Danilo Kalafatović

Danilo Kalafatović (Serbian Cyrillic: Данило Калафатовић; 27 October 1875 – 1946) was a Serbian military officer and Army general (Kingdom of Yugoslavia) who served in the armies of the Kingdom of Serbia (Royal Serbian Army) and Kingdom of Yugoslavia (Royal Yugoslav Army) during the first half of the 20th century. During the Second World War, he was briefly Chief of the General Staff and Supreme Commander of Yugoslavia.

Danilo Kalafatović
Danilo Kalafatović in 1926
Native name
Данило Калафатовић
Born27 October 1875
Konarevo, Principality of Serbia
Died1946
Moosburg, Bavaria, Allied-occupied Germany
Allegiance Kingdom of Serbia (1900–1918)
 Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918–1941)
Years of service1900–1941
RankArmy general (Kingdom of Yugoslavia)
Commands heldChief of the General Staff
Battles/warsBalkan Wars
World War I
World War II: Invasion of Yugoslavia (1941) (POW)

At the end of World War I, Kalafatović became head of the operational section of the Serbian general staff.[1]

During the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia, on 13 April 1941 General Kalafatović was named Chief of the General Staff of the Royal Yugoslav Army by King Peter II,[2] succeeding General Dušan Simović, who was also serving as Prime Minister.[3] Following the defeat of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Kalafatović designated Foreign Minister Aleksandar Cincar-Marković and General Radivoje Janković to sign the unconditional surrender of the country to the Axis powers.[2] He died in 1945 in Moosburg, Allied-occupied Germany.[1]

Notes
  1. Levental 1992, p. 107.
  2. Cohen 1996, p. 29.
  3. Vucinich 1969, p. 72.

References
  • Cohen, Philip J. (1996). Serbia's Secret War: Propaganda and the Deceit of History. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 978-0-89096-760-7.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Levental, Zdenko (1992). Rodolphe Archibald Reiss: criminaliste et moraliste de la Grande guerre [Rodolphe Archibald Reiss: Criminal and Moralist of the Great War] (in French). Paris: L'age D'homme. ISBN 978-2-8251-0197-1.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Vucinich, Wayne S. (1969). Contemporary Yugoslavia: Twenty Years of Socialist Experiment. Berkeley, California: University of California Press.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Military offices
Preceded by
Dušan Simović		 Chief of the General Staff of the Royal Yugoslav Army
1941		 Succeeded by
Dušan Simović
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