Dimitar Stanchev
Dimitar Janew Stantschow (also written Dimitar Yanev Stanchov , Bulgarian Димитър Янев Станчов ; born May 21, 1863 in Swishtov ; † March 23, 1940 in Sofia ) was a Bulgarian politician , diplomat and Prime Minister for four days .
Life
Confidante of Prince Ferdinand I.
After attending school and studying in Vienna , he entered the service of Prince Ferdinand I , whom he served from 1887 to 1889, initially as personal secretary and then until 1894 as head of the princely cabinet. In this function he also prepared the wedding of the Prince to Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma on April 20, 1893.
After retiring from the princely service, he was appointed envoy representative of Bulgaria to Romania in 1894 and then from 1895 to 1897 in Austria-Hungary . Most recently he was envoy to Russia from 1898 to 1906 . After his return from Saint Petersburg , he was appointed Minister-President Dimitar Petkov 's Foreign Minister and Minister of Religion on November 5, 1906 , and held this office until January 29, 1908.
Prime Minister in March 1907
After the assassination of Dimitar Petkov on March 11, 1907, Dimitar Stantschow was appointed Prime Minister of a transitional government by Prince Ferdinand I on March 12, 1907 , in which he also took over the office of Minister for Public Education.
In the cabinet of his successor Petar Gudew , who was appointed on March 16, 1907, he retained the post of Foreign Minister.
Diplomatic career
After his resignation as Foreign Minister, he returned to the diplomatic service. At first he was envoy to Great Britain for a short time , but in July 1908 he moved to France as envoy , where he represented the interests of Bulgaria until 1915. In 1910 he was also accredited as ambassador to Belgium until 1915 . This made him one of the most important diplomats in Bulgaria during the Balkan Wars and at the beginning of the First World War . In 1915 he was ambassador to Italy for a short time . During the First World War he left the diplomatic service.
It was not until 1919 that he became secretary of the Bulgarian delegation in the negotiations on the Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine , which limited the strength of the Bulgarian army on November 27, 1919 to 20,000 soldiers. Bulgaria also had to cede several smaller areas in the west to Yugoslavia . In addition, the Bulgarian-ruled part of Thrace fell to Greece.
From 1920 to 1921 he was again ambassador to Great Britain and Northern Ireland. He was then again ambassador to Belgium for a year and most recently from 1922 to 1924 ambassador to the Netherlands .
President of the Bulgarian NOK and family
Most recently he was President of the Bulgarian Olympic Committee from 1925 to 1929 .
Stantschow married Anne 'ANNA' Rose Caroline Delphine Joséphine Françoise de Grenaud Comtesse de Saint-Christophe (born in 1861 Château de Chitry, Vallières, died 1955 London ) in Sofia in 1888 . At times she served as the court master of Princess Marie Louise of Bulgaria .
His daughter Nadezhda Stanschow was one of the first female diplomats in the early 1920s to become the Baroness of Deanston in Scotland through her marriage in 1924 . In addition, other diplomats came from his family.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Bulgarian ambassador in London
- ↑ President of the Bulgarian NOK ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Lady Diplomat Resigns, article in TIME magazine of July 2, 1923
- ↑ Barons of Deanston
- ↑ Bulgarian History ( Memento of the original dated November 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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Todor Burmow | Kliment Tarnowski | Dragan Zankow | Petko Karavelov | Johann Ernrot | Vacancy (assumption of office by Prince Alexander ) | Leonid Sobolev | Dragan Zankow | Petko Karavelov | Kliment Tarnowski | Petko Karavelov | Wassil Radoslawow | Konstantin Stoilow | Stefan Stambolow | Konstantin Stoilow | Dimitar Grekow | Todor Ivanchev | Ratscho Petrov | Petko Karavelov | Stoyan Danew | Ratscho Petrov | Dimitar Petkov | Dimitar Stantschow (interim) | Petar Gudew
See also: Incumbent after 1908
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Ratscho Petrov |
Foreign Minister of the Principality of Bulgaria November 4, 1906–29. January 1908 |
Stefan Paprikow |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stanchev, Dimitar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stantschow, Dimitar Janew; Stanchov, Dimitar Yanev; Станчов, Димитър Янев (Bulgarian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bulgarian politician and diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Swishtov |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 23, 1940 |
| Place of death | Sofia |