Cabinet of Karađorđe Petrović

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Cabinet of Karađorđe Petrović
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4th Cabinet of Revolutionary Serbia
1811–1813
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Date formedJanuary 22, 1811
Date dissolvedOctober 3, 1813
People and organisations
Head of stateKarađorđe Petrović
Head of governmentKarađorđe Petrović
History
PredecessorCabinet of Jakov Nenadović
SuccessorCabinet of Mladen Milovanović II

In 1811, Karađorđe formed a new People's Governing Council along with his adversaries during the National Assembly meeting in Belgrade.[1] He decided to invite them to the Cabinet, and those who refused the offer were forced to leave the country. Such was the fate of Milenko Stojković and Petar Dobrnjac, who refused to be Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Justice, respectively. A new cabinet was formed, and unlike the previous cabinets, this one consisted of modern Ministries, with each of them responsible for a sector of government public administration. There were six ministers in this cabinet, including the Minister of Military Affairs, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Education, Minister of Internal Affairs, Minister of the Treasury, and the Grand Vilayet Judge (Minister of Justice). According to this new concept, Karađorđe still kept the supreme and absolute power in the country, but the People's Governing Council became an executive branch of the government.[2]

The Governing Council had several jurisdictions, and they included:[1]

  • Civil court duties
  • Consolidation of military operations and coordination of revolutionaries' actions
  • Supplying food and ammunition to the revolutionaries
  • Organization of law enforcement
  • Selling abandoned Ottoman properties
  • Collecting taxes for religious services

Cabinet members[]

Position Name Image In Office
President of the People's Governing Council Karađorđe Petrović Karadjordje Cropped.jpg 1811–1813
Minister of Military Affairs Mladen Milovanović Mladen Milovanovic Cropped.jpg 1811–1813
Minister of Foreign Affairs Miljko Radonić No avatar.png 1811–1812
Minister of Education Dositej Obradović DositejObradović.jpg 1811
Ivan Jugović Ivan Jugovic.jpg 1811–1812
Minister of Internal Affairs Jakov Nenadović Jakov Nenadovic cropped.jpg 1811–1812
Minister of The Treasury Sima Marković No avatar.png 1811–1813
Grand Vilayet Judge No avatar.png 1811–1813
First secretary No avatar.png
Second secretary Stevan Filipović No avatar.png

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