Famous People with Name Angeli

Edgar Angeli            Origin/Culture/Country: Serbia, Europe

Edgar Angeli: was Croatian rear admiral of Navy of the Independent State of Croatia of Jewish origin. In 1919 he was assigned to War Navy of Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in rank of lieutenant commander. He saw capitulation of Kingdom of Yugoslavia in rank of captain while he commanded river fleet. Because he was earlier connected with Croatian officers who supported Ustaše and Slavko Kvaternik he assigned as officer of newly formed Navy of the Independent State of Croatia and became deputy commander on 10 April 1941. In Croatian Navy he continued to command river fleet and he got coastal port gendarmerie under his command. He participated in creation of Croatian Naval Legion which served as part of Kriegsmarine on Black Sea and Azov Sea, he also broke Treaty of Rome signed by Pavelic and Mussolini whereby the Italians forbade Croatia to build any sort of navy. For his merits he was decorated with Order of the Crown of King Zvonimir 3rd Class on 13 June 1942 from Poglavnik Ante Pavelic. He retired on 21 April 1944 on his own request because he was ill. In May 1945 he pulled up to Bleiburg, later he was extradited by British Army to Yugoslav Partisans. He was imprisoned in partisan HQ in Zagreb where he was killed on 17 June 1945 by partisans from revenge because he gave resistance to partisans of Petar Drapšin near Trieste and resisted for next three days when he retreated to Ancona.