Milan Emil Uzelac
Milan Emil Uzelac (26 August 1867 - 7 January 1954) was soldier and military commander who was a leading figure in the air forces of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the Independent State of Croatia.[1]
Emil Uzelac was born in Komárom, Hungary, on 26 August 1867. He was born into a Serbian Orthodox Christian family.[1][2] He started in the compulsory Austro-Hungarian army in 1888.
In 1912 he was made commander of the Austro-Hungarian Imperial and Royal Aviation Troops, which until then had been mostly a force of balloons.[1] He modernized the force and was subsequently decorated with numerous imperial awards.
After World War I Uzelac joined the Royal Yugoslav Air Force on 28 November 1919, along with two other Austro-Hungarian generals, Rudolf Maister and Ante Plivelić. He retired on 19 August 1923.[3]
In 1941 he was saved by deportation by the Independent State of Croatia, through his friend Edmund Glaise von Horstenau, the Deutscher kommandierender General in Agram.[2] He was made an honorary general of the Air Force of the Independent State of Croatia, within the Croatian Home Guard.[4]
He died in Petrinja on 7 January 1954 and was buried in Zagreb's Mirogoj cemetery.[5]
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- 1867 births
- 1954 deaths
- 19th-century Austrian people
- 20th-century Austrian people
- 19th-century Hungarian people
- 19th-century Croatian people
- 20th-century Croatian people
- Croatian collaborators with Fascist Italy
- Croatian collaborators with Nazi Germany
- Air force generals
- Austro-Hungarian Air Service personnel
- Croatian military personnel in Austrian armies
- Military aviation leaders of World War I
- Croatian Home Guard personnel
- Royal Yugoslav Air Force personnel
- Croatian Austro-Hungarians
- Croats of Hungary
- Eastern Orthodox Christians from Croatia
- Burials at Mirogoj Cemetery
- People from Komárom
- Recipients of the Saxe-Ernestine House Order
- Recipients of the House Order of Hohenzollern, Honor Cross
- Recipients of the Iron Cross (1914), 2nd class
- Recipients of the Iron Cross (1939), 1st class
- Recipients of the War Merit Cross, 2nd class
- Converts to Roman Catholicism from Eastern Orthodoxy
