Abdyl Këllezi

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Abdyl Këllezi (* 1919 in Tirana ; † 1976 ) was an Albanian politician of the Party of Labor of Albania (PPSh).

biography

After attending school, he studied in Italy between 1939 and 1941 .

He was a member of the 118-person Anti-Fascist Council for National Liberation , which was elected as a transitional parliament by the Përmet Congress in May 1944 and helped the Communists to come to power. After the founding of the People's Republic of Albania on January 11, 1946, he assumed increasingly important tasks as a finance specialist.

On November 28, 1948, Këllezi was appointed finance minister for the first time as successor to Kiço Ngjela and held this office for almost five years until August 1, 1953. In March 1953 he belonged to the delegation at the state funeral of Josef Stalin, along with Liri Belishova , General Beqir Balluku , Vice Prime Minister Spiro Koleka and Minister of Education and Culture Ramiz Alia .

On July 20, 1954, he succeeded the deposed Tuk Jakova again as finance minister and held this position until his replacement by Aleks Verli on June 4, 1956. He was also a member of the Central Committee of the PPSh and a member of the People's Assembly ( Kuvendi Popullor ) and represented in this the Tirana district .

In addition, he became chairman of the influential Albanian-Chinese Friendship Society in 1959 and gained importance in the early 1960s after Albania's break with the Soviet Union and a stronger turn to the People's Republic of China . In addition to his work as chief negotiator for the Sino-Albanian loan agreements, he was particularly responsible for the restructuring of the economic management system.

He was also from January 1965 to January 1966 1st Deputy Prime Minister in the government of Mehmet Shehu . During this time, in March 1965, he attended a multi-day meeting between the leadership of the PPSh and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) .

On September 10, 1966 he was elected chairman of the People's Assembly and as such was President of Parliament until January 13, 1969 . At the following 5th party congress in November 1966 he was elected as a candidate for the Politburo of the Central Committee of the PPSh. In January 1968 he succeeded Spiro Koleka as chairman of the State Planning Commission before he became a member of the Politburo after the 6th Party Congress in November 1971 and was a member of it until he was ousted in September 1975. At the same time he was Vice-Prime Minister between October 30, 1974 and September 1, 1975. In December 1974 he submitted the annual economic report and budget to the people's assembly as part of the five-year plan .

The reason for his disempowerment was the accusation of a military and economic conspiracy, to which he was also Defense Minister General Beqir Balluku , the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces ( Forcat e Armatosura të Shqipërisë ) General Petrit Dume , the Head of the Political Central Administration of the Armed Forces General Hito Çako , Industrial and Mining Minister Koço Theodhosi , Lipe Nashi and others fell victim to claims of too close proximity to the Soviet Union, Prime Minister of the People's Republic of China Zhou Enlai and Yugoslavia . On the other hand, he was accused of sabotaging the national economy and in the oil sector .

In 1976 he was executed by firing squad.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ JF Brown: Background Notes to Albania's Party Congress - Special Report. In: Open Society Archives. February 2, 1961, accessed October 12, 2019 .
  2. ^ Owen Pearson: Albania in the Twentieth Century, A History: Volume III: Albania as Dictatorship and Democracy, 1945-99 (= Owen Pearson [Hrsg.]: Albania in the Twentieth Century: A History . Volume 3 ). IBTauris, London 2006, ISBN 1-84511-105-2 , pp. 404 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
  3. ↑ List Of The Member Of Leading Albanian Party ( Memento from March 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ DOCUMENT No. 14. Memorandum of Conversation between Comrade Zhou Enlai and Party and State Leaders of the PRA, March 27-29, 1965 , in: Ana Lalaj, Christian F. Ostermann, Ryan Gage: “Albania is not Cuba.” Sino-Albanian Summits and the Sino-Soviet Split , p. 257 ( Memento from July 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 2.1 MB)
  5. ↑ THE SERIOUS ECONOMIC PRESSURE ON THE CHINESE HAS BEGUN, BUT WE WILL NEVER BEND (June 17, 1975)
  6. ↑ TSCHOU EN-LAI AND HIS GROUP ARE TURNING A HOSTLY COURSE AGAINST ALBANIA (June 25, 1975)
  7. ↑ Hoxha on Shehu , p. 23 ff. (PDF; 145 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Këllezi, Abdyl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Albanian communist politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Tirana
DATE OF DEATH 1976