Wassil Kolarov
Wassil Petrow Kolarow (also Vasil Petrov Kolarov written in Bulgarian Васил Петров Коларов ; born July 16, 1877 in Shumen ; † January 23, 1950 in Sofia ) was a Bulgarian politician and former general secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party (BKP) , chairman of the Provisional Presidium ( Head of State) and Prime Minister .
biography
Co-founder of the BKP and exile in the Soviet Union
Koloraw became a member of the Bulgarian Social Democratic Party (BSDP) founded in 1891 by Dimitar Blagoew in 1897 . He later became the leader of the so-called Bolshevik New Socialists within the BDSP .
In 1913 he was elected a member of the National Assembly for the first time, to which he belonged until 1923. In 1919 he was one of the founders of the Bulgarian Communist Party (BKP) . At the First Party Congress, he was elected General Secretary of the BKP alongside Blagoew, who became party chairman.
In 1921 and 1922 he was a delegate of the BKP on the III. and IV. World Congresses of the Communist International and its General Secretary. In addition, he was a member of the Presidium of the Comintern from 1922 to 1943 and as such also dealt with the political situation in the Balkans . However, this wish for a large Balkan federation later failed due to the break between Josef Stalin and Josip Broz Tito .
On September 23, 1923 he was alongside Georgi Dimitrov co-leader of the uprising against the government of Prime Minister Alexander Zankow . After the suppression of the uprising , he went into exile in Moscow , where he worked as an astronomer .
After the declaration of war by the Soviet Union against the Bulgarian Tsarist Empire and the subsequent invasion of the Red Army troops on September 8, 1944, he returned to Bulgaria from exile in Moscow. On December 15, 1945 he was elected Chairman of the National Assembly.
People's Republic of Bulgaria
After the founding of the People's Republic of Bulgaria on September 15, 1946, he quickly assumed top positions within the party and state leadership. On the very day the People's Republic was proclaimed, he became chairman of the Provisional Presidium and as such was the incumbent president until December 9, 1947.
In this function he appointed Georgi Dimitrov, who had also returned from exile in Moscow, as prime minister.
After resigning as incumbent president, Prime Minister Dimitrov appointed him foreign minister in his cabinet on December 11, 1947. He held this office until August 6, 1949.
After Dimitrov's death on July 2, 1949, the National Assembly appointed him to succeed him as Chairman of the Council of Ministers . At the same time he was again appointed to his successor as Secretary General of the BKP. Due to a serious illness, however, he was unable to exercise these offices, so that de facto First Deputy Prime Minister Walko Chervenkov held these offices as co-party chairman.
On January 23, 1950, he died in Sofia after a long and serious illness .
His grandson, who is also called Vasil Petrow Kolarov, leads one of the successors to the Bulgarian Communist Party - the Bulgarian Communist Party, which is part of the Bulgarian Left Coalition .
The city of Shumen was named after him from 1950 to 1965.
literature
- Wassil Kolaroff , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 12/1950 of March 13, 1950, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Web links
- Zvetelina Staikov Michel: Kolarov, Vasil Petrov. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Biography in rulers.org (English)
- Biography in the Marxist Internet Archive (French)
- Biography in Biografía y Vidas (Spanish)
- Newspaper article about Wassil Kolarow in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
- "Places and Things", article in TIME magazine on March 27, 1950
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archive of the ComIntern (PDF; 131 kB)
- ↑ board members of the Comintern 1919-1943
- ↑ Wassil Kolarow: The National Issues On The Balkans. ( Memento from July 15, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Article from May 3, 1924
- ↑ Balkan Federation - Stopped by Stalin. Article in Der Standard of October 20, 2003
- ^ Bulgarian key ministries
- ↑ News of his death in TIME magazine on January 30, 1950
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Georgi Dimitrov |
Prime Minister of Bulgaria 1949–1950 |
Walko Chervenkov |
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Chairman of the Provisional Presidium: Wassil Kolarow (1946–1947)
Chairman of the Presidium of the National Assembly: Mintscho Nejtschew (1947–1950) | Georgi Damyanov (1950–1958) | Dimitar Ganew (1958–1964) | Georgi Trajkov (1964–1971)
Chairwoman of the State Council: Todor Zhivkov (1971–1989) | Petar Mladenow (1989–1990)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kolarov, Wassil |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kolarow, Wassil Petrow (full name); Kolarov, Vasil Petrov; Коларов, Васил Петров (Bulgarian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bulgarian politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party, State and Prime Minister |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 16, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Shumen |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 23, 1950 |
| Place of death | Sofia |