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Greek politician
Panagiotis Kanellopoulos
or
Panayotis Kanellopoulos
(
Greek
:
Παναγι?τη? Κανελλ?πουλο?
; 13 December 1902, in
Patras
,
Achaea
? 11 September 1986, in
Athens
)
[2]
was a Greek writer, politician and
Prime Minister of Greece
. He was the Prime Minister of Greece deposed by the
Greek military junta of 1967?1974
.
Biography
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Kanellopoulos studied law in
Athens
,
Heidelberg
and
Munich
. Kanellopoulos was an intellectual and author of books about politics, law, sociology, philosophy, and history. His book "I was born in 1402" received a literary award from the
Academy of Athens
. He married Theano Poulikakos (Θεαν? Πουλικ?κου).
After the start of the
Axis occupation of Greece
in 1941 he founded the
Omiros
resistance group, and in 1942 he fled to the
Middle East
, where he served as
Minister of Defence
under the
Tsouderos
government in exile during
World War II
. In November 1945, he served as prime minister for a short period of time. After the war he became
Minister for Reconstruction
under
Georgios Papandreou
in a national unity government. He also served in other ministerial posts under
Alexandros Diomidis
,
Constantine Karamanlis
and others till 1967 when he became Prime Minister.
On 9 July 1961 Panagiotis Kanellopoulos as Deputy Prime Minister in Konstantinos Karamanlis' government and German Vice-Chancellor
Ludwig Erhard
signed the protocols of Greece's Treaty of Association with the
European Economic Community
(EEC). The signing ceremony in Athens was attended by top government officials from the six-member group consisting of Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Luxemburg and the Netherlands. The six member group was the early precursor of today's 25 member
European Union
. Economy Minister Aristidis Protopapadakis and Foreign Minister
Evangelos Averoff
were also present at the ceremony as well as Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis.
His niece, Amalia married Karamanlis. In 1963 he succeeded Karamanlis as leader of the
National Radical Union
party (ERE).
He was the last Prime Minister (acting as a caretaker for the scheduled for 28 May) prior to the
coup d'etat of 21 April 1967
. He was placed under house arrest for the next seven years. During the events leading to the
metapolitefsi
(the period of political transition following the fall of the military junta),
Phaedon Gizikis
actively considered giving Kanellopoulos the mandate to form a transitional government. After the
metapolitefsi
Kanellopoulos resumed his parliamentary career as a member of the
New Democracy
party. He declined offers to become
President of Greece
when the post was offered to him during the
metapolitefsi
.
Kanellopoulos was the nephew of
Dimitrios Gounaris
.
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