Dobri Boschilov

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Dobri Boschilow (1942)

Dobri Boschilow Chadschijanakiew ( Bulgarian Добри Божилов Хаджиянакиев ; born June 13, 1884 in Kotel , † February 1, 1945 in Sofia ( execution )) was a Bulgarian politician and prime minister .

biography

Promotion to governor of the National Bank and finance minister

After attending the commercial school in Svishtov , he joined the Bulgarian National Bank in 1902 . From 1902 to 1922 he was an accountant at the branch of the National Bank in Kyustendil . In 1922 he became a member of the board of directors of the National Bank. As such, he was acting director general from 1922 to 1923, 1923 to 1924, 1931 to 1932 and 1934 to 1935, before he was finally governor of the National Bank from 1935 to 1938. At the same time he was a lecturer at the Free University.

On November 14, 1938, Prime Minister Georgi Kjoseiwanow appointed him Minister of Finance. He later held this office in the subsequent governments of Bogdan Filow as well as in the brief interim government of Petar Gabrowski until September 14, 1943.

Prime Minister from 1943 to 1944

When Bogdan Filow after the death of Tsar Boris III. On August 28, 1943 , when he became a member of the three-person Bulgarian Regency Council for the minor successor Tsar Simeon II , he pushed through the appointment of Boschilov as Prime Minister, who, like himself, was a supporter of the pro-German attitude . At the same time, he also retained the office of finance minister.

As Prime Minister Boschilow worked with the National Socialists and was ultimately seen as their puppet. The only point on which he contradicted the Nazi regime was their demand for the deportation of Bulgarian Jews to the concentration camps .

On June 1, 1944, he resigned as prime minister as the Axis powers suffered increasing defeats. Successor as Prime Minister was then Ivan Ivanov Bagrjanow .

Boschilov himself was then again governor of the National Bank. He was arrested after the Soviet Union declared war on Bulgaria, the invasion of the Red Army and the coup d'état of September 9, 1944. Soon afterwards he was sentenced to death by a people's court for war crimes and a number of other crimes while serving as finance minister and later executed by the Fatherland Front .

It was not until 1996 that he was posthumously rehabilitated by the Supreme Court.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of Bulgaria 1939-1944
predecessor Office successor
Petar Gabrowski Prime Minister of Bulgaria
1943–1944 		Ivan Ivanov Bagryanov
personal data
SURNAME Boschilow, Dobri
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boschilow Hadschijanakiev, Dobri; Добри Божилов Хаджиянакиев (Bulgarian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian politician and prime minister
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Kotel
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1945
Place of death Sofia