Atanas Semerdschiev

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Atanas Semerdschiew (also spelled Atanas Semerdzhiev, Bulgarian Атанас Семерджиев ; born May 21, 1924 in Lǎdžene ; † May 8, 2015 ) was a Bulgarian politician of the Bulgarian Communist Party (BKP) and its successor party, the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) and former Colonel General of the Bulgarian People's Army .

Life

Semerjiev was a Bulgarian partisan in World War II and is a graduate of the military academy "MW Frunze" in the former USSR and the military academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR "KJ Voroshilov" . From 1962 to 1989 he was head of the General Staff of the Bulgarian People's Army and a member of the Bulgarian Communist Party (BKP) and a member of the party's Central Committee. At the same time he was also first deputy minister of defense.

From the end of 1989 to mid-1990 he was Minister of the Interior in the government of the State Council chairmen Petar Mladenow and Stanko Todorow . Then he was Vice-President of the Republic of Bulgaria under Schelju Schelew until 1992 , until he was confirmed in office after the first direct election of the state president and the government reorganized. His successor was Blaga Dimitrova .

In 2002 he was found guilty of personally ordering the destruction of 144,235 files from the archives of the State Security Committee in 1990 and thus undermining the then still young democracy in Bulgaria.

Publications

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bulgaria's Former Vice President Atanas Semerdzhiev Dies at 90
  2. ↑ Jordan Baev: East-East Arms Trade: Bulgarian Arms Delivery to Third World Countries, 1950-1989. In: Parallel History Project . September 18, 2006, accessed May 9, 2015 .
  3. ^ List of Bulgarian ministers since 1944
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Höpken (ed.): Revolution on installments: Bulgaria's path to democracy. Oldenbourg , Munich 1996, ISBN 3-486-56150-2 .
personal data
SURNAME Semerdschiev, Atanas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Semerdzhiev, Atanas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Ladzhene
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 2015