Georgios Bakos
Georgios Bakos | |
|---|---|
Γεώργιος Μπάκος | |
| Minister of National Defense of Greece | |
| In office 30 April 1941 – 7 April 1943 | |
| Prime Minister | Georgios Tsolakoglou Konstantinos Logothetopoulos |
| Preceded by | Theodoras Panagakos |
| Succeeded by | Ioannis Rallis |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Georgios Bakos 1892 Mani, Kingdom of Greece |
| Died | January 6, 1945 (aged 52) |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  Kingdom of Greece Second Hellenic Republic Hellenic State |
| Branch/service | Greek Army |
| Years of service | 1919—1945 |
| Rank | Major general |
| Battles/wars | |
Georgios Bakos (Template:Lang-el, 1892–1945) was a Greek Army officer.
Born in Mani in 1892, he became a career officer and fought in the Asia Minor Campaign. As a Major General, he commanded the 3rd Infantry Division in the Greco-Italian War of 1940–41.
After the German invasion of Greece and the Greek Army's capitulation, he served as Minister of National Defence in the collaborationist government set up by Lt. General Georgios Tsolakoglou on 30 April 1941, and retained the post under Tsolakoglou's successor Konstantinos Logothetopoulos, until the Logothetopoulos cabinet's resignation on 7 April 1943.[1] An ardent Germanophile, Bakos tried, without success, to raise a Greek volunteer unit to fight along the German Wehrmacht in the Eastern Front.[2]
During the Dekemvriana he was taken prisoner by EAM-ELAS guerrillas, and after a court-martial was executed as a traitor on 6 January 1945.
References
- ^ ΚΥΒΕΡΝΗΣΕΙΣ (Κατά την διάρκειαν της Εχθρικής Κατοχής της Χώρας) - Από 30.4.1941 έως 10.10.1944 (in Greek). General Secretariat of the Government. Retrieved 9 January 2012.
- ^ Close, David H. (2013). The Origins of the Greek Civil War. Routledge. p. 62. ISBN 1317898524.
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