Stanoje Mihaldžić

Stanoje Mihaldžič (; 4 June 18923 June 1956) was a Yugoslav politician who served as the Minister of the Interior of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 26 August 1939 to 8 July 1940 and then as the Ban of Drina Banovina from 10 July 1940 to 17 April 1941.

Biography Mihaldžić was born to Croatian Serb parents on 4 June 1892 in Jasenovac, then part of Austria-Hungary. After finishing elementary school in Zagreb, and high school in Budapest, he graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb. During World War I, Mihaldžić volunteered in the Royal Serbian Army and fought on the Macedonian front as a reserve lieutenant. and on 10 July 1940 named the Ban of the Drina Banovina, a post he held until the capitulation of Yugoslavia on 17 April 1941 to Nazi Germany in the April War.

According to some, he was killed in mid 1941 in Sarajevo by the Germans or Ustaše due to his ties with the British, and according to others he was captured by the Germans, taken to Graz and survived the war. His fate is still unknown. According to the "Serbian Biographical Dictionary", after the World War II, he lived in Belgrade and died on 3 June 1956. He was buried at the Mirogoj Cemetery in Zagreb.