Radoje Knežević
Serbian politician and coup d'état organizer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Radoje Knežević (Serbian Cyrillic: Радоје Кнежевић; 20 August 1901 – 22 June 1983) was a key member of the group that organised the Yugoslav coup d'état of 27 March 1941 that deposed the regency of Prince Paul, Dr. Radenko Stanković and Dr. Ivo Perović, along with the government of Prime Minister Dragiša Cvetković. Following the coup he was appointed as the Minister of the Royal Court, and after the resulting invasion of Yugoslavia, he accompanied the King and government into exile in Cairo then London. Along with his brother Živan Knežević, he was a member of the so-called "League of Majors", which was at the centre of the ill-fated Greater Serbian agenda of the Yugoslav government-in-exile and who was instrumental in having Draža Mihailović appointed as Chief of Staff of the Yugoslav Supreme Command. He was sidelined in June 1943 when he was appointed to the Yugoslav legation in Portugal. He remained in exile after the war, was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment with hard labour in absentia during the Belgrade Process conducted by the country's newly-established communist authorities, and emigrated to Canada where he lived until his death in 1983.
Professor Radoje Knežević | |
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Minister of the Royal Court | |
In office 27 March 1941 – June 1943 | |
Monarch | Peter II of Yugoslavia |
Prime Minister | Dušan Simović to 9 January 1942 |
Prime Minister | Slobodan Jovanović from 11 January 1942 |
Personal details | |
Born | (1901-08-20)20 August 1901 Stragari, Kingdom of Serbia |
Died | 22 June 1983(1983-06-22) (aged 81) Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
Relations | Živan Knežević (brother) |