Viktor Dousmanis

Viktor Dousmanis
Dousmanis in the 1910s
Born	1861 Corfu
Died	1949
Allegiance	Greece
Service/branch	Hellenic Army
Years of service	1883–1917, 1920–1922
Rank	Lieutenant General
Wars	Greco-Turkish War of 1897, Balkan Wars, Asia Minor Campaign
Relations	Sofoklis Dousmanis (brother)

Viktor Dousmanis (Greek: Βίκτωρ Δούσμανης, 1861–1949) was a Greek military officer, who rose to the rank of Lieutenant General. He distinguished himself as a staff officer during the Balkan Wars and became a leading royalist during the National Schism, serving three terms as Chief of the Hellenic Army General Staff.

He was born in Corfu in 1861, a descendant of a branch of the Albanian Dushmani family that had emigrated to the island in the 15th century; he is the elder brother of Sofoklis Dousmanis and grandson of Antonio Dusmani. He entered the Hellenic Army Academy, from which he graduated in 1883 as an Engineer 2nd Lieutenant. Promoted to Lieutenant in 1886 and Captain in 1890, he participated in the Greco-Turkish War of 1897 as an officer in the staff of the Greek Commander-in-Chief, Crown Prince Constantine. In 1899–1904, he served as head of the Staff Service of the Greek Ministry of Military Affairs, and in 1904, with the foundation of the Army General Staff, he was transferred to the General Staff Corps. He was promoted to Major in 1906 and Lt Colonel in 1909. During the First Balkan War of 1912–1913 against the Ottoman Empire, he was Chief of Operations for the main Greek force, the Army of Thessaly, again under Crown Prince Constantine. In the Second Balkan War against Bulgaria in the summer of 1913, he served as chief of staff to the field army, again under Constantine, who had by now become King. In the same year, he was promoted to Colonel and then to Major General.