Mihailo Olćan
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Mihailo Olćan (Serbian: Михаило Олћан) (born 1894 in Crepaja, Austria-Hungary - died 1961 in Australia) was a Serbian soldier and fascist politician.
He finished gymnasium in Novi Sad and enrolled in medicine at the university in Pest. With the outbreak of World War I Olćan he joined the Austro-Hungarian army. He was sent to the Eastern Front where he eventually defected to the Russians.
He was one of the founders of the first fascist party in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the Yugoslav National Movement ZBOR. With the establishment of Nedić's Serbia during World War II, Olćan became part of its government, serving in the post of Minister of Economy from August 29, 1941 until November 7, 1942. With the state's eventual defeat, he escaped Yugoslavia to Australia where he died in 1961.
