Commissioner Government The Commissioner Government ( ) was the first Serbian puppet government established in the Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia during World War II ( within Axis - partitioned Yugoslavia ) . It operated from 30 April 1941 to 29 August 1941 . The leader of the puppet government was Milan Aćimović . Overview . Hitler had briefly considered erasing all existence of a Serbian state , but this was quickly abandoned and a search began for a suitable Serb to lead a collaborationist regime . After considering former Yugoslav Prime Minister Dragiša Cvetković , former Yugoslav Foreign Minister Aleksander Cincar - Marković , former Yugoslav Minister of Internal Affairs Milan Aćimović , the president of the ' quasi - fascist ' Zbor movement Dimitrije Ljotić and the Belgrade police chief Dragomir Jovanović , the Military Commander in Serbia decided on Aćimović , who formed his Commissioner Administration on 30 April 1941 , consisting of ten commissioners . They avoided Ljotić as they believed he had a ' dubious reputation among Serbs ' . Aćimović was virulently anti - communist and had been in contact with the German police before the war . He was sworn into office in late May . The other nine commissioners were Steven Ivanić , Momčilo Janković , Risto Jojić , Stanislav Josifović , Lazo M . Kostić , Dušan Letica , Dušan Pantić , Jevrem Protić and Milisav Vasiljević , and one commissioner was in charge of each of the former Yugoslav ministries except the Ministry of Army and Navy which was abolished . Several of the commissioners had held ministerial posts in the pre - war Yugoslav government , and Ivanić and Vasiljević were both closely linked to Zbor . One of the first tasks of the administration was to carry out Turner ' s orders for the registration of ' all Jews and Gypsies ' in the occupied territory and implementation of severe restrictions on their activities . While the implementation of these orders was supervised by the German military government , Aćimović and his interior ministry were responsible for carrying them out . During May 1941 , Förster issued numerous orders , which included a requirement for the registration of all printing equipment , restrictions on the press , operation of theatres and other places of entertainment , and the resumption of production . He also disestablished the National Bank of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia , and established the Serbian National Bank to replace it . Förster was subsequently transferred , and on 2 June was succeeded as Military Commander in Serbia by " General der Flakartillerie " Ludwig von Schröder , another Luftwaffe officer . In mid - May , Aćimović ' s administration issued a declaration to the effect that the Serbian people wanted ' sincere and loyal cooperation with their great neighbor , the German people ' . Most of the local administrators in the counties and districts remained in place , and the German military administration placed its own administrators at each level to supervise the local authorities . List of commissioners . From 30 April 1941 . From 30 April 1941 , the commissioners were : According to Philip Cohen , Aćimović , Vasiljević and Ivanić were Nazi agents prior to the invasion of Yugoslavia . From 11 July 1941 . After government reconstruction on 11 July 1941 , the commissioners were :