Athanasios Kanellopoulos

Athanasios Kanellopoulos ( Greek Αθανάσιος Κανελλόπουλος , * 1923 in Andritsena , Greece ; † December 1994 ) was a Greek politician of the Nea Dimokratia (ND).

biography

After attending school, he studied law , political science and economics and completed his studies with a doctorate in political and economic science .

He began his professional career in 1948 as an advisor to the Minister of Coordination, before becoming head of the finance department of the magazine Οικονομικός Ταχυδρόμος in 1950 and also published articles on finance and economics in other specialist journals. In 1963 he accepted the position as professor of economics at the University of Piraeus and taught there until the beginning of the Greek military dictatorship on April 21, 1967.

In addition, he began his political career and was elected for the first time in 1963 as a member of parliament and, after his re-election in 1964 as a representative of the constituency of Elis, was also a member until the beginning of the military dictatorship. At the same time, he was State Secretary for Coordination in the government of Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou from February 1964 to June 1965 .

He then worked again as a financial editor before he worked as a financial expert at the United Nations in New York City between 1969 and 1970 . The UN then sent him to Libya as director of a team of experts for the organization of economic policy and a five-year program .

After his return to Greece after the end of the military dictatorship, he took over his professorship again in 1974 at the Graduate School of Industry at the University of Piraeus. In 1976 he also became visiting professor of sociology and economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

In 1974 he resumed his political career and was re-elected to parliament as a candidate for the New Democracy, to which he belonged until his death after his re-elections in 1977, 1981, 1985, June 1989 and October 1993.

After the formation of the Government of National Unity, he was appointed Minister of Commerce by Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis in July 1974 . After a government reshuffle, he was finance minister in its cabinet from May 1978 to May 1980. In the government of Georgios Rallis , who succeeded Karamanlis as Prime Minister, he was Minister of Agriculture between May 1980 and June 1981.

After ND's renewed victory over the Panellinio Sosialistiko Kinima (PASOK) in the parliamentary elections in June 1989, he was appointed Minister to the Prime Minister by the new Prime Minister Tzannis Tzannetakis in July 1989 and held this position until the end of Tzannetakis' term of office in October 1989.

In April 1990 he became Vice Prime Minister in the cabinet of Prime Minister Konstantinos Mitsotakis . At the same time he also took over the office of Minister of Justice, which he held until his replacement by Michalis Papakonstantinou on August 8, 1991. He held the office of Vice Prime Minister until February 21, 1992.

In the parliamentary elections on October 10, 1993, he received the second highest share of the vote of an ND candidate.