Anton Ivanov Kosinarov

Anton Ivanov monument in front of the municipal administration in Koprivshtitsa

Anton Ivanov Kosinarow ( Bulgarian Антон Иванов Козинаров ; born October 26, 1884 in Kopriwschtiza , † July 23, 1942 in Sofia ) was a Bulgarian communist politician and trade unionist .

Life

Ivanov, the son of a poor farmer, first worked as a worker in Sofia after completing elementary school. From 1902 to 1907 he attended the Naval School in Varna . In 1904 he joined the Bulgarian Social Democratic Labor Party (Engsozialisten) (BSDAP). From 1907 to 1919 he was the secretary of the metal workers' union and editor-in-chief of their newspaper " Металоработник " ( Metalorabotnik ; German metal workers). Ivanov was also a member of the central management of the General Trade Union Confederation ( Общ работнически синдикален съюз ).

From 1910 he was a member of the Sofia Committee of the BSDAP (narrow socialists). Ivanov took part in the soldiers' uprising in Vladaya in the autumn of 1918. From 1918 to 1923 he was secretary of the Sofia city and district organization of the Bulgarian Communist Party (BKP). From 1919 to 1923 he was a member of the National Assembly . Ivanov took part in the trade union conference of the Balkan countries in Sofia on November 3 and 4, 1920, chaired by Georgi Dimitrov . Delegations from Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Romania founded the Balkan-Danube Trade Union Secretariat there, the south-east European regional organ of the International Council of Trade Unions and Production Associations, the predecessor of the Red Trade Union International . From 1922 until his death, Ivanov was a member of the central committee of the BKP. In 1923 he took an active part in the preparation of the September uprising in Sofia. He was arrested on September 21, 1923.

Imprisoned from 1923 to June 1925, he emigrated to the Soviet Union after his release . He worked in the foreign office of the BKP in Vienna and Berlin . From 1928 to 1930 he was a member of the Executive Committee of the Red Trade Union International . In 1931/1932 he attended the International Lenin School in Moscow and then taught as a lecturer at the Communist University of the National Minorities of the West "Julian Marchlewski" ( Russian Коммунистический университет национальных меньшальных меньшальных меньшинстворкед ваньшинстворкедиваманстворхедиваманстворкедиваменстворкед вамедивангедивамедив . Ivanov took part in the VII World Congress of the Comintern and was the organizer of the Bulgarian and Polish volunteer battalions of the International Brigades .

From 1935 to 1938 he was secretary of the central committee of the BKP. During the Second World War he returned illegally to Bulgaria in December 1940. In 1941 he became a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Workers' Party. He was arrested in April 1942 and then cruelly tortured. He was sentenced to death by a court martial in a trial against 60 members and employees of the central committee of the BKP on July 23, 1942, together with twelve other activists of the armed resistance, including Nikola Wapzarow , and on the same day shot .

Honors

• In several Bulgarian cities - including Burgas , Sliven and Vidin - streets are named after Ivanov.
• The Bulgarian Post issued special postage stamps in honor of Ivanov in 1951 and 1984 .
• The Watscha reservoir was called "Anton Ivanov" in communist times

literature

• Piero Malvezzi, Giovanni Pirelli (ed.): And the flame should not scorch you. Last letters from the European resistance condemned to death . Steinberg, Zurich 1955, p. 51.
• Васил Михайлов: Антон Иванов. Биографичен очерк . Изд. БКП, Sofia 1964 (Bulgarian).
• Entry: Иванов, Антон Козинаров . In: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (third edition, 1969–1978; Russian).
• Branko M. Lazić (Ed.): Biographical Dictionary of the Comintern . Hoover Press, Stanford 1986, ISBN 0817984011 , p. 195 (English).
• Мулен Куманов, Таня Николова: Политически партии, организации и движения в България и технити лид1999. Кратък справочник . Арианда, Sofia 1999, p. 263; (1991 edition online ; Bulgarian).