Democratic Government of Albania
The Democratic Government of Albania also known as the Hoxha I Government was established on 20 October 1944 by the National Liberation Movement, as the Albanian partisan resistance of 1940–1944 came to a close. A provisional government took power after the liberation of the country from German forces on 28 November. Its interim Prime Minister was Secretary-General Enver Hoxha of the Communist Party of Albania. The interim government was to be in existence until the holding of elections and the convening of a Constituent Assembly.
Top Row: Manol Konomi, Bedri Spahiu, Spiro Koleka, Ymer Dishnica. Bottom Row: Ramadan Çitaku, Myslim Peza, Omer Nishani, Enver Hoxha, Sejfulla Malëshova, Medar Shtylla.
Enver Hoxha was an Albanian politician who was the ruler of Albania from 1944 until his death in 1985. He was the First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania from 1941 until his death, a member of its Politburo, chairman of the Democratic Front of Albania, and commander-in-chief of the Albanian People's Army. He was the twenty-second prime minister of Albania from 1944 to 1954 and at various times was both foreign minister and defence minister of the country.
Official portrait of Hoxha, c. 1985
The site of the house where Hoxha grew up in Gjirokastër. The original home was lost to a fire in the 1960s.
Hoxha at the age of 18
Hoxha in uniform, 1940