Fadil Hoxha was born in Gjakova, political activist of Kosova and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, participant and leader of the Anti-Fascist National Liberation War in Kosova, Hero of the People (Yugoslavia). In 1940, he completed the Normal School of Elbasan, where he was introduced to communist ideas for the first time. He was accepted into the ranks of the Shkodra Communist Group (1938). In 1939 he was sent to Kosova to establish relations with the Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia for Kosova and the Dukagjin Plain. After the fall of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (April 1941) and the union of Kosova with Albania, he returned to Kosova, where he worked as a teacher in Gjakovë and became one of the most well-known organizers and leaders of the Anti-Fascist Movement. Until the middle of 1942, he performed the duties of secretary of the Country Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia for Gjakova and member of the Bureau of the Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia for Kosova. In September 1942, with the creation of the “Zenel Hajdini” detachment, the first with Albanian partisans, he was charged with the duty of political secretary and later as its commander. In October 1942, he was appointed commander of the Provisional Headquarters of the National Liberation Army of Yugoslavia for Kosova and then of the Main Headquarters of the National Liberation Army of Yugoslavia for Kosova and Metohija; remained in this position until the abolishment of the Main Staff of Kosova and its transformation into an operational staff (September 1944), in which he was appointed deputy commander. After the end of the Second World War, he performed important tasks for managing the party organization and power bodies in the Republic of Serbia and the Federation. At the beginning of 1945, by order of the Supreme Headquarters of the National Liberation Army of Yugoslavia, Military Power was established in Kosova and Fadil Hoxha was charged with the duty of its deputy commander. Then he held high positions, such as: chairman of the Executive Council of the Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Kosova and Metohija (11.07.1945–20.02.1953; 24.06.1967–07.05.1969), member of the Executive Council of Yugoslavia, member of the Bureau of the Provincial Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia for Kosova and Metohija, member of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia for Serbia, member of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia for Serbia and member of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the League of the Communists of Yugoslavia and the presidency of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The National Liberation Anti-fascist War Association, of which Fadil Hoxha was a member, officially supported the war of the Kosova Liberation Army. He passed away in Prishtina, in 2001. (In the photo: Fadil Hoxha)
Text: Albanian Encyclopedic Dictionary – Vol. 2 , Academy of Sciences of Albania, “Kristalina-KH”, Tirana, 2008, page 959.
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