Kimon Georgiev

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Kimon Georgiev

Kimon Stojanow Georgiev ( Bulgarian : Кимон Георгиев; born August 11, 1882 in Pazardzhik , † September 28, 1969 in Sofia ) was a Bulgarian officer , politician and statesman .

biography

Military career, putschist

After attending school, he trained as an officer in the Bulgarian army . During the Balkan Wars of 1912/13 he rose to captain and head of a company . During the First World War he was promoted to major and commander of a battalion . In 1920 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel .

When coup of June 9, 1923 , in which the former Prime Minister Alexandar Stambolijski by Alexander Tsankov was overthrown and later died, Georgiev took a leading role. From January 4, 1926 to March 3, 1926 he was Minister of Transport in the government of Andrei Lyaptschew .

In 1930 he became a member of the right-wing authoritarian organization " Sweno " ("chain link"), which consisted mainly of officers , and which strived for an authoritarian government based on the system of corporatism .

Prime Minister from 1934 to 1935

In May 1934, alongside Colonel Damjan Weltschew, he was the leader of another coup against the government of Nikola Muschanow . Although Weltschew was the more influential leader of the "Sweno" and the participating military league, he left Georgiev the office of prime minister . Georgiev held this position from May 19, 1934 to January 22, 1935. In 1934 he temporarily took over the office of foreign minister.

During this time he implemented the interests of the "Sweno" with regard to an authoritarian state, the ban on political parties and the division of the population into professional groups (corporations), which led to the country that fell into anarchy after the September uprising of 1923 found, found stability and political reassurance. He also took up relations with the Soviet Union . His government also sought a new constitution that would drastically reduce the power of Tsar Boris III. provided. Georgiev himself strove to replace the tsarist empire with a republic . On January 22, 1935, Tsar Boris III entered. counteracted these efforts by firing Georgiev and instead appointing General Petar Ivanov Slatev as prime minister. Georgiev, Welschew and other representatives of the "Sweno" anticipated the threat of arrest by fleeing abroad. Although a court sentenced her to death in absentia, Georgiev returned to Bulgaria a short time later. Tsar Boris III, who opposed the death penalty , spoke out against the execution of the sentence and ordered the sentence to be converted to life imprisonment , from which Georgiev was released a few years later.

Second World War and Prime Minister from 1944 to 1946

During the Second World War Bulgaria was under the government of Bogdan Filow on the side of the Axis powers Germany , Italy and Japan . Georgiev himself was appointed colonel and commander of a regiment . Soon afterwards he joined the resistance movement of the Fatherland Front, which also included functionaries of the Bulgarian Communist Party (BKP) ( Balgarska Komunisticeska Partija ). After the Red Army invaded Bulgaria in September 1944, he was one of the leaders of the coup on the Patriotic Front that led to the overthrow of Konstantin Muraviev's interim government on September 9, 1944 .

Georgiev became the successor of Murawiev on September 9, 1944 himself Prime Minister . As such, he traveled to Moscow a short time later and signed an armistice agreement .

People's Republic of Bulgaria

After the founding of the People's Republic of Bulgaria on September 15, 1946, he remained Prime Minister for some time. However, the increasing influence of the BKP led to the incumbent president , Wassil Kolarow , dismissing him on November 23, 1946 and instead appointing Georgi Dimitrov, who had returned from exile in Moscow, as prime minister.

Dimitrov appointed him Deputy Prime Minister in his cabinet. He held this office until March 17, 1962, making him the only non-party member of the government.

At the same time he was foreign minister until December 11, 1947. He was then appointed Minister of Development and Public Transport in the Kolarov Cabinet. A position he also maintained in the subsequent government Chervenkov until 5 February 1951. From February 5, 1951 until March 16, 1959, he was in the government of Anton Jugow Development Minister. From March to November 1959 he chaired the Committee for Construction and Architecture.

From 1962 until his death he was a member of the Presidium of the National Assembly.

Awards

Georgiev was awarded three times the order "Georgi Dimitrov" and the order " Hero of Socialist Work " for his political activities in the People's Republic of Bulgaria .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ One Strike And Out. Article in TIME magazine on September 18, 1944
  2. ↑ Model Armistace. Article in TIME magazine on September 25, 1944
  3. ↑ Government reshuffle of March 17, 1962  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / files.osa.ceu.hu  
  4. ^ Bulgarian key ministries
  5. ↑ Alexander Berkman: Bulgaria - A New Spain. Communist terror in Bulgaria ( Memento from February 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
predecessor Office successor
Nikola Muschanov Foreign Minister of the Kingdom of Bulgaria
May 19, 1934 - May 23, 1934 		Konstantin Batolow
Georgi Kulishev Foreign Minister of the Kingdom of Bulgaria
November 22, 1946 - December 11, 1947 		Wassil Kolarov
Nikola Muschanov Prime Minister of Bulgaria
1934–1935 		Petar Ivanov Slatev
Konstantin Wladow Muraview Prime Minister of Bulgaria
1944–1946 		Georgi Dimitrov
personal data
SURNAME Georgiev, Kimon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Georgiev, Kimon Stoyanov (full name); Георгиев, Кимон (Bulgarian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian politician and prime minister
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Pazardzhik
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1969
Place of death Sofia