Petar Živković

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Petar Živković

11th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia
In office 7 January 1929 – 4 April 1932
Monarch	Alexander I
Preceded by	Anton Korošec
Succeeded by	Vojislav Marinković
Minister without Portfolio
In office 1943–1943/45
Monarch	Peter II
Preceded by	None
Succeeded by	None
Personal details
Born	1 January 1879 Negotin, Serbia
Died	3 February 1947(1947-02-03) (aged 68) Paris, France
Nationality	Yugoslav
Political party	Yugoslav Radical Peasants' Democracy Yugoslav National Party
Religion	Serbian Orthodox
Military service
Allegiance	Yugoslavia
Service/branch	Royal Yugoslav Army
Years of service	1903-1943
Rank	General of the Army
Battles/wars	World War I

Petar Živković (Cyrillic script: Петар Живковић; 1 January 1879 – 3 February 1947) was a Serbian soldier and political figure in Yugoslavia. He was Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from January 7, 1929 until April 4, 1932.

Life

Petar Živković was born in Negotin, Principality of Serbia (present-day Bor District, Serbia) in 1879. A soldier at the Serbian court, he helped to overthrow the House of Obrenović, with the assassination of King Aleksandar Obrenović. He later became a member of the White Hand, which opposed the Serbian nationalism of the Black Hand. In 1921, Alexander I of Yugoslavia appointed Živković commander of the Palace Guards; in 1929 he was appointed prime minister.

Živković held the office as a member of the Yugoslav Radical Peasants' Democracy, or JRSD, which was soon the only legal party in Yugoslavia, due to his electoral "reforms." He resigned as prime minister in 1932, and shortly thereafter founded the Yugoslav National Party, becoming its president in 1936.

Meanwhile, Alexander I had been assassinated, in 1934; his cousin Pavle Karađorđević took office as regent for the 11-year-old Petar II. Upon Pavle's 1941 signing of the Tripartite Pact, Živković left Yugoslavia, ahead of the Nazi invasion (see Balkans Campaign). He became part of the Yugoslav government in exile.

In 1946 he was tried in absentia in Yugoslavia and sentenced to death. He remained in exile in France, dying in Paris in 1947, aged 68.

References

External links

"Zivkovic, Petar." Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service.

Political offices
Preceded by Anton Korošec	Prime Minister of Yugoslavia 1929–1932	Succeeded by Vojislav Marinković
New office	Minister without Portfolio 1943–1943/45	Abolished

v t e Prime Ministers of Yugoslavia

Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918-1943)	Nikola Pašić Stojan Protić Ljubomir Davidović Stojan Protić Milenko Vesnić Nikola Pašić Ljubomir Davidović Nikola Pašić Nikola Uzunović Velimir Vukićević Anton Korošec Petar Živković Vojislav Marinković Milan Srškić Nikola Uzunović Bogoljub Jevtić Milan Stojadinović Dragiša Cvetković Dušan Simović* Slobodan Jovanović* Miloš Trifunović* Božidar Purić* Ivan Šubašić* Drago Marušič*

Federal Yugoslavia (1943-1992)	Josip Broz Tito Petar Stambolić Mika Špiljak Mitja Ribičič Džemal Bijedić Veselin Đuranović Milka Planinc Branko Mikulić Ante Marković Aleksandar Mitrović (acting)

* in exile

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Persondata
Name	Zivanic, Petar
Alternative names
Short description	Prime Minister of Yugoslavia
Date of birth	1 January 1879
Place of birth	Negotin, Serbia
Date of death	3 February 1947
Place of death	Paris, France

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