Ndoc Çoba was an Albanian official, minister and patriot. He was a devoted Catholic and worked with Albanian financial interests until he was arrested and tortured to death by the Communist regime in 1945. Coba was married to Shaqe Shirake.
Biography
Born in 1870 in Shkoder, he grew up during the Albanian national movement. He finished school in Kolegjit Saverian and continued to study in Venice. There he met his future wife Shaqe Shirake. In 1908 he was elected as the head of the club "Gjuha Shqipe" and in 1909-10190 of the Albanian border control. In 1918 he participated in the Congress of Durrës and fought for the Albanian national cause decided by the London Conference of 1912–13. He also took part in the Congress of Lushnje in Shkoder in 1920 where he was elected as the minister of Economy. He was the first Albanian to make national reforms unheard of at the time. Ndoci published the newspaper "Ora e Maleve" which was the voice of the political group of the same name. Because of his opposition to the movement of June in 1924, he was subsequently arrested with the arrival of the Legality Triumph and was held in prison until February 121925. In 1928-1936 he was elected as head of the National ensemble of Shkoder until August 27 1937 where he was elected as head minister of the city.. He also promoted Albanian Catholicism and participated in the gathering of Pez in October 16, 1942. He was invited by Enver Hoxha in the gathering but Halim Begeja wrote that Coba refused because Hoxha did not accept all the propositions in the resolution of the gathering. After the gathering of Pez, Coba was arrested in Krujë and was interned in Ventotene, and survived until the Italian occupation. Coba participated in the Movement of the Legality. After the communists gained power again, he was arrested in January 1945 and after three months of torture he died in mars. Coba was part of a correspondence with Albanian patriots who worked in the diaspora. He wrote many articles on the same papers like Faik Konica in Corriere della Sera, Piccolo di Trieste and Nazione Albanese.
