Konstantinos Miliotis-Komninos

Konstantinos Miliotis-Komninos
Flag presentation to a newly formed unit of the National Defence army in 1916/17. Miliotis-Komninos is second from left.
Born	1854 Istanbul
Died	1941 Athens
Allegiance	Kingdom of Greece
Service/branch	Hellenic Army
Years of service	1877–1920
Rank	Lieutenant General
Wars	Greco-Turkish War of 1897, Balkan Wars, Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922

Konstantinos Miliotis-Komninos (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Μηλιώτης-Κομνηνός, 1854–1941) was a Greek Army officer who rose to the rank of Lieutenant General. He was also an amateur swordsman, competing in the 1896 Athens Olympics. He also served in the Organizing Committee for the 1906 Intercalated Games.

Konstantinos Miliotis-Komninos was born in Istanbul in 1854, and enlisted in the Greek Army on 11 April 1877 as a volunteer, serving in the cavalry. He fought in the Greco-Turkish War of 1897 and the Balkan Wars, where he held the rank of Colonel and commanded the 6th Infantry Division. During the First World War, he supported the Venizelist Movement of National Defence, and became Minister of War in the provisional government on 6 December 1916. In 1919, as a Lieutenant General, he became the first head of the Army of Asia Minor in the Smyrna Zone allocated to Greece by the Treaty of Sèvres, until the arrival of Lt. Gen. Leonidas Paraskevopoulos. He was dismissed from the Army on 29 November 1920, following the Venizelist defeat in the elections of the same month.

He was killed on 12 June 1941, shortly after the German occupation of Greece. He was mortally wounded in the head in a scuffle with a German sentry, who tried to prohibit his entrance in the Athens Club, which had been shut down by the German authorities due to its members' demonstrations of solidarity with British prisoners of war.