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Ferdinand Maximilian Charles
Leopold Marie, Tsar of Bulgaria
(02.26.1861 – 10.09.1948)
place of birth: Wien, Österreich (Vienna)
Bulgaria:
His Majesty; hon. Generalfeldmarschall
The Tsar of Bulgaria from 1908 to
1918, after being Bulgaria's ruling prince from 1887 to 1908. Ferdinand
I. was the grandnephew of Ernest I. of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, he was chosen
prince of Bulgaria after the enforced abdication of Prince Alexander.
In 1915 Ferdinand became Germany's ally in
hopes that he gain back most of Macedonia, which had been lost to
Serbia and Greece during the Second Balkan War of 1913.
Kaiser Wilhelm II. named him an honorary general
field marshal of the Prussian Army in January 1916. The tide
of war turned
against Bulgaria by 1917, however, and in September 1918 Bulgaria's
front crumbled before an Allied multi-national force. Ferdinand was
thus forced to abdicate in favor of his son, Boris III. and went into
exile, spending most of the rest of his life in Coburg, Germany. He
died there in September 1948 and is buried in St. Augustin’s Catholic
Church.
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