Petros Protopapadakis
Πέτρος Πρωτοπαπαδάκης
Petros Protopapadakis
Prime Minister of Greece
In office
9 May 1922 – 28 August 1922
Preceded byNikolaos Stratos
Succeeded byNikolaos Triantafyllakos
Personal details
Born(1860-12-31)December 31, 1860
Apeiranthos, Naxos
DiedNovember 28, 1922(1922-11-28) (aged 68)
Athens, Greece
NationalityGreek
Political partyNationalist Party, People's Party
OccupationPolitician, Professor

Petros Protopapadakis (Greek: Πέτρος Πρωτοπαπαδάκης; 1854–1922[1]) was a politician and Prime Minister of Greece from May to September 1922.[2]

Life and work

Born in 1860 in Apeiranthos, Naxos, Protopapadakis studied mathematics and engineering in Paris but was keenly interested in politics.[3] He was a professor at the Scholi Evelpidon, the military academy of Greece.

Protopadakis was elected to the Hellenic Parliament in 1902 as a member of the conservative Nationalist Party. He later joined the People's Party and served as Minister of Economy and later, in the government of Dimitrios Gounaris, he was the Justice Minister (1921–22). In 1922, during the ill-fated Greco-Turkish War, Protopapadakis was asked to form a government by King Constantine when Gounaris resigned after almost losing a vote of confidence. Protopapadakis became Prime Minister and Gounaris the Justice Minister. Protopapadakis remained in his position for a little more than 3 months, as he was overthrown by a military coup d'état.

Death

Protopapadakis was executed in the Trial of the Six proceedings at Goudi on November 1922, along with the other five most senior members of his government.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Note: Greece officially adopted the Gregorian calendar on 16 February 1923 (which became 1 March). All dates prior to that, unless specifically denoted, are Old Style.
  2. ↑ Graça, J. Da; Graça, John Da (2017-02-13). Heads of State and Government. Springer. p. 396. ISBN 978-1-349-65771-1.
  3. 1 2 Smith, Michael Llewellyn (1998). Ionian Vision: Greece in Asia Minor, 1919-1922. Hurst. p. 341. ISBN 978-1-85065-368-4.
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