Rudolf Perhinek

Rudolf Perhinek
Nickname(s)Rudi
Born(1906-06-23)23 June 1906[1]
Vipavski Križ, Austria-Hungary (modern-day Slovenia)
Died5 August 1982(1982-08-05) (aged 76)
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Buried
Chardon cemetery
AllegianceKingdom of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (−1941)
Chetniks (1941–1944)
 Italy (1942–1943)
Nazi Germany Germany (1943–1944)
Gestapo (speculations?)
Belgium Belgium
RankCaptain Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Major Chetniks
Lieutenant colonel Belgian army
Battles/wars
Awards Order of the Star of Karađorđe

Rudolf Perhinek (pseudonym Rade Perišin;[2] or čiča Rade[3] 23 June 1906 – 5 August 1982)[4] was Yugoslav military officer with the rank of Captain in the Royal Yugoslav Army who, soon after the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia, joined Chetniks of Draža Mihailović. He was a member of the Supreme Command of Mihailović's Chetniks and received the rank of Major.[5] Perhinek, also referred as Mihailović's right hand, organized Chetniks in Montenegro at the end of 1941.[6] In period October 1941 — September 1943 he was a special envoy of Mihailovic's Chetnik staff for Montenegro who was also responsible for the intelligence service in Montenegro and Albania. Some sources describe him as an agent of Gestapo.[7][8]: 186  For some time he was the Chief of Staff of Chetnik forces under command of Vojislav Lukačević.[5] Perhinek was an ethnic Slovene.[9] Yugoslav Government in Exile awarded him with Order of the Star of Karađorđe.[4]

  1. ^ Bevc, Ladislav (2006). Spomini. Založništvo Jutro. p. 247. ISBN 978-961-6433-71-6.
  2. ^ Marović, Miodrag (1 January 1995). Balkanski Džoker: Albanija i Albanci : istorijska hronika nastajanja i razvoja albanskog pitanja. Kulturni centar. p. 337. ISBN 9788670040052.
  3. ^ Serbia), Vojnoistorijski institut (Belgrade (1955). Zbornik Dokumenta. p. 251.
  4. ^ a b Martin Jevnikar, ed. (1974). Primorski slovenski biografski leksikon: 11 snopič (in Slovenian). Gorica: Goriška Mohorjeva družba. p. 617.
  5. ^ a b Pajović 1987, p. 109.
  6. ^ The South Slav Journal. Dositey Obradovich Circle. 1983. p. 65. There is an obituary on Rudolf Perhinek, Mihailovic's right hand man and organizer of the detnik movement in Montenegro.
  7. ^ Dedijer, Vladimir (1 September 1990). The War Diaries of Vladimir Dedijer: Volume 3: From September 11, 1943, to November 7, 1944. University of Michigan Press. p. 143. ISBN 978-0-472-10110-8.
  8. ^ Anđelić, Ljubo (1960). Grad na Tari. Savez boraca NOR-a Opštine Kolašni.
  9. ^ Tomasevich 1975, p. 124.