Ioannis Rallis

Ioannis Rallis (Greek Ιωάννης Δ Ράλλης; . * 1878 in Athens, † October 26, 1946 ) was a Greek politician and Prime Minister during the occupation of Greece by the German Wehrmacht ( 1943-1944 ).

Origin and study

Rallis came from a family with roots in the Byzantine period, their families since the 15th century dressed various public offices. He grew up as the son of the Prime Minister Dimitrios Rallis and studied after graduating from law at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and later postgraduate in France and Germany. After his return to Greece, he settled as a lawyer. His son Georgios Rallis was also short-term Prime Minister.

Political career

Member of Parliament

Rallis began his political career in 1905 with the election of deputies of the National Assembly ( Vouli ton Ellinon ). The Parliament he was a member until 1935. He first represented the interests of the People's Party (Greek Λαϊκό κόμμα ) of the later Prime Minister Dimitrios Gounaris and Panagis Tsaldaris.

In 1933 there were disagreements with Tsaldaris, so he ran for the elections of June 1935 as the candidate of the Party of Free Thinkers Ioannis Metaxas for Parliament. However, he failed re-election. In the election for the National Assembly on 26 January 1936, he successfully ran for the electoral alliance of Georgios Kondylis and Ioannis Theotokis. In the period following the political life was marked by great instability. Although the Liberal Party (Greek Κόμμα Φιλελευθέρων ) Themistoklis Sophoulis had the most parliamentary seats, but could not form a government. A few months later, it came on August 4, 1936 to the dissolution of the National Assembly by the dictator Metaxas. Rallis was a major critic of this resolution, despite his personal friendship with Metaxas.

Minister

On November 18, 1920 his father to the Secretary of the Navy appointed him to be an acting until February 6, 1921 the Cabinet. From August 26 1921 to March 2, 1922, he was then at the second cabinet of Gounaris as Minister of Economics. Later he was on 4 November 1932 and the January 16, 1933 Minister of Foreign Affairs in the first cabinet of Tsaldaris.

After the election victory of the People's Party in the parliamentary elections of 5 March 1933, he was appointed by Tsaldaris on March 10, 1933 Minister of the Interior. The Cabinet, he belonged to before 13 August 1933. However, after disagreements with the prime minister, he resigned and soon after made ​​from the People's Party.

Prime Minister under the German occupation and sentencing

On April 7, 1943 Rallis was appointed as successor by Konstantinos Logothetopoulos for the third (and last) Prime Minister during the occupation of Greece by the German Wehrmacht. It was preceded by conflicts with his son Georgios Rallis. Unlike his predecessor, he developed on behalf of the occupiers a strategy against resistance from the population by setting up so-called security battalions. Nevertheless, it came in the course of its ongoing until October 12, 1944 reign increasingly become a strengthening of the Greek resistance movement, which was formed from 10 March 1944 Euripides Bakirtzis and later Alexandros Svolos own governments in the areas under their control.

After the liberation of Greece in October 1944 he was arrested and subsequently sentenced by a special court for collaboration to life in prison, where he died. His son Georgios Rallis published a year after his death in 1947 posthumously written by him texts from prison time under the title Ioannis Rallis speaks from the grave.

• Prime Minister (Greece )
• Minister of Economic Affairs (Greece )
• Secretary of State (Greece )
• Greek collaboration
• Person ( Greek History )
• Born in 1878
• Died in 1946
• Man
• Greek