Rudolf Perhinek | |
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Nickname(s) | Rudi |
Born | [1] Vipavski Križ, Austria-Hungary (modern-day Slovenia) | 23 June 1906
Died | 5 August 1982 Cleveland, Ohio, United States | (aged 76)
Buried | Chardon cemetery |
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Rank | Captain Kingdom of Yugoslavia Major Chetniks Lieutenant colonel Belgian army |
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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]
There is an obituary on Rudolf Perhinek, Mihailovic's right hand man and organizer of the detnik movement in Montenegro.