Konstantin (Costa) Mushitsky (April 7, 1897 , Slavonski Brod , Austria-Hungary - July 17, 1946 , Belgrade ) - Serbian general, commander of the Serbian volunteer corps of the SS.
Biography
A native of an old noble family, a distant relative of the Verkhnekarlovatsk bishop Lucian Mushitsky, who lived in the 19th century.
He graduated from high school in Zagreb . With the outbreak of World War I, at the age of 17 he was mobilized into the Austro-Hungarian army, where he rose to the rank of sergeant of the first class . At the end of 1914 he participated in a campaign against Serbia . Captured in the vicinity of Kolubara , and since that time was in the service of the Serbian army. After the defeat of Serbia, together with other Serbian forces, retreated to Albania .
He finished the war with the rank of second lieutenant and was awarded the Order of the Star of Karageorgiy . At the end of the war, he began to continue his education. In 1931, he was awarded the rank of captain of engineering troops.
During the reign of Alexander I Karageorgievich, Captain Mushitsky was his personal adjutant, and later - adjutant to Queen Maria Karageorgievich and King Peter II Karageorgievich .
In 1937 he was awarded the rank of colonel .
The attack of Nazi Germany in April 1941 found him in his hometown. After breaking through the front of the 2nd Army near Zagreb, Colonel Mushitsky was arrested by the Ustashi and sentenced to death, however, due to his former service in the Austro-Hungarian army, he was released. From Zagreb he moved to Belgrade on April 13, 1941 , where he came into contact with Colonel Milos Masalovic and the head of the pro-fascist ZBOR party, Dimitrie Letic .
At the invitation of the head of the collaborative government of Serbia, General Milan Nedic, Colonel Mushitsky led the Serbian Volunteer Corps of the SS and a group of volunteers in Belgrade , and was in this position from September 15 until his arrest on December 7, 1941 .
At the end of 1941 , he led the sweep of the west of Serbia from partisan detachments. After the legalization of certain Chetnik detachments, he was the chief negotiator between them and the Nedich government, and transferred weapons, clothes and food on behalf of the latter to the Chetniks. Such "self-activity" caused discontent among the Germans, for whom the Chetniks were officially enemies, and on December 7, 1941 Mushitsky was arrested on charges of cooperation with Drazh Mikhailovich and sentenced to death by a German military tribunal by shooting. Only thanks to the intervention of General Milan Nedic , who threatened the Germans with his resignation, the death penalty was replaced by a 1-year imprisonment, which he served in the Belgrade Gestapo prison and was released in mid- 1942 .
In 1943 he returned to military service and led the corps until it was disbanded in Slovenia in 1945 . In August 1944, he was awarded the title of Serbian General, as well as SS Oberfuhrer .
Under the onslaught of partisan forces from Bosnia, Mushitsky entered into a pact with the Chetnik leader D. Mikhailovich in Kotselev September 17, 1944 .
He left Belgrade on October 8, 1944 and retreated with his corps to Slovenia . On March 26, 1945 , in Postojna, he met with a delegation of Drazhi Mikhailovich, who was supposed to inform Mushitsky that from that moment on his forces should be transferred under the command of the Supreme Headquarters of the Armed Forces of Yugoslavia, headed by General Miodrag Damyanovich.
The agreement was signed on March 27, 1945 in the Ilirsk Bistrita , after which General Mushitsky resigned as the commander of the volunteer corps .
On January 8, 1946 , he was arrested by British troops and sent to the Eboli camp in Rimini in Italy, shortly after which he was transferred to the authorities of Yugoslavia as a war criminal. Convicted at the trial in June-July 1946 in Belgrade, together with the Chetnik commander D. Mikhailovich, and sentenced to death on July 17. Shot.