Sotirios Gotzamanis

Sotirios Gotzamanis (Greek: Σωτήριος Γκοτζαμάνης) (1884-November 28, 1958) was a Greek physician and politician. He was born in Giannitsa, Central Macedonia, which at the time of his birth part of the Ottoman Empire. He studied medicine in Padua, Italy. In 1913, he moved to Thessaloniki when his home region became part of Greece in the aftermath of the Balkan Wars. From 1919 to 1936, he served in the Hellenic Parliament for the Thessaloniki-Pella constituency. He served as minister of hygiene, welfare and assistance in the first government of Panagis Tsaldaris (1932-1933). In the Greek parliamentary elections of 1936, he was leader of the National Reform Party. After the Battle of Greece, he supported collaboration with the Axis powers. On April 30, 1941, he was appointed minister of finance in the collaborationist government, serving in the government of Georgios Tsolakoglou. After the dismissal of Tsolakoglou on December 2, 1942, Gotzamanis continued in his post in the government of Konstantinos Logothetopoulos. His ministry also oversaw agriculture, industry, trade and labor. The Italians favored him to succeed Logothetopoulos as Prime Minister of Greece, but the position went to Ioannis Rallis instead. As the Axis forces withdraw from Greece in 1944, Gotzamanis fled to Italy and then Germany. In his absence, a Greek court sentenced him to death in January 1945 for treason. He returned to Greece several years later and was a candidate for mayor of Thessaloniki in 1954. His political base participated in the Greek parliamentary elections of 1958 on May 11, 1958. He died 6 months later of a stroke and uremia at the age of 73. He is buried in Thessaloniki.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Greece during World War II

1940–41 Balkan Campaign	Occupation and Resistance		Greek government-in-exile

Greco-Italian War Battles Pindus Elaia–Kalamas Korytsa/Korcë Saranda Morava–Ivan Himara Klisura Pass Trebeshina Italian Spring Offensive Commanders Greece Ioannis Metaxas Alexander Papagos Charalambos Katsimitros Konstantinos Davakis Ioannis Pitsikas Dimitrios Papadopoulos Georgios Kosmas Italy Benito Mussolini Sebastiano Visconti Prasca Ubaldo Soddu Ugo Cavallero Carlo Geloso German invasion Battles Metaxas Line Vevi Kleisoura Pass Thermopylae Crete Commanders Greece Alexander Papagos Georgios Tsolakoglou British Empire & Commonwealth Henry Maitland Wilson Thomas Blamey Bernard Freyberg Germany Wilhelm List Kurt Student	Occupying powers Authorities/People Germany Günther Altenburg Hermann Neubacher Walter Schimana Alexander Löhr Hellmuth Felmy Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller Alexander Andrae Bruno Bräuer Italy Angelico Carta Pellegrino Ghigi Carlo Geloso Piero Parini Bulgaria Andon Kalchev Atrocities Kondomari Kandanos Alikianos Doxato Kommeno Kalavryta Distomo Domenikon Drakeia Cephalonia Mesovouno Pyrgoi Viannos Kedros Kleisoura Haidari concentration camp 200 of Kaisariani Chortiatis The Holocaust in Greece Great Famine Collaborators People Georgios Tsolakoglou K. Logothetopoulos Ioannis Rallis Georgios Poulos George S. Mercouris Ioannis Plytzanopoulos Sotirios Gotzamanis Organizations Collaborationist government Security Battalions ESPO EEE Greek National Socialist Party Secessionists Vlach "Roman Legion" Ohrana Cham collaboration (Këshilla) Atrocities Paramythia Kaisariani Kokkinia	National Liberation Front (EAM) People Aris Velouchiotis Stefanos Sarafis Andreas Tzimas Georgios Siantos Alexandros Svolos Ilias Tsirimokos Markos Vafiades Organizations KKE SKE ELD ELAS ELAN EPON PEEA & National Council E.A. OPLA SNOF Operations Drama Uprising Ryka Mikro Chorio Gorgopotamos Bridge Fardykambos Sarantaporo Porta Pinerolo disarmament Steiri Agorelitsa Atrocities Feneos 5/42 dissolution Meligalas Non-EAM Resistance People Napoleon Zervas Georgios Kartalis Dimitrios Psarros Komninos Pyromaglou Kostas Perrikos Vasileios Sachinis Georgios Petrakis Organizations EDES EKKA YVE/PAO PEAN EOK E.S. MAVI Other Operations ESPO bombing Gorgopotamos Bridge Agia Kyriaki Milia Skala Paramythias Xirovouni Menina Dodona Atrocities Expulsion of Cham Albanians British Mission in Greece (SOE) People Eddie Myers Chris Woodhouse Patrick Leigh Fermor Bill Stanley Moss Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz Operations Operation "Albumen" Gorgopotamos Bridge Operation "Animals" Asopos Bridge Kidnap of Heinrich Kreipe Damasta sabotage	Events El Alamein Dodecanese Campaign April 1944 mutiny Battle of Rimini People King George II Emmanouil Tsouderos Sofoklis Venizelos Panagiotis Kanellopoulos Thrasyvoulos Tsakalotos Pafsanias Katsotas Notable units 3rd Mountain Brigade Sacred Band Vasilissa Olga Adrias Katsonis Papanikolis 13th Squadron 335th Squadron 336th Squadron Toward the Civil War Events National Bands Agreement Plaka agreement Lebanon conference Caserta agreement Percentages agreement Dekemvriana Treaty of Varkiza People Georgios Papandreou Ronald Scobie Archbishop Damaskinos Georgios Grivas Angelos Evert Nikos Zachariadis

