Stanko Todorow

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Stanko Todorow

Stanko Georgiev Todorow ( Bulgarian : Станко Георгиев Тодоров; born December 10, 1920 in Klenowik , Pernik Oblast ; † December 17, 1996 in Sofia ) was a Bulgarian politician , Prime Minister , President of Parliament and President .

Life

Functionary and resistance fighter in World War II

After attending school, he initially found no work and in 1936 he joined the Communist Youth League, which was illegal at the time. From 1940 to 1941 he was a member of the leadership of the communist union . In 1941 he became a member of the Sofia Oblast Youth League Committee .

A short time later he was called up for military service, from which he deserted a little later . He then joined the resistance movement against the pro-German government of Bogdan Filow during the Second World War . During this time he was an envoy of the Youth League on the staff of the Partisan Combat Group in the Sofia area . In 1943 he was accepted as a member of the Bulgarian Communist Party ( Balgarska Komunisticeska Partija (BKP)).

In February 1944 he was injured in a battle and taken prisoner. On March 30, 1944, however, he managed to escape, after which he immediately rejoined the resistance group. On September 9, 1944, he took part in the Putsch on the Patriotic Front. The subsequently installed government of the Patriotic Front of Kimon Georgiev managed to conclude an armistice through negotiations in Moscow .

In 1945 he became a member of the Central Committee of the Youth League and its secretary in Sofia.

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 1950 he became a member of the committee of the BKP of Sofia Oblast . In 1952 he was appointed Minister of Agriculture in the government of Wulko Chervenkov . He also held this office in the subsequent government of Anton Yugov until 1957.

In 1954 he was elected a member of the 2nd Grand National Assembly, to which he was a member until the 9th parliamentary term in 1990. In the same year he was also elected a member of the Central Committee (ZK) of the BKP. In 1959 he was elected as a candidate for the Politburo of the Central Committee and appointed chairman of the State Planning Commission .

In 1962 he became Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers and a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee. He was thus a member of the closest management committee of the BKP.

Minister, Parliament and President

On July 17, 1971, he succeeded Todor Zhivkov , who was chairman of the State Council , chairman of the Council of Ministers . He held this office until he was replaced by the previous Central Committee Secretary Grischa Filipow on June 17, 1981. President Zhivkov wanted to advance the necessary economic reforms through this. Todorow himself became chairman of the Grand National Assembly and thus transferred to the representative office of parliamentary president.

He later used this office intensively to achieve the reform process of perestroika and glasnost begun in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Gorbachev in Bulgaria as well, and thus belonged to the reform-oriented wing within the BKP. He played a decisive role in the ousting of Todor Zhivkov on November 17, 1989.

After the reform process had started, he resigned as President of Parliament on April 3, 1990. On April 24, 1990, he joined the BKP, renamed to Balgarska Sozialistitscheska Partija (BSP), and remained its vice-president until 1994.

On July 6, 1990, after the resignation of Petar Mladenow, he became provisional president . After only eleven days in office, he handed over the office to Nikolai Todorov for a fortnight . In the first free elections in 1990 he was elected a member of the National Assembly, but soon retired from political life for health reasons.

In 1994, like many other leaders of the Zhivkov era, he was charged with corruption and misappropriation of public funds, but was acquitted by the Supreme Court in 1996.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bulgarian Primeminister Is Reported Replaced. Article in The New York Times, June 17, 1981
predecessor Office successor
Nikola Stoilow Minister of Agriculture of Bulgaria
1952–1957 		Ivan Pramov
Todor Zhivkov Prime Minister of Bulgaria
1971–1981 		Grisha Filipov
Petar Mladenow President of Bulgaria
1990 		Nikolay Todorov
personal data
SURNAME Todorow, Stanko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Todorow, Stanko Georgiev; Тодоров, Станко Георгиев (Bulgarian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian politician and Prime Minister, Parliament and State President
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Klenowik , Pernik Oblast
DATE OF DEATH December 17, 1996
Place of death Sofia