Dragutin Dimitrijević

Dragutin Dimitrijević

Dragutin Dimitrijević (Serbian Cyrillic: Драгутин Димитријевић; 17 August 1876 – 24 June 1917), known as Apis (Апис), was a Serbian colonel. He was a leading member of the military group that organized the 1903 overthrow of the Serbian government, which included the assassination of Alexander I of Serbia.Dimitrijević later led the Black Hand, a society responsible for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in June 1914, which led to the July Crisis and the outbreak of World War I. In 1916, Serbian Prime Minister Nikola Pašić, who considered Dimitrijević as a potential threat, accused Dimitrijević and the Black Hand group of treason. Read more on Wikipedia

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Dragutin Dimitrijević was a Serbian military officer who served as a colonel in the Royal Yugoslav Army. He is most famous for being the commander of the Black Hand, the group that assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, in 1914.