Georgi Kondolov
Georgi Kondolow ( Bulgarian Георги Кондолов ; * 1858 in Potirnak, today Welika in Bulgaria ; † August 6, 1903 in Paspalowo, today Armutveren in Turkey ) was a Bulgarian revolutionary , freedom fighter, voivode of the BMARK ( Bulgarian Macedonian- Adrian-Adrian / Revolutionary Committee Македоно-Одрински революционни комитети ) and one of the leaders of the Ilinden-Preobraschenie uprising in the “7th revolutionary region ”, which included Eastern Thrace .
Life
Earlier years
Georgi Kondolow was born in Poturnak (today Welika in the municipality of Tsarevo ) on the Black Sea in 1858 into a very poor family. His birth name, however, was Scheljasko (Bulgarian Желязко), but he was later called by his older brother Ivan, Georgi. Georgi had to leave the city at a very young age and work to feed his family. He was sent to Constantinople, where he got by as a carpenter's assistant.
In 1878 Bulgaria was liberated in the course of the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878) and the subsequent Peace of San Stefano . In the same year, however, Bulgaria was divided in the Berlin Congress, so that the autonomous Ottoman province of Eastern Rumelia was established. Georgi Kondolow subsequently settled in the east Rumelian city of Chaskowo , where he met Christo Arnaudow. With him he opened a carpentry shop. Here he met his future wife Donka Hubenowa, a cousin of Arnaudow.
He took part as a volunteer against the rebellious Muslim and Turkish minority in the Rhodope Mountains , who were against the separation of this area from the Ottoman Empire . During this time he was appointed voivode and later awarded the silver cross of merit by Prince Battenberg .
In 1898, a few years after he married Donka, he moved with his family to Burgas , where he also opened a carpentry workshop. Here he meets old friends from his not yet liberated homeland and from Constantinople . Together with them he joins the Macedonian Association "Pirin Mountains" (Bulgarian Македонското дружество "Пирин планина" / Makedonsko druzhestvo Pirin Planina). Together with other Thracian Bulgarians he founded a branch of the East Thracian Expellees Association "Strandscha" (Bulgarian Одринското преселенско дружество Странджа) on December 15, 1896 in Burgas. Georgi Kondolow participated as a delegate at the first congress of the Federation of East Thracian Expellees Associations on February 19, 1897 in Burgas. After the congress, Kondolov and Petko Wojwoda , Stojan Petrow and others founded the Secret Thracian Revolutionary Committee based on the model of the Internal Revolutionary Organization . The committee was supposed to organize the preparation and dispatch of armed partisan units ( Tscheta ) to the Bulgarian areas still under Ottoman rule.
Armed resistance in Thrace
In 1899 Kondolov became the head of a Macedonian-Adrianople committee . In early 1901 he commandeered young men in the area around Jasna Polyana for a cheta with which he visited the Bulgarian communities in the Strandschagebirge . During this time he got to know Goze Deltschew .
Since 2015 he has given its name to Kondolov Peak , a mountain on the Brabant Island in Antarctica.
Web links
- In Macedonia and Eastern Hhrace - Memoirs (Bulgarian) by Mikhail Gerdschikow
- Biography of Georgi Kondolow (bulg.) ( Memento from March 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kondolov, Georgi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kondolov, Schelyasko |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bulgarian freedom fighter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1858 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tsarevo |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 6, 1903 |
| Place of death | Armutveren |