Zola Dragoitschewa

Zola Dragoitschewa as a young woman

in older years

Zola Dragoitschewa ( Bulgarian Цола Драгойчева ; born August 18, 1898 in Byala Slatina , † May 26, 1993 in Sofia ) was a Bulgarian politician . She also worked under the pseudonym Sonja .

Life

She worked as a teacher, joined the Bulgarian Communist Party in 1919, and took part in the September uprising in 1923 . Sentenced to a 15-year prison term, she was given an amnesty in 1924 . For violent actions with the armed arm of the Bulgarian Communist Party, she was sentenced to death in 1925 and then to life imprisonment. In 1932 another amnesty took place. From 1932 to 1936 she graduated from the International Lenin School in Moscow .

In 1937 she became a member of the Central Committee and in 1940 of the Politburo of the Bulgarian Communist Party. In 1942 she was sentenced to death again in absentia. After the communists came to power in Bulgaria on September 9, 1944, she assumed high positions in the party and in the Bulgarian state apparatus.

She dealt with the question of the nationality of Macedonia . As a member of the Bulgarian Politburo in 1979, she said that Macedonia , which was part of Yugoslavia at the time, was an old Bulgarian country that had been forcibly taken from the Bulgarians .

She was honored as a Hero of the People's Republic of Bulgaria , Hero of Socialist Work and the International Lenin Peace Prize.

Works

• Commandment of duty , memoir, 1977
• Macedonia - not a bone of contention, but a factor of good neighborliness and cooperation: memories and thoughts , 1979
• From defeat to victory , 1983

literature

• Dragoitschewa, Zola . In: Taschenlexikon Bulgaria , Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig 1983, page 59 f.

Web links

Commons : Zola Dragoitschewa  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Bulgarska Komunisticheska Partia: Politburo

Individual evidence

1. ^ Poisoned Relationships , in: Der Spiegel 10/1979 of March 5, 1979