The Royal Family of Serbia

THE ROYAL FAMILY WAS STRIPPED
OFF THEIR PROPERTY
(translation)

Government of the People’s Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FNRJ)

Classified No. 1433

2 August 1947

Belgrade

Based upon the Decree of the Presidency of the Presidium of the National Assembly of the People’s Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Adm. No. 392 from 8 March 1947 with which the Government of the FNRJ was entrusted to fulfil the decision of taking away the citizenship of FNRJ and entire assets of the members of the Karageorgevich family, the Government of the FNRJ hereby brings the following

O R D E R:

By the Decree of the Presidency of the Presidium of the National Assembly of the People’s Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Adm. No. 392 from 8 March 1947 (Official Gazette No. 64 from 1 August 1947) from the Karageorgevich family, the FNRJ citizenship is taken away and the entire assets have been confiscated from the members of the Karageorgevich family.

For this, it is necessary that amenable Canton Courts conduct the confiscation of assets on their territory; therefore the Ministry of Justice of the People’s Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is called to emit necessary instructions to the Courts which will, on behalf of Article 14 Paragraph 3 of the Confiscation Law, start up the process and transmit assets to the bodies which will administer such assets.

In implementation of confiscation, it is directed to attention that debts of the confiscated property are, without a doubt, smaller than the assets themselves, therefore procedure of evaluation of confiscated assets by the Decree of Valuation of Confiscated Assets, Assets of the German Reich and German Citizens, and of Debt Liquidation and Asset Claim, but only the potential validation of importance of some assets claims in relation to the confiscated property, which will be in charge of the Ministry of Finance of the People’s Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

It is from here onwards directed to attention that this confiscation also includes assets that today are still the property of Alexander I Karageorgevich, considering that the Decision of the Canton Court of the City of Belgrade No. 428/34 from 27 October 1938 that Peter, Tomislav and Andrei Karageorgevich are set as inheritors of these assets.

The Courts that will conduct the confiscation of assets and the state bodies appointed by the Government of the FNRJ to administer the assets, i.e. the state bodies entrusted by the Government of the FNRJ to appoint administrative bodies, are the following:

1) Canton Court of Oplenac Canton:

a) power station in cadastral municipality Topola on the name of Alexander I Karageorgevich, possession document No. 105, mortgage registration lot document No. 1;

b) administrative body – Sumadija Electricity Company of Serbia under administrative and operating management of General Directorate for Electric Power Industry of Serbia

2) Canton Court of Oplenac Canton:

a) Karageorge Canton Hospital in cadastral municipality Topola on the name of Alexander I Karageorgevich, possession document No. 105, mortgage registration document No. 1, lot 73;

b) administrative body – People’s Board of Oplenac Canton

3) Canton Court of Oplenac Canton:

a) old Karageorge’s Residence in cadastral municipality Topola on the name of Alexander I Karageorgevich, possession document No. 105, mortgage registration document No. 1, lot 484/2;

b) administrative body– People’s Board of Oplenac Canton

4) Canton Court of Oplenac Canton:

a) First Serbian Military Barrack in cadastral municipality Topola on the name of Alexander I Karageorgevich, possession document No. 105, mortgage registration document No. 1, lot 473;

b) administrative body– People’s Board of Oplenac Canton

5) Canton Court of Soko Banja Canton:

a) King’s prairies in cadastral municipality Soko Banja as legacy of Alexander I Karageorgevich, possession document No. 794

b) administrative body– People’s Board of Soko Banja Canton

6) Canton Court of Belgrade City Canton:

a) Dedinje Palaces and White Palace in cadastral municipality Belgrade 7 on the name of Peter, Tomislav and Andrei Karageorgevich, possession document No. 82, 86 and 189 in 9 lots

b) administrative body– Presidium of the FNRJ, General Department

7) Canton Court of Belgrade City Canton:

a) Royal garden Rakovica in cadastral municipality Belgrade 6 on the name of Peter, Tomislav and Andrei Karageorgevich, possession document No. 795, lot 3854;

b) administrative body– Presidium of the Government of the FNRJ, General Department

8) Canton Court of Belgrade City Canton:

a) house in the Bulevar Crvene Armije (Boulevard of the Red Army) No. 24 in cadastral municipality Belgrade 5 on the name of Peter, Tomislav and Andrei Karageorgevich, possession document No. 627, lot 583;

b) administrative body– Ministry of Defence of the FNRJ, for the needs of Military Supply Company

9) Canton Court of Belgrade City Canton:

a) house in Krunska (Crown) Street No. 7 in cadastral municipality Belgrade 5 on the name of Peter, Tomislav and Andrei Karageorgevich, possession document No. 627, lot 600;

b) administrative body – Planning Commission of the People’s Republic of Serbia, for the needs of Office for Measure Control

