Hysni Kapo

Hysni Kapo in the 1940s

Hysni Kapo (* 4. March 1915 in Tërbaç , Vlorë District ; † 23. September 1979 in Paris ) was a leading Albanian communist politicians during Enver Hoxha - regime and Politburo member of the Party of Labor of Albania . He was considered a rather conservative politician, close confidante of Hoxha and was  traded after Mehmet Shehu as number three in the state and a possible successor to Hoxha.

Life

Hysni Kapo did a commercial training in Vlora , where he later worked as an accountant and as a nurse for the mentally handicapped in the public hospital. He was a founding member of the Communist Party of Albania in 1941 and political secretary of the local party committee of Vlorë. In the same year he founded an armed resistance group. In the communist Albanian resistance he later took leading roles. In 1943 he was accepted into the Central Committee of the Labor Party.

In 1945 he married Vito Kondi , whose brothers were also resistance fighters and active in the party. She was a member of the Central Committee from 1952 and a minister in the 1980s.

In 1945 Kapo was a member of special courts against war criminals and enemies of the people . In 1945 and 1946 he served as envoy  in Belgrade . He also represented Albania at international conferences and, from 1947, before the United Nations Security Council in the Corfu Canal case . In 1947 he was appointed Deputy Foreign Minister. He had been a member of the Politburo since 1946, and in 1956 he was also admitted to the Secretariat of the Central Committee. In July 1950 he was appointed by Hoxha as one of three deputy prime ministers , and the following year as Minister of Agriculture. He was no longer a member of Shehu's government from 1958.

In 1960, a year before the Soviet Union severed ties with Albania due to numerous conflicts between the Soviet and Albanian leadership, he was a delegate of the Party of Labor of Albania at a conference of communist parties in Moscow alongside Ramiz Alia . When it broke with Moscow in November 1960, he was significantly involved. Kapo is said to have enabled one of his uncles to run the Ministry of Security. In 1976 he was vice-president of the constituent committee.

Long sick, he died in 1979 in a Paris hospital. He was a member of the Politburo until his death.

He was also one of 154 people who were awarded the title "Hero of the People" ( Hero i Popullit ).

Works

• Vepra të zgjedhura ["Selected Works"], 5 volumes; Tirana, 1980-1983.

In German translation

• The speech of Comrade Hysni Kapo in the party college of the CPC Central Committee. Publishing house “Naim Frashëri”, Tirana, 1966.
• Excerpts from a speech by Comrade Hysni Kapo in 1973 - The work of Comrade Mao Tsetung is immortal. In: "Roter Morgen", No. 38/1976, S6f.
• From the speech of Comrade Hynsi Kapo, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Labor Party of Albania. In: “Roter Morgen”, No. 49/1974, p. 8. Excerpts from the speech on the 30th anniversary of the liberation of Albania, given on November 29, 1974.
• The ideas of the October Revolution are defended and promoted in the struggle against modern revisionism. Speech at the solemn assembly on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, November 7, 1977. Verlag “8 Nëntori”, Tirana, 1977.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hysni Kapo in the catalog of the German National Library
• Letter from Enver Hoxha to Hysni Kapo

Individual evidence

1. ^ Michael Schmidt-Neke: domestic policy . In: Klaus-Detlev Grothusen (Hrsg.): Albanien (=  Südosteuropa-Handbuch ). tape VII . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1993, ISBN 3-525-36207-2 , pp. 57-85 .
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Owen Pearson: Albania as Dictatorship and Democracy - From Isolation to the Kosovo War 1946-1998 . In: The Center for Albanian Studies (Ed.): Albania in the Twentieth Century: A History . Volume 3. IB Tauris, London 2006, ISBN 1-84511-105-2 .
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Louis Zanga: Biographies of Prominent Public Figures . In: Klaus-Detlev Grothusen (Hrsg.): Albanien (=  Südosteuropa-Handbuch ). tape VII . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1993, ISBN 3-525-36207-2 , pp. 772 .
4. ↑ Ambasadat Shqiptare neper Bote
5. ↑ ^{a b} Louis Zanga: Highest Political Institutions . In: Klaus-Detlev Grothusen (Hrsg.): Albanien (=  Südosteuropa-Handbuch ). tape VII . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1993, ISBN 3-525-36207-2 , pp. 747-762 .
6. ↑ History of the Ministry of Agriculture (Albanian) ( Memento of the original from August 20, 2011 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.  
7. ^ Enver Hoxha: The Struggle of the Party of Labor of Albania against Khrushchev revisionism. From the 19th volume of the works of Enver Hoxha. Roter Morgen Verlag, Dortmund 1976. Page 138, note 1.
8. ↑ Stephan Hensell: Governance in Albania. ( Memento of the original from November 25, 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. (in: WeltTrends , Edition 45, Volume 12, 2004. ISBN 978-3-937786-21-6 ) 
9. ^ Michael Schmidt-Neke: Political System . In: Klaus-Detlev Grothusen (Hrsg.): Albanien (=  Südosteuropa-Handbuch ). tape VII . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1993, ISBN 3-525-36207-2 , pp. 169-242 .
10. ↑ 154 personat qe kane marre titullin "Hero i Popullit" ( Memento of the original from June 25, 2011 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. ; Zëri YT !, March 18, 2006