Konstantinos Logothetopoulos

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Konstantinos Logothetopoulos ( Greek Κωνσταντίνος Λογοθετόπουλος , born August 1, 1878 in Nafplio , Argolis prefecture ( Greece ); † July 6, 1961 in Kalamaki near Athens ) was a Greek doctor , politician and Prime Minister from 1942 to 1943 during the German occupation of Greece Wehrmacht .

Doctor, military doctor and professor

Logothetopoulos studied medicine in Munich and then stayed in the German Empire , where he worked as a doctor and lecturer until 1910. After returning to Greece, he settled as a doctor and founded a private clinic. During the Balkan Wars and at the beginning of the First World War , he worked as a military doctor from 1912 to 1916. He then worked again as a doctor until 1922 and then again served for a short time as a military doctor in the Army Hospital of Athens during the Greco-Turkish War .

In 1922 he was appointed professor to the chair of gynecology at the National and Kapodistrias University of Athens , where he was later for a time also dean of the medical faculty and from 1932 to 1933 rector . In 1926 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Among his students was the later opposition politician Grigoris Lambrakis , who was murdered on May 25, 1963 and thus triggered the Lambrakis affair, which was filmed as Z by Constantin Costa-Gavras .

Determination of Prime Minister under the German occupation and imprisonment as a collaborator

Konstantinos Logothetopoulos was married to a German and spoke fluent German . His Germany-friendly attitude accompanied a complete lack of criticism of National Socialism. Immediately after the Wehrmacht marched into Athens, he went to see the German ambassador to congratulate him on his great success. On April 29, 1941 he was appointed Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education of the collaboration government set up by the occupiers by General Georgios Tsolakoglou . On December 2, 1942, he finally succeeded in the office of Prime Minister, which he held until April 7, 1943. In view of the lack of leadership skills, the opportunist and collaborator also proved useless for the occupiers; important issues had to be resolved, such as developing a strategy against popular resistance. On April 7, 1943, he was deposed, his successor as prime minister under the occupation of the Axis powers was Ioannis Rallis .

After the withdrawal of the German Wehrmacht from Greece in October 1944, he followed them to Germany, where United States Army troops captured him and handed him over to the Greek authorities. After his surrender he was charged with collaboration with the German occupation forces and sentenced to life imprisonment , but was pardoned in 1951. After his release, Logothetopoulos lived in seclusion on his estate in Kalamaki near Athens, where he succumbed to cancer on the night of July 7, 1961 .

Biographical sources and background information

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Julius Pikoulas: The history of the hospital "Evangelismos" in Athens . (= Düsseldorf work on the history of medicine 38 ), Düsseldorf 1974, p. 74.
  2. ↑ Απέθανε τη νύκτα ο Κ. Λογοθετόπουλος . (= K. Logothetopoulos died during the night). Makedonia newspaper of July 7, 1961, p. 6. ( online ). Retrieved April 14, 2014.
  3. ↑ a b Panagiotis Ant. Georgakopoulos: Καθηγητής Κωνσταντίνος Λογοθετόπουλος (1878–1961). Ο Γυναικολόγος «Πρωθυπουργός» (= Prof. Konstantinos Logothetopoulos (1878–1961). The gynecologist - "Prime Minister"). Θέματα Μαιευτικής – Γυναικολογίας 3 (2008), pp. 244–249.
  4. ↑ Member entry of Constantin Logothetopoulos at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 15, 2016.
predecessor Office successor
Georgios Tsolakoglou (under crew) Greek Prime Minister
1942–1943 (under occupation) 		Ioannis Rallis (under crew)
personal data
SURNAME Logothetopoulos, Konstantinos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek politician and prime minister
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Nafplio
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1961
Place of death Kalamaki near Athens