References

Sources

Γκοτζαμάνης, Σωτήριος (1954). Κατοχικόν δάνειον και δαπάναι Κατοχής. Θεσσαλονίκη.

Μαρκέτος, Σπύρος (2006). Πώς φίλησα τον Μουσσολίνι! Τα πρώτα βήματα του ελληνικού φασισμού. Αθήνα: Βιβλιόραμα. pp. 95–96, 146. ISBN 978-960-8087-52-1.

Marchetos, Spyros (2009). A Slav Macedonian Greek Fascist? Deciphering the Ethnicophrosyne of Sotirios Gotzamanis. Scribd. pp. 1–30. Retrieved 16.03.2016. Check date values in: |access-date= (help) Aναπαραγωγή από το Alexandra Ioannidou και Christian Voß, ed. (2009). Spotlights on Russian and Balkan Slavic Cultural History. Μόναχο-Βερολίνο: Sagner. pp. 67–96. ISBN 978-3-86688-070-2.

Μιχαηλίδης, Ιάκωβος (2001). Σωτήριος Γκοτζαμάνης: ο άνθρωπος, ο πολιτικός, ο μύθος. Θεσσαλονίκη: Βάνιας. ISBN 978-000-288041-1.

"Απεβίωσεν ο Σ. Γκοτζαμάνης" (pdf). Μακεδονία (29 Νοεμβρίου 1958): 1. Retrieved 24.12.2015. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)

"Εκηδεύθη την Κυριακήν ο Σωτήριος Γκοτζαμάνης δαπάναις της Εταιρείας Μακεδονικών Σπουδών" (pdf). Μακεδονία (2 Δεκεμβρίου 1958): 7. Retrieved 24.12.2015. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)

Bibiliography

Μεγάλη Ελληνική Εγκυκλοπαίδεια. Β' συμπλήρ. Iδρυτής-Ιδιοκτήτης: Παύλος Δρανδάκης. Αθήνα: Φοίνιξ. p. 511.

Βιογραφική Εγκυκλοπαίδεια του Νεωτέρου Ελληνισμού, 1830-2010 Α'. Αθήνα: Μέτρον.

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