Bogdan Filov

Bogdan Filov

Bogdan Dimitrov Filov ( _bg. Богдан Димитров Филов) (9 April 18832 February 1945) became a powerful politician and was Prime Minister of Bulgaria during World War II. During his service, Bulgaria became the seventh nation to join the Axis Powers.

Early life

Born in Stara Zagora, Filov was partly educated in Imperial Germany at Leipzig, Freiburg and Bonn, and later became a professor of archeology, and of art history, at the University of Sofia.

Prime Minister

On 15 February 1940, following the resignation of Georgi Kyoseivanov, Filov was appointed Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Bulgaria. Filov was an ally of Tsar Boris III. On 7 September, Bulgaria was awarded the southern part of Dobruja by the Treaty of Craiova.

On New Year's Day in 1941, Filov and his wife travelled to Vienna, at that time a part of Nazi Germany known as the "Ostmark" (the Anschluss having earlier incorporated Austria into Germany). Though the purpose was, ostensibly, so that Filov could be treated for ulcers by Dr. Hans Eppinger, Filov met in Vienna with German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. Soon German advisers arrived in Bulgaria. [ "Bogdan Philoff", in "Current Biography 1941", pp. 667-668] A "Law for the Defence of the Nation" went into effect on 23 January, restricting the rights of Bulgarian Jews [ Madus I. Madlarsky, "The Killing Tr
] .

On 14 February, Bulgaria signed a non-aggression pact with the Axis powers and on 1 March joined the Tripartite Pact. On Bulgaria's Independence Day, March 3, German troops crossed into Bulgaria on the way to invade the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the Kingdom of Greece.

Though a titular member of the Axis, Bulgaria stayed out of the war as much as possible during the regime of King Boris and Premier Filov. After the death of Boris in 1943, Filov became a member of the Regency Council established because the new Tsar, Simeon II, was underage.

Death

Following the armistice with the Soviet Union whose forces had entered Bulgaria in 1944, a new Communist-dominated government was established and the Regency Council members were arrested. Filov and ninety-two other public officials were sentenced to death by a "People's Tribunal" on the afternoon of 1 February 1945 and executed by firing squad that night in Sofia cemetery. They were then buried in a mass grave that had been a bomb crater. The former professor was described in one obituary as a man who had mistakenly "preferred making history to teaching it." [ "100 Death Sentences", "TIME" Magazine, February 12, 1945 ]

ee also

* Vienna Awards
* Military history of Bulgaria during World War II

References

* "Bulgaria in the Second World War" by Marshall Lee Miller, Stanford University Press, 1975.
* "Royalty in Exile" by Charles Fenyvesi, London, 1981, pps:153-171 - "Czar Simeon of the Bulgars". ISBN 978-0-86051-131-1
* "Boris III of Bulgaria 1894-1943", by Pashanko Dimitroff, London, 1986, ISBN 978-0-86332-140-5
* "Crown of Thorns" by Stephane Groueff, Lanham MD., and London, 1987, ISBN 978-0-8191-5778-2


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