Sekula Drljević, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Sekula Drljević

Montenegrin politician

Date of Birth: 25-Aug-1884

Place of Birth: Ravni, Kolašin, Kolašin Municipality, Montenegro

Date of Death: 10-Nov-1945

Profession: writer, lawyer, politician

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Sekula Drljević

  • Sekula Drljevic (7 September 1884 – 10 November 1945) was a Montenegrin jurist, politician, orator and theoretician. Born in the town of Kolašin, he earned a doctorate degree in law and became the Minister of Justice and Finance in the Kingdom of Montenegro before the outbreak of World War I.
  • During the interwar period, he was a leading member of the "Greens" (zelenaši), a Montenegrin separatist movement.
  • A proponent of the theory that Montenegrins were an ethnic group distinct from Serbs, he also founded and became the leader of the Montenegrin Federalist Party. Following the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941, Drljevic began cooperating with the Italian authorities occupying Montenegro.
  • In July, he proclaimed the reestablishment of the Kingdom of Montenegro, but his attempt to establish an Axis-aligned puppet state triggered an immediate uprising.
  • That September, Italian authorities sent him to an internment camp in Italy after the outbreak of an anti-fascist revolt.
  • Drljevic escaped the camp several months later and made his way into the German-held half of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH).
  • In the summer of 1944, he created the Montenegrin State Council in Zagreb. Drljevic moved back to Montenegro in 1945 and agreed to the formation of the Montenegrin National Army with Chetnik commander Pavle Ðurišic.
  • Ðurišic and several other Chetnik commanders were later ambushed and murdered on behalf of Drljevic and the NDH.
  • Ðurišic's men later joined Drljevic's Montenegrin National Army and withdrew with him towards the Austrian border.
  • In mid-1945, Drljevic crossed over into Austria with his wife, and the two ended up in a camp for displaced persons in Judenburg, where they were killed by Chetnik agents seeking to avenge Ðurišic's death.

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