Uništenje srpske privredne elite posle Drugog svetskog rata – Primer porodice Teokarović
Destruction Of The Serbian Economic Elite After The World War Ii – The Case Of The Teokarovic Family

Summary/Abstract: The members of the Serbian economic elite were mainly the traders. The Teokarovic family belonged to this eminent group. Dimitrije Mita Teokarović, a trader from Leskovac started the manufacture of woollens cords in 1884. He also took part in founding the woollens factory. His sons Vlada, Lazar and Slavko built the modern textile industry after the World War I. The „Vlada Teokarović and co“ was expanding in the interwar period. But the occupation of the Yugoslav kingdom in 1941 and the victory of the Communists led to destruction of the Serbian economic elite and the Teokarović family as well. The middle class was deprived of the economic and political power. The highly respected members of the society were accused of collaborating with the enemy and sentenced to the severe punishment. Their property was confiscated. The regime of Josip Broz passed a large number of laws (such as: the law of the dispossession of war profit, the confiscation law, the law of electoral registers, the law of the criminal acts against the nation and country) just to eliminate the middle class from the political life. The members of the Teokarović family were accused of collaborating and helping the enemy. They were sentenced to death and their property was confiscated. This sentence was altered later, so they were released after 10 years spent in prison. The case of the Teokarović family is very similar to the cases of persecution of the Serbian elite.

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