Grisha Filipov
Georgi ( Grisha ) Stanschew Filipow (Bulgarian: Георги ( Гриша ) Станчев Филипов ) ( born July 13, 1919 in Kadiewka (Ukraine ); † November 2, 1994 in Sofia) was a Bulgarian politician and Prime Minister.
Life
Study, party official and detention
Filipow spent his youth in the Ukraine and then earned a degree in mathematics and physics at the Kliment of Ohrid - Sofia University, which he completed with graduation.
Already as a student he was an active member of the Communist Youth Union. In 1940 he joined the then illegal Bulgarian Communist Party ( BKP ) ( Balgarska Komunisticeska Partija ) and was in the same year a member of the Board of BKP in the Oblast Lovech.
During the reign of Tsar Boris III. He was sentenced in 1941 for his communist activities prohibited to a fifteen- year sentence.
After the coup, the Fatherland Front of 9 September 1944, he was released from prison and continued his official activity.
People's Republic of Bulgaria
After the founding of the People's Republic of Bulgaria on 15 September 1946, he rose to within the nomenklatura of the BCP and the government.
In 1947, he was initially for a short time employee of the Ministry of Industry. Between 1948 and 1951 he completed then a study of economics and trade in Moscow. After his return from the Soviet Union 1951, he was an employee of the State Planning Commission and from 1957 to 1958 the acting chairman.
In 1958 he was elected candidates and then in 1962 as a member of the Central Committee ( CC) of the BCP. From 1962 to 1966 Filipow is again acting chairman of the State Planning Commission.
In 1966 he was elected a deputy of the fifth Grand National Assembly, which he then belonged to the 9th election period in 1990. At the same time, he became in 1966 chairman of the Economic Reform Commission and, as such, a member of the Council of Ministers. After the events of the Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia, this Commission was dissolved. Filipow remained a member of the Council of Ministers.
In 1971 he became secretary of the Central Committee of the BCP and member of the newly created State Council. At the same time he was elected member of the Politburo of the Central Committee. This Filipow belonged to the closest governing body of the BKP.
Prime Minister and the end of the People's Republic of
On 16 June 1981 he was appointed by the Chairman of the State Council and Secretary General of the Central Committee, Todor Zhivkov, succeeding Stanko Todorov as Chairman of the Council of Ministers. In spite of this office he lost in 1982 its membership in the Politburo. During his tenure as Prime Minister, he focused mainly on the reform of the economy, while he let political reforms in mind.
On March 21, 1986, he was succeeded in the office of Prime Minister Georgi Atanasov. In his reign, he was Chairman of the Commission for Socio-economic developments. At the same time he was re-elected as a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee. On August 17, 1987, he laid the Grand National Assembly the Economic reform plan, which has been unanimously approved by Parliament, especially as the economy was in need of reform since the early 1980s.
On February 3, 1990, he lost to the replacement of Prime Minister Atanassow his offices. On April 24, 1990, he was expelled from the Balgarska to Sozialistitscheska Partija (BSP ) renamed BKP.
After the founding of the Republic of Bulgaria on 15 November 1990, he was arrested and charged with misuse of public funds. However Filipow died before the trial started in detention.