Nosrat-ollah Jahanshahlou | |
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First Deputy Prime Minister of Azerbaijan's Government | |
In office 1945–1946 | |
Personal details | |
Born | 1913 Tehran, Sublime State of Persia |
Died | 2012 Berlin, Germany |
Political party | Tudeh Party of Iran & Azerbaijani Democratic Party |
Nosrat-ollah Jahanshahlou (1913–2012) was a leftist Iranian politician. He was among The Fifty-Three group who were arrested because of their political activities in November 1938 in Iran. After World War II he joined to the separatist movement of Azerbaijan People's Government in Tabriz. During this time he served as the first chancellor of University of Tabriz. After collapse of the Azerbaijani government by the Imperial Iranian Army, he fled to the USSR with couple of other members of Azerbaijani Democratic Party. After 26 years of residing in Soviet Azerbaijan he immigrated to East Germany, then to Switzerland.[1]