Grisha Filipov

Georgi (Grischa) Stanschew Filipow ( Bulgarian Георги (Гриша) Станчев Филипов ) (born July 13, 1919 in Kadijewka , Yekaterinoslav Governorate , Ukrainian SSR ; † November 2, 1994 in Sofia ) was a Bulgarian politician and prime minister .

Life

Studies, party official and imprisonment

Filipow spent his youth in the Ukraine and then graduated in mathematics and physics at the Kliment of Ohrid - Sofia University , which he with the graduation graduated.

As a student he was an active member of the Communist Youth Union. In 1940 he joined the then illegal Bulgarian Communist Party (BKP) ( Balgarska Komunisticeska Partija ) and in the same year became a member of the board of directors of the BKP in the Lovetsch Oblast .

During the reign of Tsar Boris III. he was sentenced to fifteen years in prison in 1941 for his prohibited communist activities.

After the coup of the Fatherland Front on September 9, 1944, he was released from prison and continued to work as an official.

People's Republic of Bulgaria

After the founding of the People's Republic of Bulgaria on September 15, 1946, he rose within the nomenklatura of the BKP and the government.

In 1947 he worked for the Ministry of Industry for a short time. Between 1948 and 1951 he then studied economics and trade in Moscow . After his return from the Soviet Union , he became an employee of the State Planning Commission in 1951 and its acting chairman from 1957 to 1958.

In 1958 he was elected as a candidate and then in 1962 as a member of the Central Committee (ZK) of the BKP. From 1962 to 1966 Filipov was again acting chairman of the State Planning Commission.

In 1966 he was elected a member of the 5th Grand National Assembly, to which he was a member until the 9th electoral term in 1990. At the same time he became chairman of the Economic Reform Commission in 1966 and as such also a member of the Council of Ministers. However, after the events of the Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia , this commission was dissolved again. Filipov remained a member of the Council of Ministers.

In 1971 he became secretary of the central committee of the BKP and a member of the newly created State Council . At the same time he was elected member of the Politburo of the Central Committee. Filipow belonged to the closest management body of the BKP.

Prime Minister and end of the People's Republic

On June 16, 1981 he was appointed by the Chairman of the Council of State and Secretary General of the Central Committee, Todor Zhivkov , to succeed Stanko Todorow as Chairman of the Council of Ministers. Despite this office, however, he lost his membership in the Politburo in 1982. During his tenure as prime minister, he mainly focused on reforming the economy while ignoring political reform.

On March 21, 1986 he was replaced by Georgi Atanasov in the office of Prime Minister . In his government he became chairman of the Commission for Socio-Economic Development . At the same time he was re-elected as a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee. On August 17, 1987, he submitted an economic reform plan to the Grand National Assembly, which parliament passed unanimously, especially since the economy had been in need of reform since the early 1980s.

On February 3, 1990, he lost his offices after the replacement of Prime Minister Atanasov. On April 24, 1990, he was expelled from the BKP, which was renamed to Balgarska Sozialistitscheska Partija (BSP).

After the founding of the Republic of Bulgaria on November 15, 1990, he was arrested and charged with misusing state funds. Filipov died in custody before the trial began.

Web links

• Biographical information in rulers.org

predecessor	Office	successor
Stanko Todorow	Prime Minister of Bulgaria 1981 - 1986	Georgi Atanasov