On April 14, 1945, Fejzi Alizoti, a political activist, was sentenced to death as a collaborationist and was shot. He was born in Gjirokastra. He graduated in Istanbul in finance and diplomacy. He served in the administration of the Ottoman Empire, deputy governor in Lebanon, kaymekam in Libya, Anatolia and Prizren, prefect of Prishtina during the Balkan wars (1912-1913), and then deputy governor in Skopje. In 1913 he stayed in Istanbul and then went to Romania. At the request of Ismail Qemali, he came to Albania, where he was appointed Prefect of Berat, then General Secretary of the Government of Vlora, Minister of Internal Affairs (November 1913). In the years 1916-1918 he was director of finance for the territory under the administration of Austria-Hungary; in the years 1926–1939: deputy. Fejzi Alizoti is among the main figures of the Assembly of April 12, 1939. Minister of State, Secretary of State for Finance (12.04.1939–05.04.1940). He held the lifelong honorary title “Minister of State of the Italian Kingdom”. Civil Commissar of the Albanian Government in Kosova (July 1941 – December 1941). The last chairman of the Supreme Fascist Corporate Albanian Council (16.05.1943 – 4.08.1943). Chairman of the Initiative Commission of Anti-Communist Intellectuals, in 1944. He was arrested in November 1944 and sentenced to death as a collaborator . (In the photo: Fejzi Alizoti)
Text: Albanian encyclopedic dictionary – Vol. 1 , Academy of Sciences of Albania, “Kristalina-KH”, Tirana, 2008, page 57.
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