Theodoros Pangalos (politician)

Theodoros Pangalos (2010)

Theodoros Pangalos ( Greek Θεόδωρος Πάγκαλος , born August 17, 1938 in Elefsina ) is a Greek politician . He was Deputy Prime Minister from 2009 to 2012.

Life

Theodoros Pangalos came from an Arvanite family and is the grandson of the general and dictator of the same name . He studied law and economics at the University of Athens . In 1973 he received his doctorate in economics from the Sorbonne University in Paris, where he worked as a lecturer, research and director of the Institute for Economic Development until 1978.

Pangalos participated in the resistance against the Greek military dictatorship (1967–1974), which in 1968 deprived him of his Greek citizenship. Since his first election in 1981, Pangalos has represented Attika in the Vouli as a PASOK deputy . From 1982 to 1984 he was State Secretary for Commerce, then State Secretary in the Foreign Office until 1985, and Deputy Foreign Minister from 1985 to 1989 and 1993/1994 with responsibility for European issues.

In 1994 he became Minister of Transport and Communications and from January 1996 to February 1999 Foreign Minister. In February 1999, Pangalos had to resign as Foreign Minister after he had the Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan, who had fled to Greece, smuggled into the Greek embassy in Kenya , where he was arrested and handed over to the Turkish authorities. In 2000 he returned to the government as Minister of Culture. He held this office until November 2000.

Pangalos got into the political debate several times because of drastic and undiplomatic statements:

• He described Germany as a "giant with the strength of a monster and the brains of a child"
• The Turkish politicians are "robbers, murderers and rapists" and "sneaked across the carpets of Europe with their blood-smeared boots"
• The statement, "They speak English in the corridors of the State Department" referred to the tenure of US-born Secretary of State Giorgos Papandreou .
• "After 2000 we (the PASOK government) failed in practically every area, we devastated the country."
• "Germany destroyed the Greek economy during the Nazi era by taking all the money and gold that the Bank of Greece had without ever repaying it."

After PASOK's victory in the 2009 parliamentary elections , the new Prime Minister, Giorgos Papandreou, appointed Pangalos to his government as Deputy Prime Minister. Pangalos was responsible for coordinating economic and defense policy. In 2011 he remained Deputy Prime Minister in Papadimo's cabinet .

In the parliamentary elections in May 2012 , Pangalos no longer ran.

literature

• Theodoros Pangalos in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

• Theodoros Pangalos on the website of the Greek Parliament
• Personal website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Οι Αρβανίτες της Αττικής και η συμβολή τους στην εθνική παλιγγενεσία. (No longer available online.) In: kathimerini. Archived from the original on June 29, 2013 ; Retrieved January 3, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ ^{a b} word athlete from Olympus . In: Die Zeit , No. 49/1993
3. ↑ Washington concerned about arms race in Cyprus . In: Die Welt , September 27, 1997
4. ^ Eleftherotypia, October 4, 1999
5. ↑ Rizospastis of June 21, 2007  ( 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.  
6. ↑ HR-Net: Athens News Agency: Daily News Bulletin in English, August 26, 2006
7. ↑ Greece newspaper, February 25, 2010 ( Memento of the original from September 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ^ Bieler Tagblatt, October 6, 2009 ( Memento from October 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
9. ↑ After the debacle is before the debacle . In: FAZ , May 9, 2012