Pausanias Katsotas

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Pausanias Katsotas

Pausanias Katsotas (* 1896 in Stamna; † February 14, 1991 in Athens ) was a Greek army officer and politician.

Life

Pausanias Katsotas was born in Aetolia-Acarnania in 1896 . He graduated from the Hellenic Army Academy in 1916 as an infantry lieutenant and served in the army until his voluntary retirement in 1929. After the outbreak of the Greco-Italian War in 1940, he was recalled to the service and fought on the Albanian front as a regimental commander with the rank of lieutenant colonel . After the German invasion of Greece in April 1941, he fled the country and joined the troops of the Greek government in exile in the Middle East. He took command of the 1st Greek Infantry Brigade, with which he fought in the Second Battle of El Alamein .

After the liberation of Greece in 1944, he became Minister of Public Order in the short-lived cabinet of Panagiotis Kanellopoulos (November 1945) and head of the military command of Athens. He retired in 1946 and then successfully stood for a seat in the Hellenic Parliament in the March 1946 elections and represented his Aetolia-Acarnania prefecture. In 1949, during the final stages of the Greek Civil War , he was reassigned to the service and head of the military command in central Greece. He resigned in 1950 with the rank of major general .

He was re-elected to parliament in the March 1950 elections. He became Minister of the Interior in the cabinet of Sophoklis Venizelos (March – April 1950) and Minister-Governor of North Greece in the Nikolaos Plastiras cabinet (May – August 1950). In 1954 he was elected mayor of Athens, a post he held with minor interruptions until 1959. In 1960 Katsotas founded his own political party, the "Workers' Party" (Εργατοτεχνικό Κόμμα), which in 1961 joined Georgios Papandreou Center Union ( Enosis Kendrou ). From February – June 1964, Katsotas served as Minister of Social Welfare under Papandreous.

Mayor Pafsanias Katsotas with Federal President Theodor Heuss, Athens, May 1956

Pausanias Katsotas was awarded the Order of the Phoenix by King George II (Greece) and King Paul I of Greece . Further awards he received were twice the Cross of Valor and four times the War Cross and a large number of other orders of war and merit.

He is the author of his autobiography "The Decade 1940–1950" (Greek: Η Δεκαετία 1940–50) which deals with the political period from 1940 to 1950.

Katsotas died on February 14, 1991 and is buried in the First Athens Cemetery . His great-grandson is the Greek lawyer and politician Pausanias Papageorgiou .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://ikee.lib.auth.gr/record/283772/files/GRI-2016-16916.pdf .
  2. ↑ Γενική Γραμματεία της Κυβέρνησης | ΚΑΝΕΛΛΟΠΟΥΛΟΥ ΠΑΝΑΓΙΩΤΟΥ. Retrieved December 3, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Γενική Γραμματεία της Κυβέρνησης | ΒΕΝΙΖΕΛΟΥ ΣΟΦΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ. Retrieved December 3, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Γενική Γραμματεία της Κυβέρνησης | ΠΛΑΣΤΗΡΑ ΝΙΚΟΛΑΟΥ. Retrieved December 3, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Γενική Γραμματεία της Κυβέρνησης | ΠΑΠΑΝΔΡΕΟΥ ΓΕΩΡΓΙΟΥ. Retrieved December 3, 2018 .
  6. ↑ tovima.gr: Οι « φρουροί » του Τσίπρα στο παιχνίδι της εξουσίας . In: tovima.gr . ( tovima.gr [accessed December 4, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Katsotas, Pausanias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek army officer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Stamna , Greece
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1991
Place of death Athens , Greece