Georgios Kaphantaris
Georgios Kaphantaris ( Greek Γεώργιος Καφαντάρης Georgios Kafandaris ; born October 13, 1873 in Frangista ( Evrytania Prefecture ); † August 28, 1946 ) was a Greek politician and Prime Minister .
Lawyer and MP
Kaphantaris holds a law degree from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens . He then worked as a lawyer in Karpenisi and Messolongi .
He began his political career in 1905 when he was elected member of the National Assembly (Voulí ton Ellínon) .
Minister, Prime Minister and Exile
From August to October 1915 he was Minister of the Interior in the second cabinet of Eleftherios Venizelos . In 1919 he became Minister of Agriculture in the third cabinet of Venizelos. However, he resigned in the same year in protest against the beginning of the Greco-Turkish War and then went into exile in France and Italy until 1922 .
On his return he was Minister of Justice in the fourth cabinet of Venizelos from January 24 to February 19, 1924. After Venizelos resigned for health reasons, he himself was Prime Minister of the last government from February 19 to March 12, 1924 before the proclamation of the Greek state, from which the Hellenic Republic emerged on September 29, 1925.
In the following years he founded the Progressive Liberal Party (Proodeftikon Komma) , which stood in opposition to the dictatorship of General Pangalos, Theodoros . His party was represented in the National Assembly from 1928 to 1936 with a few MPs.
After the fall of the Pangalos dictatorship, he was Finance Minister in the seventh to ninth cabinet of Alexandros Zaimis from December 1926 to July 1928 . As such, he signed the Mollow-Kaphantaris Agreement , which regulated the financial side of the Bulgarian and Greek refugees after the First World War. He also held the post of finance minister in the seventh cabinet of Venizelos from January to March 1933.
He was in exile during the dictatorship of General Ioannis Metaxas (April 1936 to January 1941) and the occupation of Greece by the German Wehrmacht during the Second World War from April 1941 to October 1944.
literature
- Gunnar Hering: Kafantaris, Georgios . In: Biographical Lexicon on the History of Southeast Europe . Volume 2. Munich 1976, p. 317 f.
Web links
- List of ministers of governments 1899–1924 ( Memento from May 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- List of ministers of governments 1924–1946 ( Memento of December 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- Election results 1926–1936 ( Memento from February 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Eleftherios Venizelos |
Prime Minister of Greece 1924 |
Alexandros Papanastasiou |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kaphantaris, Georgios |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Καφαντάρης, Γεώργιος (Greek); Kafandaris, Georgios |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek politician and prime minister |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 13, 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frangista (Evrytania Prefecture) |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 28, 1946 |