Gogo Nushi

Gogo Nushi (born 15 December 1913 in Vuno, Albania, † April 9, 1970 ) was an Albanian politician of the Party of Labour of Albania.

Biography

From 1928 to 1940 Nushi lived in Lyon, France, where he had emigrated with his father. As a factory worker, he came into contact with French Communists and was active in Albanian organizations. After returning to Albania in 1941, he was one of the founders of the Communist Party of Albania. Later he was active as a partisan in the resistance against the occupation forces.

Nushi belonged to the existing 118 people from the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation and its Presidium, who was elected in May 1944 as a transitional Parliament by the Congress of Përmet and helped the Communists to take power. After the founding of the People's Republic of Albania on 11 January 1946 he was a deputy of the National Assembly ( Kuvendi Popullor ) and belonged to this circle as a representative of Durres from the first until his death during the sixth term in 1970. On 15 March 1945 he was already trade ministers of the Provisional Government.

Already on the first Congress of the PPSh in November 1948 he was elected member of the Central Committee (CC ) and a member of the Politburo of the PPSh. Nushi was a member of this supreme governing body of the party until November 1971. He was also from 1949 to 1950 as Chairman of the National Assembly and for the first time Parliament President and 1949-1951 first President of the General Council of the Trade Union Federation BSSH ( Bashkimi Sindikal i Shqipërisë ).

On July 24, 1953 his appeal was made to the Minister of Trade and Communications in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Enver Hoxha, whose confidant and supporter he was, and held that office in the subsequent governments of Prime Minister Mehmet Shehu to 14 July 1962. Moreover, he was from July 12 to July 20, 1954 Central Committee secretary.

Between 1954 and 1956 he was again chairman of the People's Assembly. After that he was on June 4, 1956 to June 21, 1958 Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers.

Later he was a member of the Presidium of the National Assembly and thus the collective state presidency, and from 1958 until his death in 1970 again Chairman of the General Council of the BSSH. Successor as Chairman of the Federation of Trade Unions was Rita Marko.

In addition, he held out in the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union, where for talks with Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev and others about the crisis in relations between Albania and the USSR, as well as stronger links with the People's Republic of China.

Between 1980 and 1982, selected works published posthumously Nushis in three volumes under the title Vepra të zgjedhura in a Tiranaer publisher.