Momčilo Janković (

Serbian Cyrillic The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet ( sr, / , ) is a variation of the Cyrillic script used to write the Serbian language, updated in 1818 by Serbian linguist Vuk Karadžić. It is one of the two alphabets used to write standard modern Serbian, th ...

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

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-controlled Government of National Salvation in 1941.

Career

He was elected in 1938 as a deputy of the

Yugoslav Radical Union The Yugoslav Radical Union (Serbian language, Serbian: ''Jugoslovenska radikalna zajednica'', Југословенска радикална заједница; sl, Jugoslovanska radikalna skupnost, Croatian language, Croatian: ''Jugoslavenska rad ...

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

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

communist Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a s ...

anarchist Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is skeptical of all justifications for authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including, though not neces ...

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

Death and rehabilitation

He was sentenced to death by military court 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 Serbian people of World War II Serbian collaborators with Nazi Germany Executed Serbian people People killed by Yugoslav Partisans {{Serbia-politician-stub