Dragutin Dimitrijević

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, a secret military society that organised the 1903 overthrow of the Serbian government and assassination of King Alexander I of Serbia and Queen Draga. Some scholars believe that he also initiated the plot to kill the Archduke Franz Ferdinand in June 1914, which led to the July Crisis and the outbreak of World War I. In 1916, the government in exile of Serbian Prime Minister Nikola Pašić, who considered Dimitrijević a threat, filed charges of high treason against the leadership of Unification or Death. 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.