Constantine Kanaris
Konstantin Kanaris ( Greek Κωνσταντίνος Κανάρης , * 1790 in Psara , Greece ; † September 14, 1877 in Athens ) was a Greek naval hero and statesman .
Kanaris was initially the captain of a small merchant ship, but at the beginning of the Greek struggle for freedom he immediately put himself in the service of his fatherland. On the night of June 18-19, 1822, he blew up the Turkish admiral ship of Kapudan Pascha Kara-Ali in the Chios Canal using two fires and burned a ship of the line in the port of Tenedos on November 9, 1822 .
On August 17, 1824, he set a large Turkish frigate and many smaller transport ships on fire near Samos . However, his attack on the Egyptian fleet in the port of Alexandria on August 10, 1825 was unsuccessful. In 1827 he represented his home island Psara in the Greek National Assembly (the island did not become part of free Greece in the 1830 Treaty of London).
President Kapodistrias appointed Kanaris commander of Monemvasia in May 1828 and later entrusted him with a squadron of warships. After Kapodistrias' assassination in October 1831, Kanaris withdrew to the island of Syra , but later served again as first class ship captain.
In October 1848 Kanaris took over as Minister of the Navy and President of the Cabinet at the head of a coalition ministry that held its own until December 1849. When the Western powers intervened in Greece in May 1854, Kanaris took over the naval administration in the Mavrokordato cabinet , which he led until June 1855.
In January 1862 King Otto of Greece entrusted him with the formation of a new cabinet. Kanaris and his political friends put forward a strictly constitutional program, but the court did not accept it. This rejection was one of the reasons for the subsequent uprising of Navplia , which led to the overthrow of the king. After Otto's departure in October 1862, Kanaris briefly participated in the provisional government, the so-called triumvirate , to which he belonged until February 1863. Under the new King George , he took office as Minister of the Navy on March 17, 1864, but it was dissolved again on April 28. He then held the same position between August 7, 1864 and March 1865.
In June 1877 he was again Minister of the Navy and Prime Minister in the Coalition Ministry . Konstantin Kanaris held this post until his death on September 14, 1877.
Minoides Mynas published a Pindarian song of praise for the sea hero Kanaris in 1830 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Greece . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 7, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 711.
- ↑ Minoïde Mynas: Κανάρις , άσμα Πινδαρικόν / Canaris , chant pindarique. Ελληνιστί Γαλλιστί. Borée et Hingray, Paris 1830, online
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Andreas Metaxas |
Prime Minister of Greece 1844 |
Alexandros Mavrokordatos |
| Georgios Koundouriotis | Prime Minister of Greece 1848–1849 |
Antonios Kriezis |
| Antonios Kriezis | Prime Minister of Greece 1854 |
Alexandros Mavrokordatos |
| Dimitrios Voulgaris | Prime Minister of Greece 1864 |
Zinovios Valvis |
| Zinovios Valvis | Prime Minister of Greece 1864–1865 |
Benizelos Rouphos |
| Alexandros Koumoundouros | Prime Minister of Greece 1877 |
Alexandros Koumoundouros |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kanaris, Constantine |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kanaris, Konstandinos; Κανάρης; Κωνσταντίνος |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek naval hero and statesman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1790 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Psara |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 14, 1877 |
| Place of death | Athens |