Petur Gabrovski
| Petar Gabrovski Петър Габровски |
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| Prime Minister of Bulgaria | |
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In office Acting: 9–14 September 1943 |
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| Monarch | Simeon II |
| Preceded by | Bogdan Filov |
| Succeeded by | Dobri Bozhilov |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Petar Dimitrov Gabrovski July 9, 1898 Razgrad, Kingdom of Bulgaria |
| Died | February 1, 1945 (aged 46) Sofia, Bulgaria |
| Nationality | Bulgarian |
| Political party | Ratniks of the Advancement of the Bulgarian National Spirit (1936-1944) |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
Petar Dimitrov Gabrovski (Bulgarian: Петър Димитров Габровски) (9 July 1898 – 1 February 1945) was a Bulgarian politician who briefly served as Prime Minister during the Second World War. Gabrovski was a lawyer by profession. He was also a member of the Grand Masonic Lodge of Bulgaria.
Gabrovski began his political career as a Nazi, forming his own movement the Ratniks of the Advancement of the Bulgarian National Spirit (Ratnitsi Napreduka na Bulgarshtinata) - more commonly known as Ratnik or the Ratnitsi. The group was virulently Anti-Semitic and was said to have links to Nazi Germany, although it failed to achieve anything approaching a mass following. In 1939 a law banning members of the group from government office was passed although it was not observed for long.
Gabrovski's political career took off in October 1939 when he was brought into the cabinet of Georgi Kyoseivanov as minister responsible for the railways, with his appointment to the cabinet seeing him resigning from the Ratnitsi. In the cabinet established by Bogdan Filov in 1940 he was promoted to the post of Minister of the Interior. The appointment had been made by King Boris III as an attempt to demonstrate to the Nazis that Bulgaria was largely favourable towards them. In this role Gabrovski was quick to enact laws limiting the role of Jews in Bulgarian life and expelled several hundred recently arrived Jews, who had hoped to gain entry into Mandatory Palestine from Bulgaria, forcing them to go to Turkey instead. His bill, the Law for the Defence of the Nation, was modelled on similar legislation in Nazi Germany.
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