Momčilo Ninčić

Nationality

Yugoslavia

Date of Birth

1876

Date of Death

1949

Political
Preference

Conservative liberal/Nationalist

Momčilo Ninčić was a Serbian and Yugoslavian politician and economist. Born in Jagodina, Serbia, he received his law degree in Paris and held several ministerial positions in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He was a member of the People’s Radical Party from 1912 onwards, and served as president of the General Assembly of the League of Nations in 1926 and 1927. Ninčić served as Minister of External Affairs in the Yugoslavian government-in-exile in London during World War II, from 1941 to 1943. In this position, he worked towards closer collaboration with the Allies, especially the United States. One way of doing that was by taking a seat on the Comité des Ministrès des Affaires Étrangères des Gouvernements alliés, where he connected with all the other leaders of the exiled governments in London. Ninčić also tried to forge closer bonds with his regional partners, such as the Greek government, by studying the possibilities of creating a post-war Greek-Yugoslav union, with the potential of amounting to a Balkan Union.

After the war Ninčić went into exile in Switzerland, because he was sentenced to eight years of hard labor in the Belgrade Process for opposing the Communist leader Josip Broz Tito who gained power in 1944.