Konstantin Muraviev

Konstantin Muraviev

Konstantin Wladow Muraviev ( Bulgarian Константин Владов Муравиев ; born March 5, 1893 in Pazardzhik , † January 31, 1965 in Sofia ) was a Bulgarian politician and Prime Minister .

biography

Family, studies and professional career

The nephew of Prime Minister Aleksandar Stambolijski , who was murdered in 1923, studied at the American Robert College in Istanbul , which he graduated in 1912, and at which other Bulgarian Prime Ministers such as Konstantin Stoilow , Todor Ivanchev and Ivan Geschow had previously studied.

During the Balkan Wars of 1912 and 1913 and the First World War , he was stationed as a soldier in Sofia .

In 1918 he became a member of the Bulgarian National Peasant Union (Българският земеделски народен съюз) , which was the most influential political party between 1900 and 1923. He then became the private secretary of his uncle, who became Prime Minister on October 6, 1919. During his tenure he became an official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, for which he worked abroad as a consul in Rotterdam and in Turkey .

MP, Minister and Prime Minister 1944

In 1923 he was first elected a member of the National Assembly. On March 12, 1923, his uncle appointed him Minister of War in his cabinet. However, he lost this office after the coup on June 9, 1923, during which his uncle was murdered.

From 1927 he was re-elected as a member of the 12th National Assembly, to which he also belonged in the following electoral term until 1934. During these years he was in the governments of the Peasant Union from June 29, 1931 to December 31, 1932 Minister of Education and Science in the cabinets of Aleksandar Malinov and Nikola Muschanow . The latter then appointed him Minister of Agriculture and Forests, which he remained until the end of Muschanov's term of office on May 19, 1934.

On September 2, 1944, he was appointed Prime Minister by the Regency Council at the request of the Western Allies as the successor to Ivan Ivanov Bagryanov , after the Allies had rejected Bagrjanov's advances. On September 5, 1944 , he ratified a law by which the previous legal losses of the Jews should be repealed. Three days later he declared war on the previously allied German Reich . During his tenure, he also took on the post of Foreign Minister.

However, on September 9, 1944, after the invasion of the Red Army , his government was overthrown by the resistance movement of the Fatherland Front . His pro-Anglo-American government came under criticism not only from the communist movement, but also from the newly formed government in exile in the areas controlled by Germany , which advocated loyalty to the German Reich and the one with it Alliance and was led by former Prime Minister Alexander Zankow . Unlike many contemporaries, Muraviev escaped sentencing to death . He was sentenced to life in prison and remained in prison until 1955. He was arrested again a year later and sent to Belene Labor Camp , where he remained until 1961. In 1996 the verdict against him was overturned by the Bulgarian Supreme Court.

In 1963 he published a book on Bulgarian politics under the title Събития и хора ( Eng .: Events and People ).

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Web links

• Biography information in rulers.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Outlook Bad", article in TIME magazine from September 11, 1944
2. ↑ "Model Armistace" article in TIME magazine on September 25, 1944

predecessor	Office	successor
Ivan Ivanov Bagryanov	Prime Minister of Bulgaria 1944	Kimon Georgiev