Elena Lagadinova
Elena Lagadinowa ( Bulgarian Елена Лагадинова , born May 9, 1930 in Raslog , Bulgaria ; † October 29, 2017 in Sofia ) was a Bulgarian resistance fighter , agricultural biologist and politician .
Life
Two of her three brothers were the partisan , lawyer and politician Kostadin Atanasow Lagadinow (Костадин Лагадинов; 1913-2011) and the politician Asen Lagadinow (Асен Лагадинов; 1919-1944). During the Second World War , Tsarist Bulgaria sided with the Axis powers . The resistance movement of the Fatherland Front was formed against the Tsar and his government . In May 1944, gendarmes destroyed the house of the Lagadinov family. The middle brother Asen was brutally murdered. Elena Lagadinova went underground at the age of 14 and is considered the youngest partisan in the country. She was nicknamed " Amazon " (Амазонка).
After the war, Lagadinova married a fellow soldier and went to study in the Soviet Union . She received her PhD in agricultural biology. Then she works at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in the field of plant genetics . Lagadinova was engaged in breeding hybrids of wheat . In 1959 she was awarded the Order of Saints Cyril and Methodius for her research.
In the 1960s, Lagadinova was convinced to get involved in Bulgarian women's politics. In 1968 she became President of the Committee of the Bulgarian Women's Movement in 1968 and a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party three years later . She held the presidency of the women's committee for 22 years, until the committee was dissolved in 1990. Around 1975 Bulgaria received one of the most advanced social systems for women in a world comparison. This included the generous granting of maternity leave .
Lagadinova headed the Bulgarian delegation to the first UN World Conference on Women in Mexico City in 1975. During the subsequent "UN Decade of Women" (1976–1985), she forged many international alliances around the globe and took relationships by the hundreds Women's organizations. The Third UN World Conference on Women in Nairobi elected Lagadinova as general rapporteur in 1985. She was then a member of the Board of Trustees of the United Nations Institute for Training Women (instraw) until 1988 . Activists from Lusaka to Los Angeles testify that Lagadinova was a pragmatist
The Claremont Graduate School in California awarded Lagadinova in 1991 with the Presidential Medal of Outstanding Achievement.
Web links
- Kristen Ghodsee : Bulgaria's guerrilla girl . In: Anthropology-News (from April 24, 2015; PDF 869 kB; English)
- Kristen R. Ghodsee: The Youngest Partisan. In: Jacobin Magazine. January 12, 2017, accessed October 31, 2019 .
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lagadinova, Elena |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lagadinova, Elena; Лагадинова, Елена (Bulgarian spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bulgarian partisan, agricultural biologist and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 9, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Raslog , Bulgaria |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 29, 2017 |
| Place of death | Sofia , Bulgaria |