en Belgrade City Administration

Glavnjača prison, headquarters of the Belgrade City Administration, 1930s

Belgrade City Administration (Serbian: Управа града Београда, romanized: Uprava grada Beograda) was an administrative and security institution in Belgrade from 1839 to 1944. For most of that time, its headquarters was located in the notorious Glavnjača prison, on the present-day site of the University of Belgrade Faculty of Chemistry, on Students Square.

From the mid-19th century until the mid-20th century, Belgrade was governed by two levels of authority — the Belgrade City Administration, as the holder of police and administrative state authority, and the Belgrade City Municipality, as the holder of the local self-government. In 1944, the Belgrade City Administration was abolished after a different administrative organization was established in Belgrade.

Kingdom of Yugoslavia

When the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was divided into banovinas in 1929, a separate administrative and territorial unit called the Belgrade City Administration was formed, encompassing the City of Belgrade with surrounding area, including Zemun and Pančevo. This territory was entirely surrounded by the Danube Banovina, which had its administrative seat in Novi Sad. Following the Axis invasion, occupation and partition of Yugoslavia in 1941, the Belgrade City Administration continued to exist as an administrative and territorial unit of the Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia until the end of 1941, when Serbia was divided into districts in a new territorial organization.

Administrators

Name	Tenure	Notes
Jovan German	13 July 1839 – 22 November 1839
Ilija Čarapić	22 November 1839 – 27 May 1840	Son of Vasa Čarapić
Miloš Bogićević	27 May 1840 – 24 September 1840
Mladen M. Žujović	24 September 1840 – 6 August 1842 and 1858
Mihailo Ljotić	29 August 1842 – 22 September 1842
Tenka Stefanović	22 September 1842 – 6 November 1842
Radovan Damjanović	6 November 1842 – 20 December 1844
Jovan Vučković	20 December 1844 – 22 July 1848
Gavrilo Jeremić	22 July 1848 – 27 September 1852
Kosta Magazinović	27 September 1852 – 15 November 1855
Milivoje Petrović Blaznavac	15 November 1855 – 18 October 1856
Nikola Hristić	18 October 1856 – 11 February 1859 and 27 September 1859 – 7 October 1860
Jovan Belimarković	30 November 1858 – 11 February 1859
Jovan Dimitrijević Mitričević	11 February 1859 – 27 September 1859
Dragutin Žabarac	27 September 1859 – 19 January 1861
Mihailo Barlovac	19 January 1861 – 18 July 1868
Jakov Tucaković	1 August 1868 – 4 April 1873 and 1 June 1876 – 1 June 1878
Živojin Blaznavac	4 April 1873 – 13 February 1874 and 25 February 1879 – 17 March 1887
Dimitrije Joksić	13 February 1874 – 22 October 1875 and 22 October 1875 – 1 June 1876	Ac
Jovan Avakumović	22 October 1875 – 1 June 1876
Janko Terzić	1877 – 4 February 1878
Jakov Brzaković	4 February 1878 – 1 June 1878
Pantelija Lunjevica	1 June 1878 – 25 February 1879	Son of Nikola Lunjevica; father of Queen Draga and Nikodije Lunjevica
Živko Anđelić	17 March 1887 – 6 June 1888
Gliša Đorđević	6 June 1888 – 16 September 1889
Vladimir Milenković	1889 and 1892
Velimir Todorović	16 September 1889 – 13 January 1890
Svetozar Arsenović	13 January 1890 – 11 May 1891
Mihailo P. Jovanović	27 May 1891 – 1 August 1892
Pavle Denić	1 August 1892 – 2 April 1893
Stojan Protić	2 April 1893 – 7 April 1893
Đorđe Nestorović	7 April 1893 – 12 January 1894
Miloš Mihailović	12 January 1894 – 24 May 1894
Živko Kasidolac	24 May 1894 – 29 October 1894
Aleksa Stevanović	29 October 1894 – 1 August 1895
Nikola Stevanović	1 August 1895 – 20 April 1896
Rista Bademlić	20 April 1896 – 14 July 1900
Božidar Maršićanin	13 July 1900 – 29 May 1903	Deposed in the May Coup
Bogdan Damjanović	29 May 1903 – 24 June 1903
Dušan Vujić	24 June 1903 – 25 October 1903
Mihailo Cerović	25 October 1903 – 20 January 1905 and 16 March 1906 – 19 July 1907
Mihailo Rašković	20 January 1905 – 14 August 1905
Dragić Pavlović	14 August 1905 – 21 January 1906
Branimir Rajić	21 January 1906 – 15 March 1906
Dragutin Milićević	19 September 1907 – 22 April 1908
Obrad Blagojević	22 April 1908 – 27 September 1908
Dušan Alimpić	22 September 1908 – 10 May 1910
Gojko Pavlović	10 May 1910 – 4 September 1912
Manojlo Lazarević	4 August 1912 – 9 September 1918 and 24 September 1919 – 27 December 1934
Kosta Tucaković	9 September 1918 – 24 September 1919
Dušan Filipović	27 December 1934 – 13 October 1935
Milan Aćimović	13 October 1935 – 21 December 1938
Živojin Simonović	9 February 1939 – 20 April 1939
Dragoslav Lazić	1 March 1939 – 1 April 1940
Dragomir Drinčić	28 March 1940 – 27 March 1941	Deposed in the Yugoslav coup d'état
Milutin Stefanović	27 March 1941 – 1 April 1941
Dušan Ribar	1 April 1941 – 12 April 1941
Dragomir Jovanović	7 May 1941 – 5 October 1944	Served under the Government of National Salvation; fled amidst the Belgrade offensive