Momčilo Janković (

Serbian Cyrillic The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet (, ), also known as the Serbian script, (, ), is a standardized variation of the Cyrillic script used to write the Serbian language. It originated in medieval Serbia and was significantly reformed in the 19th cen ...

: Момчило Јанковић; 24 November 1883 – 27 November 1944) was a Serbian politician in the

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-controlled

Government of National Salvation The Government of National Salvation (; , VNS), also referred to as Nedić's government or Nedić's regime, was the colloquial name of the second Serbian Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, collaborationist List of World War II ...

in 1941.

Career

He was elected in 1938 as a deputy of the

Yugoslav Radical Union The Yugoslav Radical Union ( sr-Cyrl, Југословенска радикална заједница; ; ; abbreviated JRZ) was the ruling far-right party of Yugoslavia from 1934 until 1939. The party, whose agenda was based on fascism, was the ...

Milan Stojadinović Milan Stojadinović ( sr-Cyrl, Милан Стојадиновић; 4 August 1888 – 26 October 1961) was a Serbs, Serbian and Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Yugoslav politician and economist who was the Prime Minister of Yugoslavia from 1935 to 1939. ...

in the December election in 1938. Then he moved to Belgrade where he worked as a lawyer. He was appointed Minister of the Presidency Council in late August 1941, but due to disagreements with other ministers he left the government in early October. During his short tenure as Minister he was one of the signators of Order of Harsh Courts, in which it is prescribed that "everyone who exposes

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by words or acts or is a member of such organisation will be punished by death.

Death and rehabilitation

He was

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military court A court-martial (plural ''courts-martial'' or ''courts martial'', as "martial" is a postpositive adjective) is a military court or a trial conducted in such a court. A court-martial is empowered to determine the guilt of members of the arme ...

of First Proletarian Corps in 1944.Ćirković, Simo. Ko je ko u Nedićevoj Srbiji 1941—1944. Belgrade: Proseveta. 2009. In February 2012, he was rehabilitated by the High Court in Belgrade.

References

1883 births 1944 deaths Politicians from Niš Executed Serbian collaborators with Nazi Germany People killed by Yugoslav Partisans {{Serbia-politician-stub