Nikos Pappas (Admiral)

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Nikolaos "Nikos" Pappas ( Greek Νικόλαος "Νίκος" Παππάς , born August 21, 1930 in Kymi ; † April 5, 2013 in Athens ) was a Greek admiral .

Pappas was trained as an officer at the Academy of the Hellenic Navy and continued at the Navigation School of the British Royal Navy and at the NATO Defense College in Rome .

From 1963 he served as an adjutant in the Ministry of Defense for two years . In 1971 he was entrusted with the management of the Naval NCO School.

Since the 1967 coup , naval officers under Pappas' leadership have been plotting to overthrow the junta and return to democracy. After Karamanlis from exile in Paris on April 2, 1973 demanded the return of the king and the formation of a new government, the KYP intelligence service interpreted this as a call to the armed forces loyal to the king. The plan developed in 1973 called for the occupation of the naval base on the Cycladic island of Syros as part of a NATO exercise and, if successful, the subsequent blockade of the ports of Piraeus and Thessaloniki. Should the junta not comply with the request to surrender, the navy would have blocked the roads to Athens with ship artillery. The operation was supposed to begin on May 2nd at 2 a.m. Pappas was informed that night that the conspiracy had failed. In the meantime he was in Italian waters with the destroyer Velos southwest of Rome. He received political asylum in Italy. As a result, around 70 royalist officers and some former ministers including Evangelos Averoff were arrested. On June 1, 1973, the dictator Papadopoulos had the monarchy abolished and a referendum on the form of government held on July 29 .

After Pappas had returned in 1974 to Greece, his line was first naval base of Salamina transmitted before he was seconded in 1976 for the next three years for the Royal Navy. After returning to Greece in 1979, he continued to serve in the Hellenic Navy and served as Minister of the Merchant Navy between November 1989 and April 1990 in Xenophon Zolota's transitional government .

He was married to Chariklia Papanastasiou and had two sons with her.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Πέθανε ο Ναύαρχος Νίκος Παππάς (German: Admiral Nikos Pappas died) In: Euronews.gr
  2. ↑ Απεβίωσε ο ναύαρχος Νίκος Παππάς (German: Nikos Pappas different) In: naftemporiki.gr
  3. ^ Heinz A. Richter : 1939-2004. In: Reinhard Stupperich , Heinz A. Richter (ed.): History of Greece in the 20th century. (=  Peleus: Studies on the archeology and history of Greece and Cyprus. 67.2). Verlag Franz Philipp Rutzen , Ruhpolding 2015, ISBN 978-3-447-10398-5 , p. 418 f.
  4. ↑ List of ministers in the cabinet of Zolota (Greek)
personal data
SURNAME Pappas, Nikos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pappas, Nikolaos; Παππάς, Νίκος (Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek admiral
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Kymi
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 2013
Place of death Athens