Todor Lukanov

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Todor Stantschew Lukanow ( Bulgarian Тодор Станчев Луканов ; born December 1, 1874 in Lovech ; † February 17, 1946 in Moscow ) was a Bulgarian politician.

Life

Lukanov was studying in Geneva Law and was then in Pleven as a lawyer working. In 1897 his son Karlo Lukanow , later Bulgaria's foreign minister, was born. In Pleven he founded a social democratic organization. From 1911 he was a member of the Central Control Commission of the Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers' Party . From 1913 to 1923 he was a member of the Bulgarian National Assembly for four legislative terms . During the First World War , he was sentenced to prison for anti-war propaganda. In 1919 he became a member of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party . From 1922 he was then secretary of the Central Committee. In 1923 he emigrated to the Soviet Union . There he became a member of the CPSU . In 1938 his grandson Andrei Lukanov was born in Moscow . He was later Prime Minister of Bulgaria.

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