Asim Vokshi

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Asim Vokshi (* 1909 in Yakova , Ottoman Empire , today Kosovo , † October 4, 1937 in Spain ) was an Albanian resistance fighter and Spain fighter .

Life

Vokshi was an Albanian from Gjakova . After primary school in his hometown, he attended a college in Shkodra . He studied at a military academy in Italy . He founded a communist group among young Albanian officers and published a magazine in 1937, of which only one issue appeared. In 1935 he took part in an uprising against the Albanian King Zogu in Fier . As a result, he was arrested and sentenced to prison.

As a volunteer fighter he went to the Spanish Civil War and became company commander of the Garibaldi Battalion in the International Brigade . He fell in Fuentes de Ebro in 1937.

Appreciation

“Asim Vokshi Palace of Culture” in Gjakova

Asim Vokshi was revered in the Socialist People's Republic of Albania as a communist and Spain fighter and honored as a hero of the people .

Numerous streets and schools in Albania are named after him, including a street in Tirana and the foreign language high school , which had exchange programs with the comprehensive school in Taunusstein and a high school in Jena .

The cultural center in his hometown is named after him. There is a bust in front of it .

literature

  • Prenk Uli, Qemal Sakajeva: Asim Vokshi . Shtëpia Botuese '8 Nentori', Tirana 1982.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Akademia e Shkencave e RPSSH (ed.): Fjalor enciklopedik shqiptar . Tirana 1985, keyword ABC (1937) , p. 1 .
  2. ↑ a b c Prenk Uli: Fjalor enciklopedik shqiptar . Ed .: Akademia e Shkencave e RPSSH. Tirana 1985, keyword Vokshi Asim , p. 1173 .
  3. ↑ a b Bernard Zotaj: Luftëtari ndërkombëtar, Asim Vokshi. In: Gazeta Telegraf. October 3, 2017, Retrieved October 20, 2019 (Albanian).
  4. ↑ Petro Marko (ed.): Lufta Spanjolle (1936–1939): shënime historike dhe kujtime nga vullnetarët shqiptarë . Instituti i Historisë së Partisë, Tirana 1959, OCLC 11659893 , p. 92, 125 .
  5. ^ German Embassy in Albania: Projects with schoolchildren and students ( Memento from September 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ^ Rhein-Main-Presse: Albanian pupils visiting the Obere Aar comprehensive school in Taunusstein ( memorial from November 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Vokshi, Asim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kosovar Spain fighter
DATE OF BIRTH 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Gjakova , Kosovo
DATE OF DEATH October 4, 1937
Place of death Spain