From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dimitar Nikolov Petkov
(
Bulgarian
:
Димитър Петков
) (2 November 1858,
Tulcea
– 11 March 1907,
Sofia
) was a leading member of the Bulgarian
People's Liberal Party
and the country's
Prime Minister
from 5 November 1906 until he was assassinated in Sofia the following year.
A veteran of the
Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878
he fought for the
Russian Imperial Army
at the
Battle of Shipka Pass
where he lost an arm during the combat.
[1]
Petkov spent five years (1888?1893) as
mayor of Sofia
and during his time in charge he undertook an extensive
redevelopment of the city
.
[2]
Following the death of
Stefan Stambolov
in 1895 he took over as leader of People's Liberal Party, a role he held until his own death when
Nikola Genadiev
succeeded him.
[3]
Petkov's party took office in 1903 following the resignation of
Stoyan Danev
but
Ferdinand I of Bulgaria
chose a non-party Prime Minister, his close friend
Racho Petrov
, instead of Petkov.
[4]
Petkov was finally appointed Prime Minister in November 1906, but held the post for only a few months; on 11 March 1907, he was assassinated by gunshot in
Sofia
's
Tsar Osvoboditel Boulevard
by Aleksandar Petrov, a disgruntled former employee of the Bulgarian Agricultural Bank. Petrov was put on trial, handed a death sentence and executed by hanging in July 1907.
[5]
His son
Nikola Petkov
was also a politician in post-war Bulgaria before being put to death in 1947.
[6]
References
[
edit
]
- ^
Thomas McGonigle,
The corpse dream of N. Petkov
, Northwestern University Press, 2000, p. 29
- ^
Duncan M. Perry,
Stefan Stambolov and the emergence of modern Bulgaria, 1870-1895
, Duke University Press, 1993, p. 185
- ^
R. J. Crampton,
Bulgaria
, Oxford University Press, 2007, p. 451
- ^
R. J. Crampton,
A concise history of Bulgaria
, Cambridge University Press, 2005, p. 127
- ^
Markov, Georgi (2003).
Покушения, насилие и политика в България 1878 ? 1947
. Sofia: Military Publishing House. pp. 104?116.
- ^
Joseph Rothschild,
The Communist party of Bulgaria: origins and development, 1883-1936
, AMS Press, 1972, p. 37
