Jaka Avšič
Appearance
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Born | Ljubljana, Duchy of Carniola, Austria-Hungary | April 24, 1896
Died | January 2, 1978 | (aged 81)
Jakob "Jaka" Avšič (nom de guerre Branko Hrast) (24 April 1896 – 2 January 1978)[1] was the first commander of Chetnik units (Plava garda) in Slovenia during the Second World War.[2] At the end of October 1941, Colonel Avšič and Major Karl Novak went to Ravna Gora and met with Draža Mihailović, who appointed Avšič as his representative in Slovenia.[3] Avšič soon deserted the Yugoslav Royal Army in the Fatherland and joined the communists. He was then instructed by the communist executive board to try to convince other Yugoslav army officers to desert and join the communists.[4] During the war he used the pseudonym Branko Hrast.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Jakob Avšič, predsednik ljubljanskega MLO in vojaški general". www.kamra.si. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
- ^ (Крањц 2006, p. 20): " Prvi poveljnik slovenskih četnikov, konjeniški polkovnik (Rade) Jaka Avšič..."
- ^ (Rant 2008, p. 60)
- ^ Vojno-istoriski glasnik. 1983. p. 168.
Pošto je prišao OF-u, pukovnik Avšič je od Izvršnog odbora dobio uputstvo da utiče na oficire kako bi ih privoleo da priđu narodnooslobodilačkom pokretu.
- ^ Prispevki za zgodovino delavskega gibanja (in Slovenian). Inštitut. 1973. p. 198. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
Jaka Avšič-Branko Hrast
Sources
[edit]- Pirjevec, Jože (22 May 2018). Tito and His Comrades. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-31770-6. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
- Крањц, Маријан Ф (2006). Plava garda: zaupno poročilo četniškega vojvode in generalštabnega polkovnika Karla I. Novaka, poveljnika slovenskih četnikov. Pro-Andy. ISBN 978-961-91794-3-7.
- Rant, Jože (2008). Slovenski eksodus leta 1945. Selbstverl. ISBN 978-987-24162-1-8.
Categories:
- 1896 births
- 1978 deaths
- Military personnel from Ljubljana
- Carniolan people
- Members of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia
- Members of the Assembly of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
- Ambassadors of Yugoslavia to Austria
- Generals of the Yugoslav People's Army
- Austro-Hungarian military personnel of World War I
- Slovenian Chetnik personnel of World War II
- Yugoslav Partisans members