Danilo Kalafatović

Danilo Kalafatović
Danilo Kalafatović
	Danilo Kalafatović
Native name	Данило Калафатовић
Born	27 October 1875; Konarevo, Principality of Serbia
Died	1945 (aged 70); Moosburg, Nazi Germany
Allegiance	Kingdom of Serbia (1900–1918); Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918–1941)
Years of service	1900–1941
Rank	Army General
Commands held	Chief of the General Staff
Battles/wars	Balkan Wars; World War I; World War II: Invasion of Yugoslavia (1941) (POW)

Danilo Kalafatović (Serbian Cyrillic: Данило Калафатовић; 1875–1945) was a military officer who served in the armies of the Kingdom of Serbia and Kingdom of Yugoslavia during the first half of the 20th century. During the Second World War, he was briefly Chief of the General Staff and Supreme Commander of Yugoslavia.

At the end of World War I, Kalafatović became head of the operational section of the Serbian general staff.^[1]

During the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia, on 13 April 1941 General Kalafatović was named Chief of the General Staff of the Royal Yugoslav Army by King Peter II,^[2] succeeding General Dušan Simović.^[3] Following the defeat of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Kalafatović designated Foreign Minister Aleksandar Cincar-Marković and General Radivoje Janković to sign the unconditional surrender of the country to the Axis powers.^[2] He died in 1945.^[1]

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Military offices
Preceded by Dušan Simović	Chief of the General Staff of the Royal Yugoslav Army 1941	Succeeded by Dušan Simović

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