Stanoje Mihaldžić

Stanoje Mihaldžič (Serbian Cyrillic: Станоје Михалџић; 4 June 1892 – 3 June 1956) was a Yugoslav politician who served as the Minister of the Interior of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 26 August 1939 to 8 July 1940 and then as the Ban of Drina Banovina from 10 July 1940 to 17 April 1941.

[2] During World War I, Mihaldžić volunteered in the Royal Serbian Army and fought on the Macedonian front as a reserve lieutenant.

[1] Mihaldžić was a Freemason and an Anglophile and in 1940, under the guise of an economic office in Belgrade, he employed a group of Slovenes who were spying for the British.

Nazi Germany put pressure on the Yugoslav government, explaining that there were "too many Freemasons" in the government, and Mihaldžić was removed from office[3] on 8 July 1940[4] and on 10 July 1940 named the Ban of the Drina Banovina,[3] a post he held until the capitulation of Yugoslavia on 17 April 1941 to Nazi Germany in the April War.

[3][6] According to the "Serbian Biographical Dictionary", after the World War II, he lived in Belgrade and died on 3 June 1956.