Servatzy was born in
Ruma on 23 March 1889. As an officer in the
Austro-Hungarian Army he was decorated with the Golden Bravery Medal (). After the establishment of the
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, he was often arrested as a Croatian nationalist. After the proclamation of the
January 6th Dictatorship he left the
Yugoslavia and in
Italy he was one of the founders of the
Ustaše, along with
Ante Pavelić. In 1932 he was one of the organizers of
Velebit Uprising. In 1933 he succeeded
Jure Francetić as commander of the Ustaše's camp
Janka Puszta in
Hungary. He held this position until 1934. In April 1941, he travelled to the newly created
Axis puppet state, the
Independent State of Croatia, together with
Ante Pavelić, and became one of the founders and leaders of the
Ustaša Militia with the rank of
colonel in June 1941. In November 1944 he became a prefect of Gora-Prigorje County. In 1945 he was promoted to the rank of general. He was captured by the
Partisans and executed on 17 June 1945 in
Zagreb. ==References==