Milan Emil Uzelac

Milan Emil Uzelac

Milan Emil Uzelac (August 26, 1867 - January 7, 1954) was a Croatian soldier and military commander who was a leading figure in the air forces of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the Independent State of Croatia.[1]

Life

Milan Uzelac was born in Komárom, Hungary, on August 26, 1867. He was Serbian Orthodox Christian by birth.[1][2] He started in the compulsory Austro-Hungarian army in 1888.

In 1912 he was made commander of the Austro-Hungarian Imperial and Royal Aviation Troops, which until then had been mostly a force of balloons.[1] He modernized the force and was subsequently decorated with numerous imperial awards.

After World War I Uzelac joined the Yugoslav Royal Air Force on November 28, 1919, along with two other Austro-Hungarian generals, Rudolf Maister and Ante Plivelić. He retired on August 19, 1923.[3]

In 1941 he was saved by deportation by the Independent State of Croatia, through his friend Edmund Glaise von Horstenau, the Deutscher kommandierender General in Agram.[2] He was made an honorary general of the Air Force of the Independent State of Croatia, within the Croatian Home Guard.[4]

He died in Petrinja on January 7, 1954 and was buried in Zagreb's Mirogoj cemetery.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b c Emil (Milan) Uzelac
  2. ^ a b The decline of empires, p. 57
  3. ^ Čapo, Hrvoje (December 2009). "Former Austro-Hungarian officers in the Army of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes/Yugoslavia". Review of Croatian History (Zagreb, Croatia: Croatian Institute of History) V (1): p. 133. ISSN 1845-4380. http://hrcak.srce.hr/50558?lang=en. Retrieved 2011-07-06. 
  4. ^ Biographies - Home Defense Air Force
  5. ^ Milan Uzelac

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