Vojin Čolak-Antić

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Vojin I. Čolak-Antić (Serbian: Војин Чолак-Антић; 4 August 1877 – 29 July 1945), also spelled Voyin Tcholak-Antitch, was a Serbian senior army officer in the Royal Serbian Army and the Royal Yugoslav Army who held a number of senior commands, staff and diplomatic functions. Born into a prominent Serbian family with a long military history, Čolak-Antić attended the Royal Military Academy before training as a staff officer in France. He saw action during both Balkan Wars and the First World War where he served with distinction as a cavalry officer. After the retreat through Albania and the transfer to Corfu, he was appointed head of the Operation Division of the Supreme Command overseeing the 1st Serbian Volunteer Corps in Odessa. After the reorganisation of the Serbian Army and its redeployment along Greece’s northern border, he received command of the 2nd Cavalry Brigade during the Franco-Serb offensive of 1918, and the subsequent capitulation of Bulgaria leading to the liberation of Serbia. In the post-war period he was sent to the Paris Peace Conference, as representative of the new Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes to the Border Commission. In August 1921 he was appointed Governor General of the occupied Hungarian area…Citește mai mult

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Early life and education Čolak-Antić was born on 4 August 1877 at his family's home in Kragujevac, the former capital of the Principality of Serbia. As direct descendants of Vojvoda Čolak-Anta Simeonović, one of the leaders of the First Serbian Uprising of 1804, the Čolak-Antić family was among the most prominent noble military family. His mother, Jelena (née Matić) was a daughter of Minister Dimitrije Matić, the liberal politician and philosopher who had been Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Education, and Minister of Justice. At the time of Čolak-Antić birth, his father, Colonel Ilija Čolak-Antić, was commander of the Ibar Army during the Serbo Turkish War, the successful war of independence from Ottoman rule, a year later his maternal grandfather, Dimitrije Matić, was elected president of the National Assembly of Serbia, which ratified the provisions of the Treaty of Berlin proclaiming Serbia's independence. His father became military attaché in Vienna, at the time Serbia's main economic partner. Čolak-Antić had a sister Jovanka married to writer Ilija Vukićević and an older brother, Boško, born in 1871 who became a diplomat and a Marshall of the Court. Čolak-Antić was educated at Užice, in western Serbia, as his father prepared him for…Citește mai mult

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Career Upon graduation from the Military Academy, as a top graduate, he was posted to the Royal Serbian Guard, he entered the squadron unit with the rank of sergeant. Even though the conspiracy originated within this elite unit, there is no evidence that he was involved in the plot to assassinate the Royal couple during the May Coup of June 1903. That same year he was commissioned as Lieutenant of Cavalry and accepted to the senior staff college of the Royal military Academy. During the coronation of Peter I of Serbia, he was part of the Honour Guard protecting the sovereign and was selected to lead the King's horse. On 7 November 1904, Čolak-Antić was appointed to his first command, the First Squadron of the 4th Cavalry Regiment. He continued the General Staff training in the Operation Division of the Supreme Command from 1906 to 1909. In 1909, he was promoted to the rank of Major of Cavalry. On 31 March 1910, as a Military Cadet, Čolak-Antić was sent for further training in France, at the 23rd Dragoon Regiment, the famed Royal Piémont with the rank of Captain First-Class. Upon his return to Serbia, he was commissioned cavalry major in…Citește mai mult

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Postwar In 1918, while still commander of the 2nd Cavalry Brigade, he was appointed commander of military occupied Baranja, based in Pecs. After the collapse of the Hungarian Soviet Republic in December 1918, he allowed the transfer of communist miners to the territory of Baranja, he was briefly removed from his position but was reinstalled on 30 December 1919. As part of the Yugoslav delegation Čolak-Antić was sent to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. Following the demise of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the question of the delimitation between Hungary and its neighbouring countries was the subject of intensive talks, in 1920, the Treaty of Trianon ratified the decision to re-draw Hungary's borders. By the Treaty's conclusions, Hungary ceded western Banat, Bačka, Međimurje, and Prekmurje to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovene. The region of Baranja, with its administrative seat of government in the town of Pécs, was divided with the southern part annexed to the Kingdom of SCS according to a new boundary line, the so-called Clemenceau line. On 1 August 1921, Colonel Vojin Čolak-Antić was appointed commissioner of the Yugoslav-Hungarian Boundary Commission. The body tasked with defining a definitive delimitation between the two States. The commission work involved…Citește mai mult

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Retirement and death Vojin Čolak-Antić retired as a divisional general in the Royal Yugoslav Army in 1936. Upon the invasion of the country by the Axis forces in April 1941, he was handed over the war plan, the operational protocol and other sensitive material by his son Lieutenant colonel Petar Čolak-Antić, documents that he hid from the invaders. During the Nazi military occupation of Serbia, when those caught aiding Jews were punishable with the execution of entire families, Čolak-Antić arranged the escape out of the country of a Jewish doctor that he hid in the family home, less than 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) from the Banjica concentration camp, and petitioned the Germans for the release of Avram Berahi and his wife before they could be deported, both survived the war as a result. Čolak-Antić died on 29 July 1945 a few months after Belgrade was liberated, Germany surrendered and the Communist Partisans took control of the country, he is buried in Belgrade New Cemetery.

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Marriage and family Vojin Čolak-Antić married in 1904 Marija Grujić, daughter of Prime Minister Sava Grujić, and descendant of Vojvoda Vule Ilić Kolarac. The couple had one daughter, Simonida, and three sons who all became officers of the Royal Yugoslav army:

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