Ferdinand Kozovski
Ferdinand Todorov Kozovski (
Chairman of the National Assembly of Bulgaria from 1950 to 1965.[1]
Born in Knezha in the Principality of Bulgaria's northwest, Ferdinand Kozovski graduated from the Reserve Officers Academy. He became a member of the Bulgarian Workers' Social Democratic Party (Narrow Socialists), the precursor to the Bulgarian Communist Party, in 1911. Kozovski took part in the Balkan Wars[2] and World War I as a serviceman in the Bulgarian Army; after the wars, he graduated in law from Sofia University.[3]
In 1923, Kozovski was among the leaders of the quickly-crushed
M. V. Frunze Military Academy and became a reader of military science at the Communist University of the National Minorities of the West.[3]
Ferdinand Kozovski took part in the
9 September coup d'état. As Bulgaria switched allegiance to the Allies and took part in the ultimate defeat of Nazi Germany, Kozovski was assistant chief of staff of the Bulgarian forces which drew the Nazis out of much of Yugoslavia and Hungary.[3]
After the war, Ferdinand Kozovski was made Assistant Minister of Popular Defence. In 1948–1949, he was Bulgarian
National Assembly of Bulgaria and served as such during four national assembly terms until 1965,[1] when he died.[3]
References
- ^ a b "Chronology". National Assembly of the Republic of Bulgaria. Retrieved 2009-04-11.
- ^ a b Пекунов, Стоян (2007-04-02). "От България, сър, от Кнежа..." (in Bulgarian). Дума. Retrieved 2009-04-11. [dead link]
- ^ ISBN 954528613X.
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