Atanas Georgiev Semerdzhiev was a Bulgarian senior colonel, statesman and politician.
19 Facts About Atanas Semerdzhiev
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Atanas Semerdzhiev is the longest-serving Chief of the General Staff of the BNA, first deputy minister of defence, member of the Central Committee of the BKP and the Supreme Council of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, Minister of Interior, first Vice President of Bulgaria elected by the National Assembly.
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Atanas Semerdzhiev is the author of memoirs and military-theoretical works.
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Atanas Semerdzhiev was born on May 21,1924, in the village of Ladzhene, today a district of Velingrad.
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Atanas Semerdzhiev studied at the Pazardzhik High School, where he has been an active member of the Workers' Youth Union since 1939.
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Atanas Semerdzhiev has an incomplete general - secondary real education.
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Atanas Semerdzhiev was detained by the police in October 1941 with a group of comrades, but did not testify.
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Atanas Semerdzhiev went out illegally from December 16,1941, and from April 1942 he was a partisan in the Rhodope partisan unit "Anton Ivanov".
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Atanas Semerdzhiev received a high school diploma in Pazardzhik and again entered service in the Bulgarian army.
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Atanas Semerdzhiev remained in this position until November 1952, when he was appointed Deputy Chief of the Operational Directorate of the General Staff for Operational Training and Control.
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From November 5,1962, Lieutenant-General Semerdzhiev was a candidate member of the Central Committee of the BKP and first deputy minister of national defense.
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Atanas Semerdzhiev was appointed Minister of Internal Affairs in the government of Georgi Atanasov.
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Atanas Semerdzhiev held the post of Minister of Internal Affairs again under the next government - the first government of Andrey Lukanov.
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Atanas Semerdzhiev was dismissed from the Bulgarian Army with the rank of colonel general.
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Atanas Semerdzhiev's name appears in Decision No 14 of September 4,2007, of the same commission.
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Atanas Semerdzhiev was placed under house arrest, which lasted for two and a half years, after which the measure ended being replaced by signature and money guarantee.
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Atanas Semerdzhiev's other sister is a member of the DKMS.
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Atanas Semerdzhiev's wife comes from an official family and is Jewish by nationality.
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Atanas Semerdzhiev's father is a teacher, and her mother is a pharmacist - a member of the BKP.