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Georgios Papadopoulos
Γεώργιος Παπαδόπουλος
President of Greece
In office 1 June 1973 – 25 November 1973
Prime Minister
Himself Spyros Markezinis
Vice President
General Odysseas Angelis
Preceded by
Constantine II (as King of the Hellenes)
Succeeded by
Phaedon Gizikis
Prime Minister of Greece
In office 13 December 1967 – 8 October 1973
Monarch
Constantine II (until 1973)
President
Himself (from 1973)
Deputy
Stylianos Pattakos
Preceded by
Konstantinos Kollias
Succeeded by
Spyros Markezinis
Regent of Greece
In office 21 March 1972 – 31 May 1973
Monarch
Constantine II
Preceded by
General Geórgios Zoitakis
Succeeded by
None (monarchy abolished) (General Odysseas Angelis as Vice-President of Greece)
Minister for Foreign Affairs
In office 21 July 1970 – 8 October 1973
Prime Minister
Himself
Preceded by
Panagiotis Pipinelis
Succeeded by
Christos Xanthopoulos-Palamas
Ministry of National Education and Religious Affairs
In office 20 June 1969 – 21 July 1970
Prime Minister
Himself
Preceded by
Theofylaktos Papakonstantinou
Succeeded by
Nikitas Sioris
Minister for National Defence
In office 13 December 1967 – 8 October 1973
Prime Minister
Himself
Preceded by
Lt Gen Grigorios Spandidakis
Succeeded by
Nikolaos Efessios
Minister to the Presidency of the Government
In office 21 April 1967 – 8 October 1973
Prime Minister
Konstantinos Kollias Himself
Preceded by
Grigorios Kasimatis
Succeeded by
Ministry abolished (Georgios Rallis becomes minister in 1975)
Personal details
Born
(1919-05-05)5 May 1919 Elaiohori, Kingdom of Greece
Georgios Papadopoulos (/ˌpæpəˈdɒpələs/;[1][2] Greek: Γεώργιος Παπαδόπουλος[ʝeˈorʝi.ospapaˈðopulos]; 5 May 1919 – 27 June 1999) was a Greek military officer and dictator who led a coup d'etat in Greece in 1967 and became the country's Prime Minister from 1967 to 1973. He also was the President of Greece under the junta in 1973, following a referendum. However, after the effective suppression of the Athens Polytechnic uprising, he was, in turn, overthrown by hardliner Dimitrios Ioannidis, in a string of events that would culminate to the fall of the regime in 1974. His and the dictatorship's legacy, as well as its methods he constructed and effects on Greek economy and society as a whole, are still fiercely debated.
He joined the Hellenic Army during the Second World War and resisted the Greco-Italian War; in so doing he obtained honors and became a hero. He remained in the army after the war and rose to the rank of colonel.
In April 1967, Papadopoulos and a group of other mid-level army officers overthrew the democratic government and established a military junta that lasted until 1974. Assuming dictatorial powers, he led an authoritarian, anti-communist and ultranationalist regime which eventually ended the Greek monarchy and established a republic, with himself as president. In 1973, he was overthrown and arrested by his co-conspirator Brigadier General Dimitrios Ioannidis. After the Metapolitefsi which restored democracy in 1974, Papadopoulos was tried for his part in the crimes of the junta and sentenced to death, but his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. Refusing several offers of clemency in exchange for admitting guilt for the crimes of the junta, he spent the remainder of his life in prison.
^"Papadopoulos". The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (5th ed.). HarperCollins. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
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