Anastasios Charalambis

Anastasios Charalambis ( Greek Ἀναστάσιος Χαραλάμπης , * 1862 ; † March 11, 1949 ) was a Greek general , politician and prime minister .

General and Minister of War

Charalambis, who came from an influential family from Achaia , embarked on a career in the Greek army and eventually rose to general .

From June to September 1916 he was Minister of War in the fourth cabinet of Alexandros Zaimis . During the First World War in 1917 he was initially Chief of the General Staff . Then in 1918 he was commanding general of the II Army Corps .

Prime Minister for a day

After the defeat in the Greco-Turkish War and the overthrow of the government of Petros Protopapadakis on September 10, 1922, there was a serious domestic political crisis. The subsequent government had to resign due to military revolts in the garrisons of Thessaloniki and Mytilini under the leadership of Colonel Stylianos Gonatas on September 29, 1922. The candidate for Prime Minister Alexandros Zaimis , selected by the Revolutionary Committee , had already left Greece, so Sotirios Krokidas should be appointed Prime Minister of a transitional government. When he did not arrive in Athens on September 29, 1929 in time to take the oath of office , General Charalambis became Prime Minister for one day as acting Minister of War.

Web links

• The Great War of 1914–1918: Balkans (Allied Powers) ( Memento from March 24, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
• Evi Koukouraki: From the Greek Wars of Liberation to the Present: History of Young Greece. 2003.
• Domestic Policy 1897–1922 (English)
• List of ministers of governments 1899–1924 ( Memento from May 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

predecessor	Office	successor
Nikolaos Triantafyllakos	Prime Minister of Greece 1922	Sotirios Krokidas