Kalin Georgiev Naydenov

 

 

Shiroka laka, Smolyan 18.02.1865 – Sofia 16.04.1925, in the St. Nedelya Communist bomb attempt

Education

School in Shiroka laka and Plovdiv; Teacher (1879-1881); Sofia Military School (1885); Military Academy in Torino, Italy (1888-1891); Course for quick-firing guns in France (1905).

Military service

1885

11.1885

 

1886

1887 – 1888

1888 – 1891

1892 – 1894

 

1894

 

5.05.1895

 

1899

09.10.1901

1905

19.06.1908

1912

19.10.1913

21.09.1915

21.06.1918

25.06.1918

20.10.1918

Sofia Military School

Commander of the 6th half-battery in the 1st artillery regiment during the war with Serbia, wounded at Slivinitsa

Adjutant in the 1st artillery regiment

3rd artillery regiment

Military Academy in Torino, Italy

Sent in Germany, France and Great Britain in order to find modern weapons for Bulgarian artillery

Commander of the 4th mountain battery in the 4th artillery regiment and teacher in Sofia Military School

Head of the artillery arsenal in Sofia – introduced some changes in the 150mm Schneider howitzer adopted by the Bulgarian Army in 1897

Commander of a division in the 4th artillery regiment

Chief of the Technical Department of the Artillery Inspection

Practical course of fire at Poitiers, France

Commander of the 2nd artillery regiment

Deputy chief of the artillery in the General Staff of the Field Army

Artillery Inspector

Minister of War

Left the post of Minister of War

General for special purpose within the War Ministry

Retired

Biographical data

10.1921

16.06.1924

Sentenced to fifteen years’ imprisonment as guilty for the “third national catastrophe”

Amnestied

Military Ranks

30.08.1885 06.05.1887 18.05.1890 02.08.1895 02.05.1902 19.09.1906 14.02.1914 30.05.1917

2nd Lieutenant

Lieutenant

Captain

Major

Lieutenant Colonel

Colonel

Major General

Lieutenant General

Remarks

Biography, picture and detailed bibliography at Boinaslava in Dibo’s bio.