10) Canton Court of Belgrade City Canton:

a) house in Sarajevska (Sarajevo) Street No. 37 in cadastral municipality Belgrade 5 on the name of Peter, Tomislav and Andrei Karageorgevich, possession document No. 627, lot 1323;

b) administrative body– Executive People’s Council of the City of Belgrade

11) Canton Court of Belgrade City Canton:

a) villa in Tolstojeva (Tolstoy) Street No. 2 in cadastral municipality Belgrade 7 on the name of Peter, Tomislav and Andrei Karageorgevich, possession document No. 571, lot 268;

b) administrative body– Presidency of the Government of the FNRJ, General Department

12) Canton Court of Belgrade City Canton:

a) house with parcel of land in Rumunska (Romania) Street No. 1-3 and Topciderski Venac Street No. 62 in cadastral municipality Belgrade 7 on the name of Olga P. Karageorgevich, possession document No. 466, lot 180 and 181;

b) administrative body– Presidency of the Government of the FNRJ, General Department

13) Canton Court of Belgrade City Canton:

a) building in Averdareva Street No. 1 in cadastral municipality Belgrade 2 on the name of Maria A. Karageorgevich, possession document No. 4372;

b) administrative body– Film Company “Avala” under administrative and operational management of Ministry of Education of Serbia.

14) Canton Court of Belgrade City Canton:

a) house in the Bulevar Crvene Armije (Boulevard of Red Army) No. 75 in cadastral municipality Belgrade 2 on the name of Alexander I Karageorgevich, possession document No. 1573, lot 2797;

b) administrative body– Committee of Scientific Institutions of the Universities and Colleges of the Government of the People’s Republic of Serbia;

15) Canton Court of Belgrade City Canton:

a) King Alexander Home in Miodraga Davidovica Street on Topcider’s Hill in cadastral municipality Belgrade 6 on the name of Alexander I Karageorgevich, possession document No. 204, lot 1156;

b) administrative body– Ministry of People’s Defence of the FNRJ, for the needs of Military-political School;

16) Canton Court of Jesenice Canton:

a) villa in Bled in cadastral municipality Zelce on the name of Maria A. Karageorgevich, possession document No. 263, in 39 lots;

b) administrative body– Presidency of the Government of the People’s Republic of Slovenia

17) Canton Court of Jesenice Canton:

a) Gornja (Upper) and Donja (Lower) Radovna in cadastral municipality Veselnica on the name of Maria A. Karageorgevich, possession document No. 122, in 29 lots;

b) administrative body– Presidency of the Government of the People’s Republic of Slovenia

18) Canton Court of Jesenice Canton:

a) summer house Mezalki (Andrei’s village) in cadastral municipality Spodnje (Lower) Gorje on the name of Maria A. Karageorgevich, possession document No. 294, in 19 lots;

b) administrative body– Presidency of the Government of the People’s Republic of Slovenia

19) Canton Court of Jesenice Canton:

a) The Lord Castle at Bohinj Lake in cadastral municipality Savica on the name of Alexander I Karageorgevich, possession document No. 294, in 15 lots;

b) administrative body– Ministry of Industry of the FNRJ

20) Canton Court of Kamnik Canton:

a) leasehold of Hunter’s Home in Kamniska Bistrica for 30 years for the uses of Alexander I Karageorgevich; leased land is in cadastral municipality Zupanje nive, map’s document No. 13, in lot 873/1;

b) administrative body– Presidency of the Government of the People’s Republic of Slovenia

21) Canton Court of Kranj Canton:

a) Brdo Castle in cadastral municipality Predoslje on the name of Paul Karageorgevich, possession document No. 258, in 47 lots;

b) administrative body– Presidium of the Government of the FNRJ, General Department

22) Canton Court of Kavadarski Canton:

a) Royal agricultural estate Demir Kapija in title deed book Okolin People’s Court at Numbers 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 for the year 1930 and at the Number 72 for the year 1933, possession document No. 105 on the name of Tomislav A. Karageorgevich

b) administrative body will be determined by the Government of the People’s Republic of Macedonia

23) Canton Court of Bar Canton:

a) Milocer Castle along Budva in cadastral municipality Djenasi on the name of Maria A. Karageorgevich, possession document No. 402, mortgage registration document No. 252, in 173 lots;

b) administrative body will be determined by the Government of the People’s Republic of Montenegro

24) Canton Court of Cetinje Canton:

a) Leskovac Castle in the area of Crnojevic Rijeka municipality on the name of Peter, Tomislav and Andrei Karageorgevich

b) administrative body will be determined by the Government of the People’s Republic of Montenegro

