Alexandros Svolos
| Alexandros Svolos Aλέξανδρος Σβώλος |
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| Chairman of the Political Committee of National Liberation | |
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In office 18 April 1944 – 9 October 1944 |
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| Preceded by | Evripidis Bakirtzis |
| Succeeded by | Georgios Papandreou (as president of the government of national unity) |
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| Born | 1892 |
| Died | 22 February 1956 |
| Political party | Socialist Party of Greece, Union of People's Democracy |
| Spouse(s) | Maria Svolou |
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Professor of Law Politician |
Alexandros Svolos (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Σβώλος; 1892, Krousovo, Manastir Vilayet, Ottoman Empire – 22 February 1956, Athens, Greece) was a prominent Greek legal expert, who also served as president of the Political Committee of National Liberation, a Resistance-based government during the Axis occupation of Greece.
Svolos was born in 1892 in Kruševo, now in the Republic of Macedonia, then part of the Ottoman Empire. He studied law at Constantinople in 1911-1912, and from there went on to study at the University of Athens under Nikolaos Saripolos. In 1915 he was appointed to teach at the University.
Between 1917 and 1920, he was the head of the Labour and Social Policy Direction at the Ministry of National Economy, and helped to push through legislation ratifying the newly founded International Labour Organization's conventions. Subsequently, he was employed as head administrator at Bursa in Asia Minor, then occupied by the Greek Army, until 1922. He married feminist Maria Svolou in 1923.
In 1929 he succeeded his mentor, N. Saripolos, at the seat of Constitutional Law at Athens, a position he retained until 1946. Because of his left-leaning political views, he was dismissed in 1935 and again during the Metaxas Regime in 1936, when he was sent to internal exile in various Aegean islands.
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