predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place religion party profession office primeminister birth_date term_start article_title term_end name
post established ranisav avramović 17 january 1979 kotor , kingdom of dalmatia , austria-hungary united states of america serbian orthodox people 's radical party jurist , university professor commissioner for transportation commissioner administration milan aćimović 15 march 1897 30 april 1941 lazo m. kostić
 10 july 1941 lazo m. kostić
lazo m. kostić

lazar `` lazo '' m. kostić -lrb- 1897 -- 1979 -rrb- was a montenegrin serb nationalist writer , economist , statistician and doctor of law .
kostić was born on 15 march 1897 in vranovići near kotor in the kingdom of dalmatia within the austro-hungarian empire .
he was professor at university of belgrade school of law at subotica and law university in ljubljana and dean of university of belgrade .
after the axis invasion of yugoslavia in april 1941 , kostić joined the german-appointed commissioner administration , which was led by milan aćimović .
the commissioner administration was `` a simple instrument of the occupation regime '' , that `` lacked any semblance of power '' .
kostić was the commissioner for transportation from 30 april until 10 july 1941 when he resigned .
after that , he refused to take part in the successor puppet government , the government of national salvation led by milan nedić .
kostić left belgrade before its fall to the yugoslav partisans and the soviet red army in october 1944 .
he was charged with collaboration on 6 march 1945 .
following the war , he was a defender of the chetnik movement of draža mihailović , and wrote several books , advancing several controversial claims , including that bosnian muslims are serbs , and that war-time serbia was free of antisemitism .
since the fall of communism , kostić 's works have become readily available in serbia and many of them have been reprinted .
the nationalist serbian radical party has reprinted several of kostić 's works , with party leader vojislav Šešelj personally editing the publications .
