1917) Head of Serbian military intelligence, nicknamed Apis ('The Bull').
Advocated the use of violence to attain a greater Serbia and also headed the Serbian terrorist group, the Black Hand, one of whose protégés - Gavrilo Princip - assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914.
Dimitrijevic was executed for plotting against the Serbian royal family in July 1917.
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While still a teenager, Dimitri is taken by his old man to a clandestine meeting of the Union of Death, or the Black Hand, and favorably impresses Dragutin Dimitrijevic, the founder of this terrorist sect.
Dimitrijevic takes the lad under his wing, and places him in the group’s Assassins’ School.
While on board the legendary train he’ll have a serious flirtation with double-agent and knockout babe Mata Hari, and at the same time incur the wrath of her dwarf assistant, who will pursue Dimitri for years to come.
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 An International Symposium "Southeastern Europe 1918-1995"
The man who organized the assassination, then a captain, Dragutin Dimitrijevic, was in 1914 as a colonel Head of the Serbian intelligence services.
As we all know that started World War I. Dimitrijevic certainly was a dangerous man. One can easily imagine that neither the Serbian Crown Prince nor Prime Minister Pasic could sleep calmly at night as long as he remained alive.
But worse still, Dragutin Dimitrijevic was both a revolutionary and a born conspirator.
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 Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijevic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Dimitrijevic's background and eductaion were that of a professional army officer.
Apis and three others were sentenced to death for treason.
Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijevic was shot at sunrise on June 24, 1917.
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 children in history -- Gavrilo Princip
A 10-member Executive Committee was headed by Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijevic, known as Apis.
The mastermind was Major Dragutin Dimitrijevic who had organized disafected Serbian army officers.
Dimitrijevic by the 1910s was the dominant force in the Black Hand which instead of army officers was using young and very idealistic schoolboys.
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 Congressional Medal of Honor - World War I Congressional Medal of Honor Recipients History and Citation Index
When it was announced that Franz Ferdinand was going to visit Bosnia in June 1914, Dimitrijevic began to make plans to assassinate the heir of the Austro-Hungarian throne.
Dimitrijevic sent three members of the Black Hand group based in Belgrade, Gavrilo Princip, Nedjelko Cabrinovic and Trifko Grabez, to Sarajevo to carry out the deed.
Unknown to Dragutin Dimitrijevic, Major Voja Tankosic, a senior member of the Black Hand group, informed Nikola Pasic, the prime minister of Serbia, about the plot.
www.medalofhonor.com /WorldWarI.htm   (1502 words)

  
 Master   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
He was staying with an old family friend, Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijevic, (a.k.a.
Oihcconip was completely unaware of the fact that Dragutin was the founding member and the leader of the Serbian secret terrorist society - The Black Hand.
The Black Hand was established on May 9, 1911 and took over the terrorist actions of “Narodna Odbrana” (formed days after Austria annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina in October, 1908).
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 Assassination of Francis Ferdinand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The chief victim of this study was Colonel Dragutin Dimitriyevich of the Serbian secret service.
According to B. Schmitt, Malobabic was assigned by Dragutin Dimitrijevic to plan and carry out the assassination.
Major Voya Tankosich was the intermediary between Dimitrijevic and Princips, according to all the versions of the story.
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