Otto Roth
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Otto Roth, also Willy Otto Roth or Dr. Rot, was a Hungarian and Romanian lawyer, journalist and politician who served as the Commissioner-in-Chief of the Banat Republic, between October 1918 and Janua
Portrait photograph, c. 1930
1918 annexation of Vojvodina
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The annexation of Vojvodina to the Kingdom of Serbia was carried out in November 1918, at the end of First World War, in the context of the creation of Yugoslavia. The ethnically mixed region consisti
Otto Roth
…By then, Serbia had joined the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (or Yugoslavia), which looked to annexing as much of the Banat as possible (see 1918 annexation of Vojvodina). The situation became tense, as the Kingdom of Romania competed with Yugoslavia for seizing territory in the Banat, including Timișoara, put them on…
Jaša Tomić was an early advocate of annexation of Vojvodina to Serbia.
Yugoslav Committee president Ante Trumbić and Serbian Prime Minister Nikola Pašić (first and the second from the left)
Momčilo Ninčić conveyed government instructions to Jaša Tomić and Petar Konjović.
Svetozar Pribićević allied himself with Regent Alexander in pursuit of a centralised state.