1. Gheorghe Alexianu was a Romanian lawyer, high school teacher and associate professor who served as governor of Transnistria between 1941 and 1944.
11 Facts About Gheorghe Alexianu
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Gheorghe Alexianu was born in Straoane, Putna County; he was the eldest son of an Aromanian shepherd from Pindus, Ovanez Alexean, a refugee in Wallachia to escape the forced islamization undertaken by the Turks in the second half of the 19th century.
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In 1915 Alexianu began his law studies at the University of Bucharest.
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Gheorghe Alexianu then attended doctoral courses at the University of Bucharest and obtained the title of doctor in legal sciences in 1925.
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Gheorghe Alexianu began his administrative career with his appointment as a governor of Tinutul Suceava on August 29,1938.
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Gheorghe Alexianu was then appointed as a royal resident of Tinutul Bucegi.
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On June 19,1941, Gheorghe Alexianu attended the meeting of the Antonescu Government when it was decided to declare war on the Soviet Union.
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Gheorghe Alexianu administratively divided the occupied territories of Transnistria into counties, demanded the sending of a Romanian Orthodox Mission to this territory and re-established churches that have been previously transformed into grain depots or cattle stables by the soviet authorities.
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Gheorghe Alexianu was arrested in August 1944 and sent to Moscow alongside Ion Antonescu and Mihai Antonescu.
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Gheorghe Alexianu was given back to the Romanian authorities in April 1946.
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Gheorghe Alexianu was tried and convicted for war crimes, and was executed on June 1,1946, at Jilava Prison.