Ђенерал Драгутин Милутиновић (1865–1941). Војник и историчар

Aleksandar, Životić

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Summary/Abstract: Dragutin Milutinović, who was born in Beloševac, Kragujevac, on 28 September 1865 and died in Belgrade on 5 January 1941, was a cadet of the 17th class of the Serbian Military Academy and the Nikolayevsk Staff Academy in St. Peterburg, Russia. As a cadet, he participated in the war between Serbia and Bulgaria in 1885. He served in infantry assignments culminating as a regimental commanding officer prior to the Balkan wars of 1912-1913. He also served as a section chief in the Operations Department of the General Staff and chief of adivisional district staff, and was a prominent military writer and historian as well as a professor at the Military Academy. He served as chief of the External Section of the General Staff in 1901-1902, and as head of the Reporting Section from 1906 to 1909. During the Balkan wars, he commanded the 2nd line Timok Divison; and during the Great War, he commanded the 1st line Šumadija Division; Albanian troops; the Vardar Division; the Reserve Troop and Non-Commissioned Officers’ schools in Bizerta, Tunisia; the First Volunteer Division in Russia; and Adriatic troops. After the war, he was a delegate at Cetinje, Montenegro; Inspector for the Infantry; Chancellor of the Royal decorations; and member of the Military Council before retiring in 1927. He wrote a series of historiographical and memoir volumes. General Milutinović’s legacy is preserved in the Archives of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts.

Balkan wars, command, General Dragutin Milutinović, military, military history, Serbia, World War I