Stepan Shaprachikov was in the Diplomatic Corps, serving in Belgrade, Bucareşti, Paris, Berlin, and Constantinople. He set up shop in Berlin in 1930 as a tobacco exporter where he became a Nazi supporter. Shaprachikov served as Honorary President of the Bulgarian Olympic Committee from 1929 and was President of the Bulgarian Skiing Union from 1931, holding both positions until his death. He was co-opted onto the IOC in October 1929, and with Karl, Ritter von Halt, was one of two IOC Members to attend the 50th anniversary meeting of the IOC at Lausanne in 1944. Later in 1944 Soviet troops occupied Bulgaria and Shaprachikov realized that his past sympathies with the Nazi cause would likely be held against him, and thus committed suicide at his home in southern Bulgaria.
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