Komninos Pyromaglou

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Komninos Pyromaglou ( Greek Κομνηνός Πυρομάγλου , born January 15, 1899 in the village of Plaka in Limnos ; † 1980 ) was a Greek politician , resistance fighter and author .

Life

Pyromaglou studied French literature at the Sorbonne after his participation in the First World War and the Greco-Turkish War . In 1931/32 he was a teacher at the Anargyrios School in Spetses , from 1932 to 1934 as a lecturer at the Institute for Modern Greek in Paris and from 1934 to 1938 at the experimental school of the University of Athens . As President of the United Front Against the Dictatorship and Secretary of the Initiative Committee of Political Parties against the Dictatorship of Ioannis Metaxas , he fought his so-called August 4th regime. He was therefore interned on the island of Sikinos . After his release, he fled to France, where he joined the leader of the Venetian Republicans, General Nikolaos Plastiras .

After the occupation of Greece by the Wehrmacht , Plastiras sent his friend and assistant Pyromaglou from Nice to Greece in autumn 1941 with the task of forming a republican organization with a socialist character, which would turn both "against the occupiers" and against a return of the monarchy should. After his arrival in Athens , Pyromaglou made contact with republican circles and was finally convinced by Napoleon Zervas to join the National Republican Greek League (EDES) , which was just being established . In October, a five-member board was formed with Pyromaglou as general secretary. During the occupation he was secretary general and organizer of the EDES and deputy commander of the military wing EOEA. He represented these organizations in the conferences in Cairo in 1943 and in Lebanon in 1944. After the liberation he distanced himself from Zervas and went to Paris after the start of the Greek civil war where he worked in trade until 1955.

After his return to Greece he oversaw the parliamentary elections in 1956 as president of the non-partisan commission. In 1958 he was elected to parliament on the list of the Association of the Democratic Left (EDA) . He then founded the Democratic Union with Elias Tsirimokos. From 1961 onwards he dealt as an author with the contemporary history of the occupation years. He was a member of the International Federation of Resistance Fighters and the International Committee for the Historiography of World War II .

Works

  • Ethniki Andistasi (Εθνική Αντίσταση) 'National Resistance', Athens 1947
  • E Ekloge tis 19is Fevrouariou 1956 (Αι Εκλογαί της 19ης Φεβρουαρίου 1956) 'The elections of February 19, 1956'
  • O Dourios Ippos. Politiki ke Ethniki Krisis kata tin Katochi (Ο Δούρειος Ίππος. Πολιτική και Εθνική Κρίσις κατά την Κατοχή) ‚The Trojan Horse. Political and National Crisis during the Occupation ', Athens 1958.
  • O Georgios Kartalis ke i Epochi tou 1934–1957 (Ο Γεώργιος Καρτάλης και η Εποχή του 1934–1957), ‚ Georgios Kartalis and the epoch from 1934-1957 ', Athens 1965

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hagen Fleischer, Στέμμα και σβάστικα - Η Ελλάδα της κατοχής και της αντίστασης 1941–1944, Stemma kai Svastika - I Ellada tis Katochis kai tis Antistation in Greece (Resistance in Greece) 1990, ISBN 960-02-0764-X (Greek), p. 154.
personal data
SURNAME Pyromaglou, Komninos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Limnos
DATE OF DEATH 1980