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Averoff first held office in February [[1941]] when he was appointed prefect ("nomarch") of [[Corfu]] [[prefecture]]. He left the post after Corfu was occupied but not before organising a resistance movement to the Italian occupying force. In the next year ([[April 28]], [[1942]], Averoff was arrested by the Italians for resistance-related activities and was imprisoned in a concentration camp in Italy. | Averoff first held office in February [[1941]] when he was appointed prefect ("nomarch") of [[Corfu]] [[prefecture]]. He left the post after Corfu was occupied but not before organising a resistance movement to the Italian occupying force. In the next year ([[April 28]], [[1942]], Averoff was arrested by the Italians for resistance-related activities and was imprisoned in a concentration camp in Italy. | ||
| − | When the [[World War II|war]] was over, Averoff resumed his political career as member of Parliament from [[Ioannina prefecture|Ioannina]] and Minister in several governments ([[Alexandros Diomedes]], [[Sophoklis Venizelos]], [[Nikolaos Plastiras]]) before switching his allegiance from the political Centre to the conservative [[National Radical Union]] (ERE). | + | When the [[World War II|war]] was over, Averoff resumed his political career as member of Parliament from [[Ioannina prefecture|Ioannina]] and Minister in several governments ([[Themistoklis Sofoulis]], [[Alexandros Diomedes]], [[Sophoklis Venizelos]], [[Nikolaos Plastiras]]) before switching his allegiance from the political Centre to the conservative [[National Radical Union]] (ERE). |
Averoff continued serving as MP and Minister under [[Constantine Karamanlis]] and briefly under [[Panagiotis Kanellopoulos]]. When the Kanellopoulos government was overthrown by a coup d' etat, on [[April 21]], [[1967]], Averoff started writing and established the Averoff Foundation. However, he also stayed in touch with politics, publishing and distributing underground material and also being Karamanlis' (who was in Paris) eyes and ears in Greece. | Averoff continued serving as MP and Minister under [[Constantine Karamanlis]] and briefly under [[Panagiotis Kanellopoulos]]. When the Kanellopoulos government was overthrown by a coup d' etat, on [[April 21]], [[1967]], Averoff started writing and established the Averoff Foundation. However, he also stayed in touch with politics, publishing and distributing underground material and also being Karamanlis' (who was in Paris) eyes and ears in Greece. | ||
Revision as of 10:10, January 2, 2006
Evangelos Averoff-Tositsas was a Greek politician and writer.
Averoff was born in Trikala, Thessaly, in 1910 however, his family origins were from Metsovo in Epirus. He studied law and political science in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Averoff first held office in February 1941 when he was appointed prefect ("nomarch") of Corfu prefecture. He left the post after Corfu was occupied but not before organising a resistance movement to the Italian occupying force. In the next year (April 28, 1942, Averoff was arrested by the Italians for resistance-related activities and was imprisoned in a concentration camp in Italy.
When the war was over, Averoff resumed his political career as member of Parliament from Ioannina and Minister in several governments (Themistoklis Sofoulis, Alexandros Diomedes, Sophoklis Venizelos, Nikolaos Plastiras) before switching his allegiance from the political Centre to the conservative National Radical Union (ERE).
Averoff continued serving as MP and Minister under Constantine Karamanlis and briefly under Panagiotis Kanellopoulos. When the Kanellopoulos government was overthrown by a coup d' etat, on April 21, 1967, Averoff started writing and established the Averoff Foundation. However, he also stayed in touch with politics, publishing and distributing underground material and also being Karamanlis' (who was in Paris) eyes and ears in Greece.
When democracy was restored to Greece in 1974, Averoff became Karamanlis' Foreign Minister serving in that post also in the government of George Rallis.
In December 1981, after the defeat of the New Democracy party, George Rallis resigned as party leader and Averoff was elected to succeed him. He relinquished the leadership of the New Democracy party in 1984 but continued his political career until his death on January 2, 1990.