His mother Konstandina, wife Katarina, three sons (Spiro, Telemakun and Themistokli) and two daughters (Aleksandra and Efterpina) remained in Korçë.

In 1911 he was declared persona non grata in Greece because he refused to agree not to carry on nationalistic propaganda south of Vlora as a condition for cooperation with the Greek authorities against the Ottoman Empire.

[citation needed] Gërmenji led an Albanian guerilla band composed of different religions and social classes fighting against the Ottoman Empire.

[citation needed] Themistokli Gërmenji came to Korçë from Pogradec, which was occupied by the armies of Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria during Austro-Hungarian and Bulgarian occupation of Albania.

[3] At the end of 1917 however Gërmenji was accused of collaboration with the Central Powers and summarily executed on 7 November[1] in Thessaloniki after being sentenced to death by a French military court.

[9] It later became clear that the military tribunal had made a grave judicial error, its members having been led astray by Greek informers who wished Germenji removed since he was a powerful Albanian leader.