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Subfonds · 1920-1951
Part of Andrićiana - Ivo Andrić fonds

Andric's diplomatic career spans the period of almost twenty years, from February 1920, when he started work in the ministry of external affairs as secretary in Class III, until April 1941 when the Germans attacked Yugoslavia and his mission as the Yugoslav anbassador to the Third Recih came to an end. As a diplomat, Andric served in many cities of Europe:Bucharest, Madrid, Geneva, Brussels, Rome, Trieste, Graz and Berlin. The following documentation gives a rare insight into Andric's long years of service in the diplomatic corps of his country.

Photos, videos, slides

This collection, consisting of four albums of photographs (over two hundred b/w pictures, mostly 4 or 5X7, and cca. 150 negatives), and spanning sixty two years of Andric's life beginning in 1912, is the most complete private photo collection of Andric in existence.

This unique collection includes copies of diplomatic correspondence between the Foreign Ministry in Berlin and the German legation in Yugoslavia, records of conversations between Hitler, Ribbentrop and theYugoslav foreign minister Cincar-Markovic, between the royal Yugoslav minister plenipotentiary and special envoy Ivo Andric and Cincar-Markovic, Andric and the German ambassador in Yugoslavia Viktor von Heeren, Andric and State Secretary of the German Foreign Ministry Ernst Freiherr von Weizsacker, Andric and Prince Regent Paul of Yugoslavia, Andric and the German economic expert on the Balkans Karl Clodius, Andric and the Reich Marshal Hermann Goring, Andric and Alexander Freiherr Dornberg, Chief of protocol of the German foreign office, Andric-Dr.Hans Kastner, German ministery official who accompanied the Yugoslav diplomats to Bad Schachen, Andric and Yugoslav minister president Dragisa Cvetkovic, Andric and Ernst Woerman, Assistant secretary and chief of the political division of the German foreign office, Andric and the Yugoslav foreign minister Momcilo Nincic, etc. This unique collection contains over 250 files, with over 500 separate items (newspaper articles, memoranda, records of private and official conversations, telegrams, records of verbal messages), and is paramount to understanding Andric's diplomatic career, especially his role in Yugoslavia's joining the Tripartite Pact powers in Vienna on March 25, 1941, and in the aftermath of Germanys savage attack on Yugoslavia in April, 1941, when Yugoslav diplomatic and consular representatives in Germany and the occupied territories of France, Belgium and Holland were rounded up and forcibly taken to Constance and Bad Schachen, in the south of Germany, and retained there until their eventual deportation to Belgrade in June, 1941.