Mirko Komnenovic
Mirko Komnenovic | |||
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| Born | 21 September 1870 Herceg Novi, Austria-Hungary | ||
| Died | 1941 Kingdom of Yugoslavia | ||
| Nationality | Serbian | ||
| Citizenship | Serbia | ||
| Occupation | Army officer | ||
Mirko Komnenović (Herceg Novi, Austria-Hungary, 21 September 1870 - Herceg Novi, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 1941) was a Serbian army officer who Nikola Pašić sent to Imperial Russia to recruit volunteers for Great War.[1]
Mirko Komnenović comes from an old Serbian naval family. He studied in Tivat and took his post-graduate studies in Maribor in today's Slovenia, then part of Austria-Hungary and Switzerland. He is credited as the founder of the Serbian Creditor’s Guild in Herceg Novi. He worked for Kingdom of Serbia and the Principality of Montenegro as a counterintelligence operative against the Habsburg Empire with several other agents[2].
He was the minister of social affairs and public health and was imprisoned for a short while on the island of Mamula (island) but was released when it was proven that he was unjustifiably accused of wrongdoing. In 1916 he was sent by the Salonika-based Serbian Government-in-exile to Imperial Russia, where he rallied volunteer soldiers for the Serbian Army to fight at the Macedonian Front[3]. When the war ended, he entered politics [4]and was elected deputy of the Bay of Kotor by the newly-established People’s Congress (Skupština) of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, and in 1930, he was elected mayor of Herceg Novi where he remained until he died in 1941.
In 2020 he was commemorated in his hometown[5].
Awards and Decorations
- Order of Saint Sava (1st and 3rd degree);
- Order of the Eagle with Swords;
- Order of The Yugoslav Crown (4th degree); and Russian order:
- Order of Saint Vladimir (4th degree); and the highest French order of merit:
- Legion of Honor.
References
- ↑ "Herceg Novi se odužuje Mirku Komnenoviću". vijesti.me.
- ↑ https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Tajne_misije_Mustafe_Golubi%C4%87a/Vj1DAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Mirko+Komnenic%22+-wikipedia&dq=%22Mirko+Komnenic%22+-wikipedia&printsec=frontcover
- ↑ https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Zapomenut%C3%BD_boj/C20OEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Mirko+Komnenovic%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA51&printsec=frontcover
- ↑ https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Radni%C4%8Dki_pokret_narodnooslobodila%C4%8Dki_r/aEEZAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Mirko+Komnenic%22+-wikipedia&dq=%22Mirko+Komnenic%22+-wikipedia&printsec=frontcover
- ↑ http://montenegrina.net/fokus/herceg-novi-promocija-knjige-nebojse-rasa-mirko-komnenovic/
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