Georgi Kyoseivanov

Георги Кьосеиванов27th Prime Minister of BulgariaIn office
23 November 1935 – 16 February 1940MonarchBoris IIIPreceded byAndrey ToshevSucceeded byBogdan Filov Personal detailsBorn19 January 1884
Peshtera, Eastern RumeliaDied27 July 1960(1960-07-27) (aged 76)
SwitzerlandPolitical partyNon-Party

Georgi Ivanov Kyoseivanov (Bulgarian: Георги Иванов Кьосеиванов; 19 January 1884 – 27 July 1960) was a Bulgarian politician who was Prime Minister from 1935 until 1940.

Kyoseivanov came to power on 23 November 1935 after a period in which the country had had three Prime Ministers in quick succession. He went on to become the longest-serving PM since Andrey Lyapchev and throughout the period of his administration he also held the post of Foreign Minister.^[1] The government oversaw the trials of the instigators of the 1934 military coup and also concluded pacts with Yugoslavia and Greece as Nazi Germany undertook a policy of economic isolation of the Balkans.^[2] His government also oversaw a policy of rearmament after a treaty concluded with Ioannis Metaxas overturned the military clauses of the Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine and the Treaty of Lausanne.^[3] Despite this Kyoseivanov's government was seen as little more than a puppet of Tsar Boris and, although it lasted until 1940, achieved little other than allowing the Tsar to effectively govern as a dictator.

In 1940 he became ambassador to Switzerland where he remained after the 1944 coup in Bulgaria.

References

External links

• Newspaper clippings about Georgi Kyoseivanov in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW

Political offices
Preceded by Andrey Toshev	Prime Minister of Bulgaria 1935–1940	Succeeded by Bogdan Filov