Fiqri Dine

Colonel Fiqri Dine (5 May 1897 or 3 August 1897 – 26 November 1960) was Prime Minister of Albania under Nazi Germany's military occupation. He was the chieftain of the Dine clan from Debar.

Biography Fiqiri Dine was born on 5 May 1897 in Dibra, Ottoman Empire (now Albania), the only son of Dine Maqellara, an Albanian patriot, fighter and activist during the Albanian revolt of 1910. He finished elementary school at Debar "Shehër". Afterwards, he went to a military academy in Wels, Austria-Hungary from 1914 until 1919 when he graduated and returned to Albania as a lieutenant in Shkodër.

Prime minister Despite being chosen as the Prime minister of Albania, Dine was mainly influenced by Mehdi Frashëri and Abaz Kupi. Frashëri, using Dine's connection to the Legaliteti, requested that Kupi join the government. Kupi agreed after the Albanian partisans began attacking Kupi's territory. However, the Germans refused to accept Dine and Mehdi Frashëri's proposed cabinet or Frashëri's choice to succeed Fuat Dibra, who died in February, as Regent. Dine and Frasheri proposed that a Gheg coalition should be formed. Dine fled from Yugoslavia to Brussels, Belgium, where he died on 26 November 1960, aged 63.