Konstantinos Nider

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Konstantinos Nider (1865 - 1943) was a Greek military figure of the early part of the 20th Century.

Nider was born in Mesolonghi in 1865, the son of Bavarian-born doctor Franz X. Nider. He studied at the Greek Military Academy, graduating in 1887.

Nider participated in WW I on the Macedonian Front. Later, he became commander-in-chief of the Greek forces that took part in the Ukraine Expedition in the aftermath of World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution. He led two divisions of the A' Army Corps that landed in Crimea in January 1919. The Greek troops were attached to the French Army in the sector.

Afterwards, Major General Nider took part in the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922). In its aftermath, he headed the Army of Thrace.

He served as Minister of the Military in 1926.

Nider died in German-occupied Athens in 1943.