Grigor Dimitrov Natschowitsch

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Grigor Dimitrov Natschowitsch ( Bulgarian Григор Димитров Начович ) (* January 22 ^{. Jul} / February 3, 1845 ^greg. In Svishtov , then in the Ottoman Empire ; † 4. January 1920 in Sofia ) was a Bulgarian diplomat and conservative politician. Between 1879 and 1900 he was foreign minister three times, finance minister four times, interior minister twice and once minister for labor and agriculture in eleven governments of his country.

Life

Natschowitsch was born into a wealthy merchant family. He attended a Greek school in his hometown and then, until 1860, a French college in Constantinople . He obtained his higher education at a business school in Vienna and at a finance college in Paris . After his return he settled in Swishtow as a merchant and at the same time was active in the liberation movement against the Ottoman rule; In 1866 he was chairman of the local revolutionary committee. In 1867 he helped form a revolutionary legion from Bucharest .

During the April uprising in 1876 ​​as well as during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877/78, which led to the establishment of the Principality of Bulgaria , Natschowitsch wrote articles as a correspondent for various German and French newspapers. During the war he also worked for the Russian High Command.

Political career

Natschowitsch was a member of the appointed assembly of notables , which met between February 10 and April 16, 1879 as the constituent national assembly in Veliko Tarnovo and in the first three legislative periods a member of the regular national assembly in Sofia (until the end of 1883). In 1879 he became the first finance minister of the new state, in the same year he also took over the foreign affairs department until 1880. After he had been Minister of the Interior (and Deputy Mayor of Sofia) in a new government in 1881/82, he took over the Ministry of Finance again in 1883, before becoming his country's diplomatic representative in Bucharest in 1885/86. From 1886 to 1888 he was again Minister of Finance, in 1887 also Foreign Minister for a time, after which he represented Bulgaria in Vienna. In 1891/92 Natschowitsch was again Minister of Finance, and from 1894 to 1896 foreign minister again. In 1896/97 he was mayor of Sofia and in 1899/1900 he was Minister of Labor and Agriculture. From 1903 to 1906, at the end of his professional life, he worked as a diplomat in Constantinople.

As a staunch monarchist, Natschowitsch was one of the founders and first leaders of the Bulgarian Conservative Party. After the forced abdication of Prince Alexander in 1886, one of whose closest confidants he had been, he assumed a more independent and non-partisan position, so that he was also appointed minister by liberal heads of government.

Others

Since 1884 Natschowitsch was a member of the Bulgarian Literary Society, from which the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences emerged in 1911 .

Publications

• Нѣколко страници по земледѣлието в България и cтранство ( Some pages on agriculture in Bulgaria and abroad , Sofia: IP Daskalov, 1902)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Short biography ГРИГОРИ НАЧОВИЧ on the website of the Bulgarian Ministry of Finance, accessed on March 27, 2016.
2. ↑ Information on terms of office for Григор Димитров Начович on the website of the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, accessed on March 27, 2016.