Nedeljko Čabrinović

Nedeljko Čabrinović
Nedeljko Čabrinović, c.1910s
Born	(1895-02-02)2 February 1895 Sarajevo, Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Died	20 January 1916(1916-01-20) (aged 20) Terezín, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Cause of death	Tuberculosis
Resting place	Saint Mark Cemetery, Sarajevo

Nedeljko Čabrinović (Serbian Cyrillic: Недељко Чабриновић; 2 February 1895 – 20 January 1916) was a Bosnian Serb member of the pro-YugoslavYoung Bosnia movement and one of seven young men of a secret society known as the Black Hand who conspired to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria during his June 1914 visit to Sarajevo.

All seven men were arrested; during the trial, Čabrinović and other members stated that the assassination reflected their anarchist beliefs. In response, Austria-Hungary issued a démarche to Serbia known as the July Ultimatum, leading to the outbreak of World War I.

Nedeljko Čabrinović was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia on 2 February 1895, during the rule of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Nedeljko was the oldest of five children from his father's first marriage.

His father kept a small catering operation on the outskirts of the city. His father's rudeness and physical abuse led to Čabrinović leaving home and dropping out of school in his teen years. He would become a locksmith and tinsmith, before settling down as a graphic worker.

Čabrinović found himself in a difficult financial position after leaving home, but was also bitter and miserable because of the social situation of the working class in general. As an opponent of "class exploiters", he participated in organizing a series of strikes in Sarajevo and other cities in Bosnia, for which he was often politically persecuted and expelled from various cities. At a very early age he started to read a variety of books and at one point lived in Zagreb and Trieste while trying to become financially stable on his own. He finally found a good job at a print shop in Belgrade, becoming familiar with anarchist literature. By his own account, he earned 90 dinars per month, which was not enough to pay for rent and food, let alone books, which, for Čabrinović, were "the only sign of life."