Marinos Antypas

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Marinos Antypas ( Greek Μαρίνος Αντύπας , * 1872 in Ferendinata , Kefalonia ; † March 8, 1907 ) was a Greek journalist and one of the country's first socialist activists.

Andypas was born in the village of Ferendinata (today in Pylaros ) on Kefalonia and grew up in a middle-class family. His father was the carpenter and wood sculptor Spyros Antypas, his mother Angeliki Klada. The family moved to Argostoli , where he graduated from high school in June 1890. He then enrolled at Athens University to study law, where his political and social views were characterized as socialist from the start. Together with some fellow students he took part in the uprising in Crete in 1896 against the Ottoman Empire , from where he returned a year later with a thoracic trauma . On September 14, 1897, he organized a rally in Omonia Square , Athens , where he criticized the role of the royal family and the great powers in the Turkish-Greek War . This earned him a year in prison. After his release, he was again for alleged incitement to attempted murder of King George I arrested.

In 1898 he broke off his studies and returned to Kefalonia, where he published the magazine Anastasis (Ανάστασις 'Resurrection'), which was banned because of an article in which he again made politics and justice responsible for the war defeat.

In 1903 Antypas traveled to Bucharest , where his uncle Georgios Skiadaresis lived. It is believed that it was he who persuaded his uncle to buy around 30,000 hectares of land in Thessaly, in the Tembi area . In the same year he continued his magazine in Kefalonia and founded the "Volkslesesaal Isotis " ("Equality"), a kind of elementary school. In 1906 he ran unsuccessfully as a member of parliament for the district of Kranea on Kefalonia.

He then moved to Thessaly, where he became the overseer of his uncle's estate. Here he created better working conditions for the farm workers, such as a Sunday off and the remuneration of 75% of the income (as opposed to the 25% required by law) and canceled their debts. At the same time he began to speak to farm workers in the villages of the Thessalian plain and to mobilize them to fight for better working conditions. With his fighting spirit, he attracted the hatred of the large landowners who initially tried to stop him with recommendations from the gendarmerie and the prefecture administration. Antypas continued his work unimpressed, which culminated in a rally in Laspochori in early 1907.

The large landowners of Thessaly, who saw their attempts to stop Antypas failed, discussed his murder on March 8, 1907 in Pyrgetos  (today part of the municipality of Tembi ). They hired the plant manager Ioannis Kyriakos to provoke an argument and shoot him in the process. So Kyriakos should be able to rely on self-defense in order to be acquitted in court, which also succeeded. Antypas' last words were "equality, brotherhood, freedom". The murder of Antypas sparked rallies and protests across Greece.

After Antypas' death, his uncle sold the estate in Thessaly.

reception

Antypas' work and his death were used as motifs in the Greek film To choma vaftike kokkino ( Greek Το χώμα βάφτηκε κόκκινο , Blood on the Land ), which was made in 1965 with Nikos Kourkoulos in the leading role and 1966 was nominated for the Oscar for best foreign language film.

Near his home town, in Agia Effimia on Kefalonia, a statue commemorates Antypas.

In 1983 the Greek Post Office ELTA issued a stamp with the portrait of Antypas.

literature

  • Spyros D. Loukatos: Marinos Sp.Andypas, I zoi - I epochi - I Ideologia - I drasi ke i dolofonia tou, Athens 1980

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Xenofon A. Brounzakis: Marinos Andypas: Enas exegermenos agnoristis ton sosialistikon ideodon ( article online ) at the Pondiki newspaper, June 30, 2013
  2. ↑ O anthropos - symvolo tis apeleftherosis tis agrotias  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ,@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www1.rizospastis.gr   Rizopastis magazine, May 6, 2007
  3. ↑ Entry on the film at IMDb
personal data
SURNAME Antypas, Marinos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Andypas, Marinos; Αντύπας, Μαρίνος (Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek journalist and one of the country's first socialist activists
DATE OF BIRTH 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Ferendinata , Kefalonia
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1907