Background
Kvaternik was born in Vučinić Selo near Vrbovsko.
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Kvaternik was born in Vučinić Selo near Vrbovsko.
After he graduated from a gymnasium, Kvaternik joined the cadet school, and after graduation, worked as an officer of the Austro-Hungarian Army in Graz, Austria. Also, Kvaternik graduated from the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt.
Petar was killed by a group of Serb officers after he proclaimed the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) in Crikvenica. During World War I, Kvaternik fought in the Battle of Galicia and Carpathian Mountains. After the war, Kvaternik entered into service of the Army of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovens, but was immediately retired in 1919 as a major.
During his retirement, he dedicated himself to politics and he become active in the Croatian Worker (Hrvatski radiša), an association of which he was a director in Zagreb.
Yugoslav commander of the sector, captain Mirko Pleiweiss, formed a detachment of sailors from Selce and arrested Kvaternik in a post in Crikvenica, along with his associates. In the night between 10 and 11 April, Kvaternik was killed during the prisoners" transfer to the municipal building, when he tried to grab lieutenant Perkačević, a commander of sailors who guarded the prisoners, but Kvaternik was shot through an eye.
Doctor Hajdin, a local official who informed Pleiweiss about Kvaternik"s actions, was also killed. Kvaternik"s body was transferred to Zagreb, where he was buried at the Mirogoj cemetery on 15 April.