Raoul Stojsavljevic (28 July 1887 – 2 September 1930) was an Austro-Hungarian World War I flying ace credited with ten aerial victories.
[2][3] Stojsavljevic was born to an ethnically mixed marriage in Innsbruck, his father being a Serb from Velika Popina in Croatia, his mother, Adelheid Hohenauer, being Austrian.
[1][4][5] While spending a period gaining experience flying reconnaissance for Flik 1, he survived a landing accident on 31 July 1914.
[6] It was while flying his 49th sortie that he was brought down by a snow storm and captured by the Russians on 16 February 1915.
They spent the next two months dodging the Russians, finally repatriating themselves upon the successful Austro-Hungarian Gorlice-Tarnów Offensive capture of Lemberg on 22 June.
Although he mastered the H-D, it was at the cost of a lingering knee injury suffered during a landing accident.
[6] He gained further experience and training in fighter tactics with Jagdstaffel 6 on the Western Front during May 1917, though he scored no victories there.
[6][7] On 12 January 1918, while flying a recce mission in a C.I, Stojsavljevic was shot down with a thigh broken by an enemy bullet inflicted in combat with aircraft from No.
The medical prediction was that he would never walk again without the aid of a stick, but he struggled back to health by October 1918.
He made an attempt to start commercial air service between Vienna and Budapest, but was closed down by the Allied Control Commission.