Fadil Hoxha
| Fadil Hoxha | |
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| 2nd, 8th President of the Assembly of Kosovo and Metohija | |
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In office 11 July 1945 – 20 February 1953 |
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| Preceded by | Mehmed Hoxha |
| Succeeded by | Ismet Saqiri |
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In office 24 June 1967 – 7 May 1969 |
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| Preceded by | Stanoje Akšić |
| Succeeded by | Ilaz Kurteshi |
| 1st Chairmen of the Executive Council of Kosovo and Metohija | |
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In office 1945–1963 |
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| Preceded by | Position created |
| Succeeded by | Ali Shukrija |
| Vice-President of the Presidium of Yugoslavia | |
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In office 1978–1979 |
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| Preceded by | Stevan Doronjski |
| Succeeded by | Lazar Koliševski |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
15 March 1916 Đakovica, Kingdom of Montenegro (in today's Kosovo) |
| Died | 22 April 2001 (aged 85) Pristina, Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija (at the time a province of FR Yugoslavia under UN administration) |
| Nationality | Yugoslav |
| Political party | League of Communists of Yugoslavia |
| Occupation | Teacher, Partisan, statesman |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
| Service/branch | Yugoslav People's Army |
| Years of service | 1941–45 |
| Rank | commander |
| Commands | Albanian Partisans |
| Battles/wars | World War II |
Fadil Hoxha (Serbian: Фадиљ Хоџа, Fadilj Hodža) (15 March 1916 – 22 April 2001) was an ethnic Albanian Yugoslavian politician from Kosovo. He was a member of the Communist party and fought in the Yugoslav Partisans during the World War II. After the war, he was the first Chairman of the Executive Council of the Autonomous District of Kosovo and Metohija (1945-1963) and later member of the Presidium of Yugoslavia (1974-1984).
As a young man, Hoxha migrated from his home town of Gjakova to attend secondary school in Albania, since secondary education in the Albanian language was unavailable in Yugoslavia. He continued his education in the town of Shkodër and later in Elbasan. In Albania he joined a communist cell which provided him with his first exposure to the ideas of Marxism-Leninism. In 1939, during fascist Italy's invasion of Albania, Hoxha became active in the emerging resistance movement against the Italian occupation among Albanian youth.
Hoxha returned to Kosovo in 1941, where he worked as a teacher. In the same year he abandoned his post to become one of the founders of the communist partisan movement in Kosovo. Within a short time Hoxha rose through the partisan ranks to become commander, leading battalions which had in their ranks Kosovo Albanians and Serbs who fought against Fascism and Nazism and the Italian and later German occupation of Kosovo.
Hoxha was instrumental in the Kosovo communist movement's efforts at adopting a resolution at the Bujan Conference of 1943, which expressed the wish of Kosovo for national self-determination and unification with Albania. However, under Serbian pressure, the Yugoslav Communist Party annulled the resolution, which resulted in Hoxha's marginalization in the party after the end of the war in 1945 and Kosovo's reinstitution into Serbia with a limited degree of autonomy.
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