Nikolaos Triantafyllakos
Nikolaos Triantafyllakos ( Greek Νικόλαος Τριανταφυλλάκος Nikolaos Triandafyllakos , * August 28, 1855 , † September 16, 1939 ) was a politician and Prime Minister of Greece .
MP and Minister
Triantafyllakos began his political career with the election of a member of the National Assembly (Voulí ton Ellínon) . There he represented the interests of the prefecture of Arcadia .
From November 1901 to December 1902 he was Minister of the Interior in the second cabinet of Alexandros Zaimis . He also held this post from August 1909 to January 1910 in the cabinet of Kiriakoulis Mavromichalis and from March to August 1915 in the government of Dimitrios Gounaris .
Later he was the High Commissioner of Greece in Constantinople .
Prime Minister and riots of September 1922
After the resignation of Prime Minister Petros Protopapadakis on September 8, 1922 due to the defeat of the Greek army in the Greco-Turkish War , territorial losses to the Young Turks during the war in Asia Minor , the beginning of unrest in Athens and the failure of former Prime Minister Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos to form a government on September 10th he was commissioned by King Constantine I to form a new government. As Prime Minister he also took over the office of Minister of War.
In the following period the unrest among the population grew. After the revolt in the Thessaloniki barracks , martial law was declared on September 26th . Subsequently, the officers of the garrison demanded the abdication of the king and the arrest of the former prime ministers Dimitrios Gounaris and Nikolaos Stratos . In the days that followed, the troops on the islands of Lesbos , Chios and Crete joined in with these demands . In the garrison of Mytilene , a revolutionary committee was formed under Colonel Stylianos Gonatas , which called for the resignation of the government, the dissolution of parliament, the holding of new elections and the abdication of the king in favor of Crown Prince George .
After the gunboats of the Mytilene garrison finally besieged the Athens port of Piraeus , Triantafyllakos and his cabinet resigned on September 29, 1922. On the same day, King Constantine I abdicated for the second time after 1917 and left the throne to his son Georg.
Triantafyllakos then withdrew from political life.
literature
- Evi Koukouraki: From the Greek Wars of Liberation to the Present: History of Young Greece. 2003
Web links
- Biography ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- Domestic Policy 1897-1922
- List of ministers of governments 1899–1924 ( Memento from May 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Petros Protopapadakis |
Prime Minister of Greece 1922 |
Anastasios Charalambis |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Triantafyllakos, Nikolaos |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Τριανταφυλλάκος, Νικόλαος (Greek); Triantaphillakos, Nikolaos |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek politician and prime minister |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 28, 1855 |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 16, 1939 |