Andrei Toshev

Andrei Toshev, before 1900

Andrei Slawow Toschew ( Bulgarian Андрей Славов Тошев ; born April 16, 1867 in Stara Sagora , † January 10, 1944 in Sofia ) was a Bulgarian politician , diplomat and prime minister .

biography

Toschew initially studied at the universities of Edirne , Geneva and Paris , which he graduated in 1891. He then worked as a teacher at the Bulgarian male high school in Thessaloniki as well as at schools in Varna and Sofia .

In 1903 he was elected a member of the National Assembly, where he represented the constituency of Bitola . Two years later he entered the diplomatic service and initially represented Bulgaria as ambassador to Montenegro from 1905 to 1906 . He then became ambassador to Greece and from 1908 to 1913 in Serbia . In this function he played a key role in the creation of the Balkan Federation . This military alliance was concluded in 1912 between the Balkan countries of Serbia, Bulgaria , Montenegro and Greece to partition the remaining Ottoman provinces in Southeast Europe . The Balkan Federation opened the First Balkan War in October 1912 .

From 1913 to 1914 he was ambassador to the Ottoman Empire , before he represented Bulgaria as ambassador to Switzerland during the First World War and to Austria-Hungary from 1917 to 1919 . After the war he was finally ambassador to the newly founded Republic of Austria from 1919 to 1920 .

In the following years he was mainly active as a writer and, as before and during his diplomatic career, published several books.

After the military coup of the right-wing authoritarian organization Sweno ( Schäkel ), which was founded in 1930 and consisted mainly of officers , against the government of Nikola Muschanow in May 1934 and the subsequent military governments of Colonel Kimon Georgiev and General Petar Ivanov Slatew , he was defeated on April 21, 1935 Tsar Boris III. appointed Prime Minister. In this role he formed a cabinet consisting entirely of civilians.

After the elections to the National Assembly, however, he handed over this office to Georgi Kjoseiwanow on November 23, 1935 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Petar Ivanov Slatev	Prime Minister of Bulgaria 1935	Georgi Kjoseiwanow

personal data
SURNAME	Toshev, Andrei
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Toshev, Andrei Slawow (full name); Тошев, Андрей Славов (Bulgarian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Bulgarian politician and prime minister
DATE OF BIRTH	April 16, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stara Sagora
DATE OF DEATH	January 10, 1944
Place of death	Sofia