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Constantine Tsatsos

Konstantinos Tsatsos
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President of Greece
In office
19 July 1975 – 10 May 1980
Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis
Preceded by Michail Stasinopoulos
Succeeded by Konstantinos Karamanlis
Personal details
Born (1899-07-01)1 July 1899
Athens, Greece
Died 8 October 1987(1987-10-08) (aged 88)
Athens, Greece
Political party Liberal Party (Before 1955)
National Radical Union (1955–1967)
Independent (1967–1974)
New Democracy (1974–1987)
Spouse(s) Ioanna Seferiadou
Alma mater University of Athens
Heidelberg University

Konstantinos Tsatsos (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Τσάτσος; July 1, 1899 – October 8, 1987) was a revered Greek diplomat, professor of law, scholar and politician. He served as the second President of the Third Hellenic Republic from 1975 to 1980.

He was born in Athens in 1899. After graduating from the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 1918 he joined the diplomatic corps. After completing his doctoral studies (1924-1928) in Heidelberg, Weimar Republic Germany, he returned to Greece where he became a professor of law in 1933. In 1940, he was arrested and exiled for opposing the 4th of August Regime under Prime Minister of Greece Ioannis Metaxas. During the Axis occupation of Greece during World War II, Tsatsos participated in the Greek Resistance and then he fled to the Middle East, where the exiled Greek government was seated.

After the end of World War II, in 1945 he returned to Greece and entered politics and became minister for the first time, serving as Interior Minister in the first cabinet of Vice Admiral Petros Voulgaris (8 April – 11 August 1945). In 1946, when he decided to participate more actively in the politics of Greece, he resigned from his post National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and then he became a member of the Liberal Party. After the formation of the National Radical Union by Constantine Karamanlis, in 1955 he became a member of the party and one of the closest colleagues of Karamanlis, although, ideologically, he was a centrist-liberal and not a conservative.


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