Dimitar Ganew

Dimitar Warbanow Ganew (also Dimitur Ganew , Bulgarian Димитър Върбанов Ганев ; born October 28, 1898 in Gradez , Sliven Oblast , † April 20, 1964 in Sofia ) was a Bulgarian communist politician . He was the Bulgarian head of state from 1958 to 1964.

Life

Ganew, a teacher by profession, came from a farming family. In 1921 he became a member of the Bulgarian Communist Party (Eng-Socialisten) (Българска комунистическа партия (тесни социалисти), БКП (т.с.) / BKP (ES)). In 1923 he took part in the anti-fascist September uprising. From the end of 1924 to April 1925 Ganew was a member of the regional committee of the BKP (ES) in Sofia and editor of the organ of the Central Committee of the BKP (ES), the newspaper "Новини" ( Nowini ; news).

From 1925 to 1929 he was a member of the Central Committee of the Independent Workers' Union and at the same time coordinated revolutionary activities in Dobruja on the instructions of the party . In 1929 he was elected to the Central Committee of the BKP (ES). From 1929 to 1935 he was secretary of the Central Committee of the Dobrujani Revolutionary Organization (Добруджанска революционна организация). 1934/35 Ganew was also a member of the Central Committee and the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Romania ( Partidul Comunist din România ). Between 1935 and 1940 he was imprisoned in Jilava , Craiova and Doftana Prison.

From 1940 to 1942 he was secretary of the district committee of the Communist Bulgarian Workers' Party (Българска работническа партия, БРП / BRP) in Dobrich . 1942 to 1948 Ganew was a member of the Politburo of the BRP Central Committee (Communists) (БРП (комунисти)). In February 1944 he became head of the Varna Military Operation Zone .

After the victory of the popular armed uprising on September 9, 1944, Ganev became editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Работническо дело" ( Rabotnitschesko delo ; workers' affair ), secretary of the Sofia district and the party's city committee, and vice-president of the Grand National Assembly .

1947/48 Ganew was ambassador of the People's Republic of Bulgaria in Romania . From 1948 to 1952 he was a candidate for the Politburo of the Central Committee of the BKP and Minister for Foreign Trade, and from 1952 to 1954 he was Bulgaria's ambassador to Czechoslovakia .

From 1954 to 1959 he was secretary of the central committee of the BKP, from 1957 again a member of the political bureau of the central committee. In November 1958 Ganew became chairman of the presidium of the national assembly of VR Bulgaria and thus Bulgarian head of state.

Honors

Ganew was awarded the title “Hero of Socialist Work of the VR Bulgaria” (1958) and three Georgi Dimitrov orders .

literature

• Dimitar Ganeff , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 21/1964 from May 11, 1964, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
• В. А. Гусев: Ганев, Димитр . In: Большая советская энциклопедия . Third edition. Издательство "Советская энциклопедия", Moscow 1969–1978 (Russian).