SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Dragutin Dimitrijević

1876 - 1917

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Dragutin Dimitrijević (Serbian Cyrillic: Драгутин Димитријевић; 17 August 1876 – 26 June 1917), better known by his nickname Apis (Апис), was a Serbian army officer and chief of the military intelligence section of the Royal Serbian Army general staff in 1913. He is best known as the main leader of the Black Hand, a paramilitary secret society devoted to South Slav irredentism that organised the 1903 overthrow of the Serbian government and assassination of King Alexander I of Serbia and Queen Draga. Many scholars believe that he also sanctioned and helped organize the conspiracy behind the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on 28 June 1914. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Dragutin Dimitrijević is the 85th most popular social activist (down from 80th in 2019), the 44th most popular biography from Serbia (down from 42nd in 2019) and the most popular Serbian Social Activist.

Dragutin Dimitrijević was a Serbian military officer who served as a colonel in the Royal Yugoslav Army. He is most famous for being the commander of the Black Hand, the group that assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, in 1914.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Dragutin Dimitrijević ranks 85 out of 840Before him are Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Martin Niemöller, Liu Xiaobo, Jenny von Westphalen, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, and Buenaventura Durruti. After him are Axel Munthe, Lê Đức Thọ, Jimmy Hoffa, Alexei Navalny, Widukind, and Jane Addams.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Dragutin Dimitrijević ranks 27Before him are Maurice de Vlaminck, A. L. Kroeber, Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgium, Wied, Prince of Albania, Willis Carrier, and Elsa Einstein. After him are Bruno Walter, Maxim Litvinov, Wilhelm Cuno, Max Jacob, Paula Modersohn-Becker, and Kim Koo. Among people deceased in 1917, Dragutin Dimitrijević ranks 16Before him are Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Emil von Behring, Emil Theodor Kocher, Edward Burnett Tylor, Buffalo Bill, and Franz Brentano. After him are John William Waterhouse, Ludwig Minkus, Mackenzie Bowell, Scott Joplin, Hussein Kamel of Egypt, and Radomir Putnik.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Dragutin Dimitrijević ranks 44 out of 661Before him are Tomislav Nikolić (1952), Josip Jelačić (1801), Aleksandar Vučić (1970), Alboin (530), Nikola Pašić (1845), and Miloš Obrenović (1780). After him are Ellac (425), Dragan Džajić (1946), Milan Nedić (1878), Alexander Karađorđević, Prince of Serbia (1806), Aleksandar Ranković (1909), and Milorad Pavić (1929).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Serbia

Among social activists born in Serbia, Dragutin Dimitrijević ranks 1After him are Vesna Vulović (1950), and Lepa Mladjenovic (1954).