Konstantinos Tsaldaris

Konstantinos Tsaldaris

Konstantinos Tsaldaris (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Τσαλδάρης) (Born 1884 in Alexandria, Egypt - Died 1970 in Athens) was a Prime Minister of Greece two times

He studied law at the University of Athens as well as Berlin, London and Florence. He became a prefectural politician from 1915 to 1917.

In 1926, he was a politician for the first time for Argolidocorinthia (now split into Argolis and Corinthia) with the free thinking party. In 1928, he was a member of the People's Party which the leader was his uncle Panagis Tsaldaris. He was a politician during the second government of Panagis Tsaldaris as undersecretary from 1933 to 1935. and continued as undersecretary instead of prime minister. After the death of Panagis Tsaldaris in 1936, he became a member of the administrative commissioner of the Popular Party which was cut off by the dictator government on the 4th of August.

He won in the 1946 elections as leader of the coalition "United Free-Thinking? Party" and became prime minister of Greece from April 1946 through January 1947.

He was a minority leader during the governments of Dimitrios Maximos (1947), Themistoklis Sofoulis (1947-1949) and Alexandros Diomedes (1949 - 1950). He once again became prime minister from August 1947 until September of the same year.

With the coming to power of the Greek Rally of Alexandros Papagos, the People's party lost the large part of the elective base and Tsaldaris did not win in the 1952 election. He became a politician of the Democratic Union, in the 1958 election, as head of the People's Party Union, he was unelected. He shortly left political power. He died in Athens in 1970.

Preceded by: Panagiotis Poulitsas

Prime Minister of Greece 1946–1947

Succeeded by: Dimitrios Maximos

Preceded by: Dimitrios Maximos

Prime Minister of Greece 1947

Succeeded by: Themistoklis Sofoulis