Teodor Teodorow

Teodor Teodorow

Teodor Ivanovich Teodorow ( Bulgarian Теодор Теодоров ; born April 8, 1859 in Elena , † August 5, 1924 in Borowez , near Samokow ) was a Bulgarian politician and prime minister .

Studies and professional career

After attending school, he studied law at the universities of Odessa and Paris . After completing his studies in 1886, he worked as a lawyer .

MP and Minister

Teodorow began his political career in 1894 when he was elected member of the National Assembly, of which he was a member until 1923. In his first election he was President of the National Assembly from October 15, 1894 to October 10, 1896.

In addition, he was appointed Minister of Justice in Konstantin Stoilov's cabinet on February 22, 1896 . He held this office until September 7, 1897. Subsequently, he was appointed Minister of Finance for the first time by Stoilow and held this office until January 30, 1899.

After leaving the Cabinet, he first became Public Prosecutor (Public Prosecutor) at the District Court of Sofia and then a judge at the Court of Appeal . During this time he was also a member of a judicial reform commission, which in 1911 decided to introduce administrative procedural law and set up a Supreme Administrative Court.

On March 29, 1911, he was reappointed finance minister by Ivan Geschow in his cabinet. After the end of his reign on June 14, 1913, he also took over this office in the interim government of Stojan Danew, which only held office until July 17, 1913 .

Prime Minister from 1918 to 1919

After the end of the First World War he was appointed Prime Minister on November 28, 1918 as the successor to Aleksandar Malinov himself. He held this office until October 6, 1919, during which time he also held the office of Minister for Foreign Affairs and Religions. In this office he had been a member of the previous cabinet since October 17, 1918.

As Prime Minister he was the head of the Bulgarian delegation at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 , at which the Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine was concluded on November 27, 1919 after the end of his term of office , which limited the strength of the Bulgarian army to 20,000 soldiers. Bulgaria also had to cede several smaller areas in the west to Yugoslavia . In addition, the Bulgarian-ruled part of Thrace fell to Greece ( Western Thrace ).

Subsequently, he largely withdrew from politics, but in June 1923 took part in the preparations for the coup d'état against his successor as Prime Minister Aleksandar Stambolijski .

literature

• Teodor Teodorow . In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg, Eugen Fahlstedt (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 28 : Syrten-vikarna – Tidsbestämning . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1919, Sp. 868 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).

Web links

• Biographical information in rulers.org
• Bulgaria 1918-1926

Individual evidence

1. ^ President of the National Assembly
2. ^ History of the Supreme Administrative Court ( Memento of the original dated February 6, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

predecessor	Office	successor
Aleksandar Malinov	Prime Minister of Bulgaria 1918–1919	Aleksandar Stambolijski

predecessor	Office	successor
Aleksandar Malinov	Foreign Minister of the Kingdom of Bulgaria October 17, 1918 - October 6, 1919	Mikhail Majarov