Racho Petrov

Tags: Prime Minister.

Racho Petrov Stoyanov (Bulgarian: Рачо Петров Стоянов) (3 March 1861 in Shumen – 22 January 1942) was a leading Bulgarian general and politician.A talented soldier Petrov was appointed to be Chief of General Staff at the age of 24 and was Minister of Defence at 27.During the First World War he served as Chief of the 4th Army.As a politician he twice served as Prime Minister of Bulgaria as the non-party head of an interim administration and then for a longer period from 1903–1906 having been appointed for fear of war after a Bulgarian insurrection in Ottoman Macedonia.

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active years end date

1887-04-29, 1887-09-01, 1894-04-15, 1896-11-29, 1901-03-04, 1901-03-05, 1906-11-04, 1906-11-05

active years start date

1885-09-09, 1887-07-10, 1887-10-23, 1894-04-27, 1900-12-10, 1901-01-21, 1901-01-25, 1903-05-18, 1903-05-19

battle

First Balkan War, Second Balkan War, Balkans Campaign (World War I), Serbo-Bulgarian War

birth date

1861-03-03

birth place

Ottoman Empire, Shumen

country

Bulgarian Land Forces

death date

1942-01-22

death place

Bulgaria, Belovo Bulgaria

monarch

Alexander of Battenberg, Ferdinand I of Bulgaria

order in office

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Interior, Chief of the General Staff, 12th Prime Minister of Bulgaria, War Minister

service end year

1917-01-01T00:00:00+02:00

service start year

1878-01-01T00:00:00+02:00

successor

Nikola Ivanov, Petko Karavelov, Sava Mutkurov, Dimitar Petkov, Stoyan Danev, Mihail_Sarafov, Stefan_Paprikov