Vladimir Mollow

Vladimir Mollow

Vladimir Dimitrov Mollow (also written Vladimir Dimitrov Mollov ; Bulgarian Владимир Димитров Моллов ; born July 16, 1873 in Kiev , Russian Empire (now Ukraine ), † April 29, 1935 in Sofia , Bulgaria ) was a Bulgarian politician of the Democratic Party and son of Politician Dimitar Mollow .

Vladimir Mollow was born on July 16, 1873 in Kiev in the family of Dimitar Mollow, who became a doctor and politician in Sofia after the liberation of Bulgaria from Ottoman-Turkish rule. Vladimir had a younger brother, Wasil Mollow, who was also a doctor.

In 1890 Vladimir Mollow graduated from the First Sofia High School and in 1894 Law from Moscow University. After several years of practical experience in Western Europe, he returned to Sofia, where he became a lecturer in criminal law at the Kliment Ohridski University in Sofia in 1900 . He remained a lecturer until his death, where he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Law between 1905 and 1906 and Professor in 1924. Since 1906 he was a member of the Bulgarian Literary Society (today's Bulgarian Academy of Sciences ).

As a politician of the Bulgarian Democratic Party, he was elected a member of parliament several times . Mollow was Minister of Education (1910-1911) in the second and Minister of Post, Railways and Telegraphs (1918) in the third cabinet of Aleksandar Malinov . After the June 9th putsch of 1923, Mollow was one of those politicians of the Democratic Party who joined forces with Andrei Lyaptschew to form Democratic Unity (bulg. Демократически сговор / Demokratitscheski Sgovor). Between 1926 and 1931 he was finance minister in Andrei Lyaptschew's cabinet. As such, he contributed significantly to the negotiations on the granting of the so-called refugee loan , which was supposed to help the Kingdom of Bulgaria , which was overcrowded with refugees from the First World War , the so-called stabilization loan, which was supposed to consolidate the state budget and the Mollow-Kaphantaris agreement , which the financial side of the property and property of the displaced Bulgarians in Greece.

Vladimir Mollow died in Sofia on April 29, 1935.

literature

• Tschew, Tascho: The Minister of Bulgaria 1879-1999 (from the Bulgarian Министрите на България), София: АИ „Проф. Марин Дринов “, 1999 ISBN 978-954-430-603-8