Dimitrios Pappas (diplomat)

Dimitrios Pappas ( Greek Δημήτριος Παππάς also transcribed Demetrios Pappas; * 1894 ; † after 1957) was a Greek diplomat .

Life

Pappas studied law and political science at the University of Athens and received his doctorate in 1917. jur. He entered the diplomatic service of the Kingdom of Greece. In 1919 he came as an attaché to the Greek embassy in Bern . In the following years he was Vice Consul in Paris , Consul General in Marseille , Jerusalem and Constantinople, and envoy in Cairo . In 1946 he was appointed director of the cultural section in the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In May 1950 he moved to Belgrade as envoy and in November of the same year came to Bonn as head of the newly established diplomatic mission of Greece at the High Commission . With the establishment of diplomatic relations between Greece and the Federal Republic of Germany , he was appointed Greek envoy to the Federal Republic at the beginning of August 1951.

In 1953 he went to Addis Ababa as ambassador and in June 1957 as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Greece to Moscow .

Honors

In recognition of his services to the restoration of German-Greek relations, he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany at the end of September 1952 .

literature

• International Biographical Archive 38/1957
• Poios einai poios eis ten Hellada. - Athens, 1958
• Hellenikon who's who. - 2nd edition - Athens, 1965