Fehim Čurčić
Fehim Čurčić | |
|---|---|
| 5th Mayor of Sarajevo | |
| In office 29 December 1910 – 1915 | |
| Preceded by | Esad Kulović |
| Succeeded by | Aristotel Petrović |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1866 Sarajevo (Saraybosna), Bosnia Eyalet, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 12 February 1916 (aged 50) Grimmenstein, Lower Austria |
Fehim Effendi Čurčić (1866 – 12 February 1916) was a Bosnian politician who served as the 5th Mayor of Sarajevo from 1910 to 1915. On 28 June 1914, Mayor Čurčić welcomed Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg to Sarajevo and was present later the same day at their assassination, the event that sparked World War I. He died aged 50 in an Austrian sanatorium.