Dimitar Ganchev

Dimitar Ganchev (; 1875–1912) was a Bulgarian revolutionary and teacher. An anarchist member of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization (IMARO), he was one of the organisers of the Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising and arrested for his part in it. He was later killed while fighting in the battle of Bunarhisar.

Biography Dimitar Ganchev was born on 21 March 1875, in the Bulgarian city of Ruse, which was then under the rule of the Ottoman Empire. In 1897, he became a member of the so-called Geneva group – an anarchistic revolutionary circle led by Mihail Gerdzhikov and Petar Mandzhukov. He moved to Skopje, where he worked as a teacher and joined the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization (IMARO). Ganchev then disguised himself and went into hiding in the village of Dolno Sonje, where he organised a rebellion against the Ottoman Gendarmerie. In 1904 he was released from prison, under an amnesty procured by the Bulgarian government, and later became a teacher in Razgrad. On 17 October 1912, he was killed in the battle of Bunarhisar.