25) Canton Court of Cetinje:

a) house and parcel of land in Cetinje in former Ulica Kralja Aleksandra (King Alexander Street) in cadastral municipality Cetinje, on the name of Peter, Tomislav and Andrei Karageorgevich

b) administrative body will be determined by the Government of the People’s Republic of Montenegro

26) Canton Court of Kranjina Canton in Negotin:

a) cobble mine Sikole, as part of Neresnica-Glogovica Mine Company on the name of Alexander I Karageorgevich;

b) administrative body– Management of Timocki Mines under administrative and operative management of General Directorate for Cobble of the Ministry of Mining of the FNRJ;

27) Canton Court of Kranjina Canton in Negotin:

a) Factory for gold mine refining in Glogovica, as a part of the Neresnica-Glogovica Mine Company on the name of Alexander I Karageorgevich;

b) administrative body– Management of Gold Mines in Pek under administrative and operational management of General Directorate of coloured metals of the Ministry of Mining of the FNRJ

28) Canton Court of Zviski Canton in Kucevo:

a) 1) laboratory for gold refining Neresnica

2) dredger in river Peka

3) Brodica, mine for gold extraction

4) Zeleznik, mine for gold extraction, as part of the Neresnica-Glogovica Mine Company on the name of Alexander I Karageorgevich;

b) administrative body– Management of Gold Mines in Pek under administrative and operational management of General Directorate of coloured metals of the Ministry of Mining of the FNRJ.

29) Canton Court of Zviski Canton in Kucevo:

a) 1) Radenka, coal gas pit of lignite

2) Sevica, coal gas pit of lignite as part of Mine Company Neresnica-Glogovica on the name of Alexander I Karageorgevich;

b) administrative body will be determined by the Government of the People’s Republic of Serbia

30) Canton Court of Belgrade City Canton:

a) Savings cards, bonds, shares, foreign currency, crate of valuables number 23 and other valuables – on safe keeping at the Receivership of King’s Goods, National Bank of the FNRJ

b) administrative body – Ministry of Finance of the FNRJ

31) Canton Court of Belgrade City Canton:

a) Library

b) administrative body – National library under authority of Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of Serbia.

32) Canton Court of Belgrade City Canton:

a) Archives

b) Administration organ – State Archives, Belgrade

33) Canton Court of Belgrade City Canton:

a) Claims by the list

b) Administration organ – Ministry of Finance of the FNRJ

When determining the state bodies which will administer assets, the following have been taken into account - present conditions, needs of the Federal and Republic’s bodies, the purpose of the assets, as well as regulations of the Decree of the Presidium of the National Assembly of the FNRJ regarding determining of Federal bodies for the buildings in state property.

All Federal organs which are administrating parts of these assets are called upon to immediately address authorized Canton Courts and to give them all necessary data regarding the executing of confiscation and transfer of assets.

Governments of People’s Republics are kindly asked to determine their Republic’s bodies which will administer parts of confiscated assets, if they are not already determined, and to call on all state bodies in their districts which administer parts of these assets or administration will be determined to them, to address relevant Canton Courts regarding the executing of confiscation and transfer of assets.

All state bodies will inform the Presidency of the Government of the FNRJ about the completed confiscation and transfer of assets.

Data of claims and debts of the confiscated mass shall be surrendered to the Ministry of Finance of the FNRJ by the Receivership of King’s Goods.

The Ministry of Finance of the FNRJ will take care of liquidation of the Neresnica-Glogovica Mine Company.

The Receivership of King’s Goods, after it surrenders parts of the assets that it manages today to the determined state bodies, as well as the data on claims and debts of this property will cease to exist, after which it will inform the Presidency of the Government of the FNRJ.

This confiscation does not include the agricultural estate of Oplenac together will all buildings and inventory, which is today managed by the Presidency of the Government of the People’s Republic of Serbia, since this is a part of the Foundation of St. George at Oplenac, so the Presidency of the Government of Serbia is consigned to act on behalf of Agricultural Reform and Colonization Law.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the FNRJ will execute the Decision of the Presidium of the National Assembly of the FNRJ about the citizenship record keeping.

The following should be informed about this: Presidency of the Presidium of National Assembly of the FNRJ, Ministry of People’s Defence of the FNRJ, Ministry of Internal Affairs of the FNRJ, Ministry of Finance of the FNRJ, Presidency of the Government of the FNRJ, General Department, Presidency of the Government of the People’s Republic of Serbia, Presidency of the Government of the People’s Republic of Slovenia, Presidency of the Government of the People’s Republic of Montenegro, Presidency of the Government of the People’s Republic of Macedonia and the Receivership of King’s Goods.

Death to Fascism – Freedom to the People!

Vice-President of the Government

of the FNRJ

(Edvard Kardelj)

(signed)