Tuk Jakova

Tuk Jakova.

Tuk Jakova (* 1914 in Shkodra , † August 12, 1959 ) was an Albanian politician of the Party of Labor of Albania .

biography

Co-founder of the PPSh and promotion to Politburo member

Jakova founded a communist group in his hometown with Qemal Stafën, Zef Malajn and Vasil Shanton at an early stage and was one of the co-founders of the PPSh in November 1941. In the party leadership at the time, he was the only worker alongside Pandi Kristo and Koçi Xoxe . During the Second World War he participated in the communist anti-fascist war of independence from 1942 to 1944 . There he was successively political commissar in the 1st Brigade , the 1st Division and finally the 3rd Corps .

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 the same time he was between 1945 and 1947 chairman of the general council of the trade union federation BSSH ( Bashkimi Sindikal i Shqipërisë ). In January 1946, as the successor to Omer Nishani , he was also chairman of the people's assembly and thus parliamentary president for a short time .

At the 1st party congress of the PPSh he was elected a member of the Politburo in November 1948 , but was dismissed from this position in 1951.

In addition, between 1948 and 1955 he was a member of the central committee (ZK) of the party and secretary of the central committee for party organization and thus de facto after Enver Hoxha the second secretary of the party. At this 1st party congress he also gave a speech against the former party functionary Koçi Xoxe , who was executed on June 11, 1949.

On July 4, 1950 he became Vice Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior, before he was appointed Minister of Finance in the government of Prime Minister Enver Hoxha on July 24, 1953 . In this office, however, Abdyl Këllezi followed him on July 20, 1954 . He then became Vice-Prime Minister on July 20, 1954. At times he was also envoy to Yugoslavia (1946 to 1947) and Hungary .

Tuk Jakova was one of 154 people who were awarded the title “Hero of the People” (“Hero i Popullit”).

Disempowerment, imprisonment and death

After he lost his seats in the People's Assembly and the Central Committee in 1955, he was interned in Berat with his family .

The reason for this was his criticism of Enver Hoxha. As early as 1951 he was accused of his anti- Soviet stance at the time and he fell out of favor as a result. In addition, he was the only Catholic in the party leadership, which was dominated by Muslim or Albanian Orthodox politicians. Finally, because of his Yugoslavia-friendly attitude, he fell out of favor when he reminded Hoxha that it was the Yugoslav Communist Party that had actually been the godfather of the Labor Party of Albania and that Jakova von Hoxha was therefore accused of adherence to Titoism has been.

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 .

He was subsequently under house arrest in Kanina near Vlora from May 24, 1957 . On April 17, 1958, he was taken to Tirana while his wife Mita Jakova, his mother Luçia Jakova and his brother Frano Jakova were interned in Gramsh in southeastern Albania. In the following years he became 20 years imprisonment convicted. A few months later, according to official information, he died of acute appendicitis in a hospital . It is unofficially believed that he died as a result of torture while in prison.

The correspondence between him and his wife Mita appeared in 1999 under the title Letërkëmbim i dhimbshëm 1957-1959 - Mita Jakova, Tuk Jakova .

Web links

• Çifti Jakova - një tragjedi e dictaturës (Homepage of the City of Shkodra)
• Andi Balla: Anthology of Wounds. A terrific and artistic testimony of the hell of the living , pp. 26-39, Tirana 2006 (PDF; 706 kB)
• History of the People's Assembly, p. 161 (PDF; 18.3 MB)
• Politburo and Secretariat of the Central Committee of the PPSh 1948-1991
• Albanian governments
• Leaders of the Albanian Legislature

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} The Artful Albanian: the Memoirs of Enver Hoxha (Richardson Reviews)
2. ^ Joan Campbell: European labor unions , p. 9, ISBN 031326371X , 1992.
3. ^ Leaders of the Albanian Legislature
4. ^ Borba Continues Anti-Albanian Campaign (March 22, 1961) ( Memento of March 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
5. ^ 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. 306.
6. ↑ Borba Claims Terror Ruling in Albania  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (March 21, 1961)  
7. ^ 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 , pp. 403, 461
8. ^ 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. 483
9. ↑ Ambasadat Shqiptare neper Bote
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) 
11. ↑ CIA report (April 20, 1951, PDF; 282 kB)
12. ^ Albania: Stalinism and Communism in Albania
13. ↑ Sadik Premte: Stalinism and Communism in Albania (Trend online newspaper 4/2010)
14. ↑ Teresa Rakowska-Harm Stone: Communism in Eastern Europe , p 218, ISBN 0253313910 , 1984,
15. ^ Enver Hoxha: "The Titoites, Historical Notes" , Tirana 1982 (excerpt)
16. ↑ Purity and Purge in Albania's Communist Party ( Memento of the original from August 17, 2012 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. (November 14, 1960) 
17. ^ Open Library