{{short description|Albanian politician (1880–1940)}} {{More citations needed|date=June 2018}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Xhafer Ypi | image = Xhafer Ypi.jpg | image_size = 220px | honorific_suffix = Bey | order1 = 10th Prime Minister of Albania | term_start1 = January 1922 | term_end1 = December 26, 1922 | monarch1 = Wilhelm I | predecessor1 = Omer Vrioni | successor1 = Ahmet Zogu | birth_date = January 12, 1880 | birth_place = Starje, Albania | death_date = December 17, 1940 (aged 60) | death_place = Starje, Albania | death_cause = Assassinated | spouse = | party = Popular Party ({{langx|sq|Partia Popullore}})<ref>{{citation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=32Wu8H7t8MwC&pg=PA122 | author=Mirela Bogdani, John Loughlin| date=May 15, 2007|series=Library of European Studies|title=Albania and the European Union: The Tumultuous Journey Towards Integration and Accession| publisher=I. B. Tauris | isbn=978-1845113087| page= 122|quote=The first Albanian political parties, in the western meaning of the word, appeared in the early 1920s, the most prominent being: the Progressive Party led by Ahmet Zogu, the People's Party led by Fan Noli, and the Popular Party led by Xhafer Ypi...}}</ref> | relations = | children = | occupation = | profession = | signature = Xhafer Ypi (nënshkrim).svg }} '''Xhafer Bey Ypi'''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Elsie |first1=Robert |title=Historical dictionary of Albania |date=2010 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |location=Lanham |isbn=9780810861886 |page=493 |edition=2nd}}</ref> ({{IPA|sq|ˈdʒafɛɾ ˈbɛj ˈypi}} January 12, 1880, Starje – December 17, 1940) was an Albanian politician.
A member of the Ypi family of Albania which was member of the Bektashi Order, he was educated at a university{{which|date=June 2022}} in Istanbul. In 1920–1921 he was Minister of Internal Affairs and Minister of Justice. He also held the position of Minister of Public Instruction.
As the leader of the Popular Party, in late December 1921 he formed a government where Fan S. Noli was the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Ahmed Zogu was the Minister of Internal Affairs. Until December 4, 1922, Ypi was Prime Minister; in 1922, after Noli's resignation, he was also acting Minister of Foreign Affairs.
From December 2, 1922, to January 31, 1925, Ypi was a member of the High Council of Regency (the collegial Head of State, formally for William of Wied). In June 1924 he left Albania because of Noli's revolt, but he kept holding the post formally.
During Zogu's reign, Ypi was Chief Inspector of the Royal Court. After King Zog had fled after Italian occupation, from April 9 to April 12 Ypi was chairman and Plenipotentiary for Justice of the Provisional Administration Committee, and as such acting head of state. From April 12, he was the Minister of Justice in Shefqet Verlaci's government. He was killed near his hometown by an aerial bomb during the Greco-Italian War. His great-granddaughter is the Albanian philosopher and writer Lea Ypi.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/oct/28/free-by-lea-ypi-review-a-memoir-of-life-amid-the-collapse-of-communism | title=Free by Lea Ypi review – a memoir of life amid the collapse of communism | website=TheGuardian.com | date=28 October 2021 }}</ref>
==See also== * History of Albania
==Sources== * [http://www.ibtauris.com/ibtauris/display.asp?K=510000000646194&cid=ibtauris&sf_01=CAUTHOR&st_02=king+zog&sf_02=CTITLE&sf_03=KEYWORD&m=1&dc=1 O.S. Pearson, ''Albania and King Zog''],{{dead link|date=July 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} I.B. Tauris. 2005 ({{ISBN|1-84511-013-7}}).
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