Bedri Spahiu

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Bedri Spahiu (born July 13, 1908 in Gjirokastra , † January 11, 1998 in Tirana ) was an Albanian lieutenant general and politician of the Party of Labor of Albania (PPSh).

biography

The follower of the dervish order of the Bektashi graduated from school in Shkodra in 1923 and then continued his education at a school in Istanbul run by Italians . After his return to Albania, he entered the artillery school of Tirana as a soldier in 1927 and did military service until he was released for allegedly subversive behavior in 1935.

He then worked in a trading company and after the invasion of Italian troops in Albania in 1939, he joined the Albanian Fascist Party ( Partia Fashiste e Shqipërisë ) , which he left in 1940. In 1941 he became a member of the newly founded PPSh and became a member of the Provisional Central Committee (ZK), on whose behalf he took over the party organization in his home town of Gjirokastra. During the Second World War he took part as a partisan from 1942 to 1944 in the communist anti-fascist war of independence and, together with his brother-in-law Chemsi Totosani, commanded units in Gjirokastra in the fight against the 1st Mountain Division of the Wehrmacht . For his efforts and bravery he was awarded numerous orders and medals of merit.

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 became a member of the People's Assembly ( Kuvendi Popullor ) and was a member of it from the first legislative period until February 4, 1955. At times he was also a member of the Presidium of the People's Assembly and thus of the collective State Presidium.

Initially he became Minister for Reconstruction, but was soon promoted to Lieutenant General and appointed Attorney General. In this role he was initially responsible for the organization of special courts and soon afterwards for proceedings against high-ranking party officials such as Koçi Xoxe .

At the 1st party congress of the PPSh he was elected a member of the Politburo in November 1948 and was a member of it until March 1952.

On July 24, 1953, he became Minister of Education and Culture in the government of Prime Minister Enver Hoxha and held this office until his replacement by Ramiz Alia in 1955.

The reason for his disempowerment in February 1955 was the accusation of revisionism made by Enver Hoxha . Two weeks later, he was arrested and expelled from the party, and he was interned with his family in Elbasan .

In 1956 a party conference was held in Tirana under the leadership of Beqir Balluku , at which Hoxha's opponents around Generals Panajot Plaku and Dali Ndreu and his wife Liri Gega planned the overthrow of this and the new Prime Minister Mehmet Shehu . At this meeting, numerous delegates also requested information about the fate of Koçi Xoxe , Tuk Jakova , Bedri Spahiu and other prominent party members and their rehabilitation .

On June 1, 1957, Spahiu was sentenced to 25 years ' imprisonment, which he served first in Kanina and from January 1958 in Tirana. Shortly after his release in October 1974, he was arrested again and was interned in Selenica until May 10, 1990.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paulin Kola: The search for Greater Albania , p. 75, ISBN 1850656649 , 2003
  2. ↑ Anita Niegelhell, Gabriele Ponisch: We are always on fire: reports from former political prisoners in communist Albania . 2001, ISBN 3-205-99290-3 , p. 149
  3. ^ Hermann Frank Meyer: Bloody Edelweiss: the 1st Mountain Division in World War II , p. 454, ISBN 3861534479 , 2008
  4. ^ Owen Pearson: Albania as dictatorship and democracy: from isolation to the Kosovo War 1946-1998 . Center for Albanian Studies, London 2006, ISBN 1-84511-105-2 , p. 461
  5. ↑ Bedri Spahiu dhe Tuk Jakova ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , GAZETA METROPOL from April 15, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gazetametropol.com
  6. ↑ Anita Niegelhell, Gabriele Ponisch: We are always on fire: reports from former political prisoners in communist Albania . 2001, ISBN 3-205-99290-3 , p. 62
personal data
SURNAME Spahiu, Bedri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Albanian communist politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Gjirokastra
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1998
Place of death Tirana