Koçi Xoxe

Koçi Xoxe IPA / kɔʧi ʣɔʣɛ / - pronounced: Kotschi Dzodze - (born May 1, 1911 , † June 11, 1949 in Tirana ) was an Albanian politician .

Live and act

First he worked as a plumber in the Korça region . He was involved in the local communist group, to which Enver Hoxha belonged.

From 1943 to 1948 he was a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of Albania (PPSh). From March 23, 1946 to October 3, 1948 he was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior of the People's Republic of Albania and thus controlled the Sigurimi secret police . Xoxe was a supporter of the pro-Yugoslav faction in the PKSH and immediately after the Second World War one of the most influential politicians in Albania and Enver Hoxha's main rival. At the 8th Central Committee plenum in February 1948, he only narrowly escaped being dismissed as General Secretary of the PKSH by Xoxe.

After Stalin's break with Tito in June 1948, Hoxha was able to overthrow Xoxe after securing support from the USSR . Xoxe was expelled from the party in November 1948 and arrested along with other officials of the Interior Ministry and sentenced to death and hanged in a secret trial (May 11 - June 10, 1949) for "Trotskyist and Titoist activity" .

literature

• Kastriot Dervishi: Sigurimi i Shtetit 1944–1991. Historia e policisë politike të regjimit komunist . Shtëpia Botuese 55, Tirana 2012, ISBN 978-99943-56-09-6 .

• Georg H. Hodos: Show trials. Stalinist purges in Eastern Europe 1948–54 . Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1988, ISBN 3-593-33912-9 .
• 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. 769-777 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ On the death sentence (French)