Ibrahim Biçakçiu

Vorlage:Infobox Prime Minister Ibrahim Aqif Biçakçiu (also known as Ibrahim Biçaku) was an Albanian landowner and Prime Minister of Albania during the Nazi occupation, from August 29 to November 28, 1944.

Biography

Early life

From left to right, General De Veer, Ibrahim Biçakçiu as a ten-year-old boy, Aqif Pasha Biçakçiu of Elbasan and Ali Agjah Bey of Elbasan

Ibrahim Aqif Bej Biçakçiu was the son of Aqif Pasha Biçakçiu of Elbasan. Ibrahim was born in Elbasan on 1905. His family helped in the Independence of Albania and it was through his family influence that he grew up with the same ideology and beliefs.

Balli Kombetar

In 1943, together with Bedri bey Pejani and Xhafer Deva, he helped found a national committee of twenty-two Albanian and Kosovo Albanian leaders, which declared Albania independent and which elected an executive committee to form a provisional government.

Prime minister

Following a week of negotiations, Ibrahim Bicaku agreed to lead a new and small government after Fiqri Dine. Although Bicaku was the perfect friend of Germany, his reign was nevertheless quite incompetent. This was mainly due to the fact that Germany was on the brink of defeat and the Albanian partisans were moving out, ready to strike. Tirana paper noted that he had headed the provisional executive committee exactly one year earlier, prior to the construction of the Mitrovica government. Bicaku had become, once again, the front man for the Germans. It was noted that Bicaku would occasionally play Ping-Pong with Ambassador Schliep.

After the war

Despite many of the Ballists fleeing Albania after the Communists announced their victory, Biçakçiu, like Father Anton Harapi, choose not to leave and decided that he would rather die in his country of birth than on foreign soil. Biçakçiu was shot and killed by the communists in 1977.

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