Vojvoda Putnik
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Voivoda Radomir Putnik GOLH, KCMG |
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| Chief of Staff of the Supreme Command of the Serbian Army | |
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In office October 8, 1912 – December 8, 1915 |
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| Monarch | Peter I |
| Preceded by | Himself |
| Succeeded by | Petar Bojović |
| Chief of the Serbian General Staff | |
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In office September 19, 1912 – October 8, 1912 |
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| Monarch | Peter I |
| Preceded by | Himself |
| Succeeded by | Himself |
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In office 1908 – September 19, 1912 |
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| Monarch | Peter I |
| Preceded by | Petar Bojović |
| Succeeded by | Himself |
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In office 1903–1905 |
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| Monarch | Peter I |
| Preceded by | Svetozar Nešić |
| Succeeded by | Aleksandar Mašin |
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In office 1890–1892 |
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| Monarch | Alexander I |
| Preceded by | Jovan Mišković |
| Succeeded by | Jovan Mišković |
| Minister of War | |
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In office April 17, 1906 – March 30, 1908 |
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| Prime Minister |
Sava Grujić Nikola Pašić |
| Preceded by | Sava Grujić |
| Succeeded by | Stepa Stepanović |
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In office January 26, 1904 – May 16, 1905 |
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| Prime Minister | Sava Grujić Nikola Pašić |
| Preceded by | Milan Andrejević |
| Succeeded by | Vasilije Antonić |
| Personal details | |
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January 24, 1847 Kragujevac, Principality of Serbia |
| Died | May 17, 1917 (aged 70) Nice, France |
| Resting place | New Cemetery Belgrade |
| Spouse(s) | Ljubica Putnik (1879–1917; his death) |
| Children | Ljubiša Putnik Borivoje Putnik Mila Putnik Milica Putnik Radojka Putnik Dimitrije Putnik Vladimir Putnik |
| Alma mater | Military Academy Serbia |
| Profession | Army officer |
| Awards |  Order of the Star of Karageorge Order of St. Sava Order of Saint Stanislaus Order of Military Merit Order of Saint Michael and Saint George(full list in the article) |
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 Principality of Serbia Kingdom of Serbia
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| Service/branch | Serbian Army |
| Years of service | 1861–1896 1903–1917 |
| Rank | Field Marshal |
| Battles/wars |
Serbo-Turkish War Serbo-Bulgarian War First Balkan War Second Balkan War World War I |
Radomir Putnik GOLH, KCMG (Serbian: Радомир Путник; pronounced [rǎdɔmiːr pûːtniːk]; January 24, 1847 – May 17, 1917) was the first Serbian Field Marshal and Chief of the General Staff of the Serbian army in the Balkan Wars and in the First World War. He took part in all of the wars that Serbia waged from 1876 to 1917.
Putnik's family, which fled with thousands of other Serbians from Kosovo during the Great Serb Migration of 1690 into the Habsburg Empire, returned from exile in Austria-Hungary to a Serbian entity independent of Ottoman rule in the middle of the 19th century. Putnik's father, Dimitrije, was a teacher in Kragujevac, and Radomir completed his basic schooling there. He attended the Artillery School (the precursor to what would eventually become the Military Academy) in Belgrade, where he graduated in 1863, placing eighth in his class. In 1879, he married Ljubica Bojović, the sister of Radivoje Bojović, who later became Minister of Military Affairs and daughter of Colonel Todor Bojević and Jelena Tadić, with whom he had seven children (three daughters and four sons). Contemporaries describe Putnik as an ascetic, introverted man, and a heavy smoker; however, he also had decided views on professional issues. He proved himself on the battlefield during Serbia's wars against the Ottomans fought between 1876 and 1877. It was a military force under his command that took Gnjilane and Gračanica from the Ottomans in Kosovo, during the closing stages of the second Serbo-Ottoman War (1877-1878. The Serbian troops, under Major Putnik, were obliged to pull back to Merdare in order to meet a stipulation in the general armistice between Russian and the Ottomans. Putnik was noted for being a self-righteous and demanding officer prone to strongly defending his point of view.
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