Velimir Vemić

Velimir Vemić (1870 – after 1938) was a Serbian officer. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison at the Salonika trail in 1917 for his participation in the Black Hand, and his role in the assassination of King Aleksandar Obrenović and his wife Draga Mašin and for firing the first shot.

When journalist Luigi Albertini wrote his investigation into the origins of the First World War in the 1930s, many participants were still alive to be interviewed about their recollections of those tragic moments. He questioned the surviving members of the Black hand, Velimir Vemić, Čedomir A. Popović, Vladimir Tucović, and Božin Simić in November 1937 about the events that took place in the first decades of the 20th century. According to them, what British historian Robert Seton-Watson wrote regarding the Black Hand that it "favored concessions to Bulgarians" was absolutely false. In fact, the Black Hand was strongly opposed to any kind of concessions whatsoever.

The diary of Velimir Vemić is one of the few primary sources of events that took place during the May Coup in 1903 until the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914.

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1870 births
20th-century deaths
Year of death unknown

Date of death unknown
Assassinations in Serbia
Black Hand (Serbia)
People from the Principality of Serbia
Serbian soldiers
People from the Kingdom of Serbia