Anton Yugov

Jugow is a redirect to this article. For the Polish village see Jugów .

Anton Tanev Jugow (also Anton Tanev Yugov written Bulgarian Антон Танев Югов * 28. August 1904 in Karasuli , Greece ; † 6. July 1991 in Sofia ) was a Bulgarian politician and former Prime Minister .

Life

Functionary and resistance fighter in World War II

In 1928, Jugow joined the Bulgarian Workers' Party, which was founded in 1923. From 1934 to 1936 he was in the Soviet Union for further training. On his return he was elected to the Politburo of the Labor Party in 1937 , which in 1938 merged with the Bulgarian Communist Party (BKP) .

During the Second World War he was an active member of the communist resistance movement against the pro- German government of Bogdan Filow . After the successful coup of the Fatherland Front on September 9, 1944, he was appointed Minister of the Interior in the government of Kimon Georgiev , of which he was a member until November 23, 1946. At the same time he was a member of parliament until 1946.

People's Republic of Bulgaria

As Minister of the Interior, he took part in the founding of the People's Republic of Bulgaria on September 15, 1946. He kept his office as Minister of the Interior during the government of Georgi Dimitrov until July 2, 1949. In 1946 he was re-elected as a member of the parliament and then later from the first electoral term in 1950 to the fourth electoral term in 1964 of the Grand National Assembly.

On July 20, 1949, he was appointed Minister of Industry and Mining in the government of Prime Minister Vasil Kolarov . As such he was a member of the government of the Stalinist Prime Minister Wulko Chervenkov until January 16, 1954 . He then became one of the Deputy Prime Ministers under this.

After Chervenkov's forced resignation, Yugov himself was appointed chairman of the Council of Ministers on April 17, 1956 .

As such, he set in motion a reform process aimed at de-Stalinization . This was supported in particular by the First Secretary of the Central Committee (ZK) of the BKP , Todor Schiwkow , who was elected in 1954 . After the elections to the Grand National Assembly, on March 15, 1962, he was confirmed in his office as Chairman of the Council of Ministers. At the 8th party congress of the BKP, which took place in November 1962, he and Chervenkov were accused of behavior that was harmful to the party and on November 27, 1962 he was relieved of all party and government offices. The actual reason for his dismissal, however, were his criticism of Zhivkov's economic policy and his support for the Soviet position of Nikita Khrushchev during the Cuban Missile Crisis .

Only in 1990 did his rehabilitation take place at the last party congress of the BKP .

literature

• Anton Jugoff , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 09/1963 from February 18, 1963, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

• Biographical information in rulers.org

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bulgaria's turning point: disappointment and hope. Article in Der Standard of October 20, 2003

predecessor	Office	successor
Walko Chervenkov	Prime Minister of Bulgaria 1956–1962	Todor Zhivkov