Fiqri Dine

Colonel Fiqri or Fikre Dine (born August 3, 1897 near Debar , Ottoman Empire (now North Macedonia ), † November 26, 1960 in Brussels ) was an Albanian military person and Prime Minister of Albania during World War II under German occupation . He was a member of the Balli Kombëtar .

Life

Fiqri Dine was the head of the family of the Sunni - Muslim Dine clan from Debar .

Colonel Fiqri Dine became Prime Minister of Albania on July 18, 1944 . He was influenced by the ideas of Mehdi Bej Frashëris and Abaz Kupi . Frashëri used Dines connections to Legaliteti to involve its chairman Kupi in the government. After Consul General Martin Schliep and Josef Fitzthum , representatives of the Reichsführer SS for Albania, expressed concern about Dines' contacts with the Allies , he was deposed on August 29 after only 43 days.

After the war, Fiqri Dine worked with Muharrem Bajraktari for the Albanian Committee in Paris . Dine fled Yugoslavia to the Kingdom of Greece . He died in Belgium in 1960.

Individual evidence

↑ Hubert Neuwirth: Resistance and Collaboration in Albania 1939–1944 . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-447-05783-7 , pp. 259 .
↑ Reginald Hibbert: Albania's national liberation struggle: the bitter victory (page 95) in the Google book search
^ ^A ^b Bernd Jürgen Fischer: Albania at war, 1939–1945 . ( online [accessed August 28, 2011]).
↑ Miranda Vickers: The Albanians: A Modern History . IBTauris, 1999, ISBN 978-1-86064-541-9 , pp. 175 ( online [accessed January 9, 2014] "Fikri Dine and Muharrem Bajraktari were also mentioned as other members of this 'group of spies'. It appears, however, that the latter two were in fact not working for the Yugoslavs but for the Albanian Committee (formed by exiled BK and ...) ").

predecessor	Office	successor
Rexhep Mitrovica	Prime Minister of Albania in 1944	Ibrahim Biçakçiu

personal data
SURNAME	Dine, Fiqri
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Dine, Fikre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Colonel and Prime Minister of Albania
DATE OF BIRTH	August 3, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH	Debar , Ottoman Empire
DATE OF DEATH	November 26, 1960
Place of death	Brussels , Belgium

[1] Hubert Neuwirth: Resistance and Collaboration in Albania 1939–1944 . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-447-05783-7 , pp. 259 .

[2] Reginald Hibbert: Albania's national liberation struggle: the bitter victory (page 95) in the Google book search

[Bernd_Jürgen_Fischer-3] A ^b Bernd Jürgen Fischer: Albania at war, 1939–1945 . ( online [accessed August 28, 2011]).

[Vickers1999-4] Miranda Vickers: The Albanians: A Modern History . IBTauris, 1999, ISBN 978-1-86064-541-9 , pp. 175 ( online [accessed January 9, 2014] "Fikri Dine and Muharrem Bajraktari were also mentioned as other members of this 'group of spies'. It appears, however, that the latter two were in fact not working for the Yugoslavs but for the Albanian Committee (formed by exiled BK and ...) ").