Stavros Kostopoulos

Stavros Kostopoulos (1900 - 1968) was a Greek banker and politician.

Biography

He was born in Kalamata and he was the son of the banker John Kostopoulos. He attended the first high school in Kalamata. He studied law at the University of Athens and Political Sciences at the University of Paris, where he received his doctorate degree. He dealt with the banking industry, in which the family already had developed significant activity. He was a member (1937-1951) and President (1951-1953) of the board of Commercial Credit. In 1951, he took command of the National Bank of Greece, a position he held until 1953, when it was replaced by Kostis Iliasko because of disagreement on the merger of the Athens bank with the National Bank. He died on June 23, 1968 in Athens.

Political career

In 1928, he was elected for the first time member of the parliament (MP) representing Messinia and reelected in several elections until 1936. In the elections of 1946, he was reelected in the Liberal Party gathering 2.491 votes. Overall, he was elected eleven times as MP. The events of Apostasia was among the first members of the Centre Union left the party and became Minister of Defense in the Athanasiadis -Novas government. He had already come into conflict with the Andreas Papandreou. During his political career he was often minister. He was Minister of Finance in the governments Sophocles Venizelos (August, September & November 1950), Minister of National Economy (1932 & 1947) in Eleftherios Venizelos's governments and Maximus, Foreign Minister (1964-1965) in the government of George Papandreou, Minister without portfolio in the government of Sophocles Venizelos, Interior Minister (1963) in the government of George Papandreou, Minister of Defense (1965-1966) in the governments of Nova, Tsirimokou and Stephanopoulou, minister of Merchant Shipping (1950) in the government Plastiras, Minister of Supply and Distribution (1948) in Sofoulis’ government and Coordinating Minister (1950) in Sophocles Venizelos government.

References

Αντώνης Μακρυδημήτρης, «Οι υπουργοί των εξωτερικών της Ελλάδας 1829-2000», εκδ.Καστανιώτης, Αθήνα, 2000, σελ.103