Konstantinos Tsatsos

Konstantinos Tsatsos studied at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Heidelberg University and Varvakeion High School. The recorded working language is Modern Greek and German. The field of work recorded is philosophy. Employment is recorded with National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Positions recorded include President of Greece and Greek Minister of the Interior. Distinctions recorded are Bavarian Order of Merit and honorary doctor of the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne.

• Name — Konstantinos Tsatsos • Office — President of Greece • Term Start — 19 July 1975 • Term End — 10 May 1980 • Prime Minister — Konstantinos Karamanlis • Predecessor — Michail Stasinopoulos • Successor — Konstantinos Karamanlis • Born — 1 July 1899 • Birthplace — Athens, Kingdom of Greece • Died — 8 October 1987 • Place of death — Athens, Greece • Party — Liberal Party (Before 1955) National Radical Union (1955–1967) Independent (1967–1974) New Democracy (1974–1987) • Children — 2 • Alma Mater — University of Athens Heidelberg University

He was born in Athens in 1899. After graduating from the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 1918 he joined the diplomatic corps. After completing his doctoral studies (1924–1928) in Heidelberg, Weimar Republic Germany, he returned to Greece where he became a professor of law in 1933. In 1940, he was arrested and exiled for opposing the 4th of August Regime under Prime Minister of Greece Ioannis Metaxas. During the Axis occupation of Greece during World War II, Tsatsos participated in the Greek Resistance and then he fled to the Middle East, where the exiled Greek government was seated. After the end of World War II, in 1945 he returned to Greece and entered politics and became minister for the first time, serving as Interior Minister in the first cabinet of Vice Admiral Petros Voulgaris (8 April – 11 August 1945). In 1946, when he decided to participate more actively in the politics of Greece, he resigned from his post National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and then he became a member of the Liberal Party. After the formation of the National Radical Union by Constantine Karamanlis, in 1955 he became a member of the party and one of the closest colleagues of Karamanlis, although, ideologically, he was a centrist-liberal and not a conservative. • Illustration — Ioanna Tsatsou, née Seferiadi, wife He served as a member of parliament and in various ministerial positions until the Greek military junta of 1967–1974. Under the first premiership of Karamanlis (1955–1963) he served for many years as Minister of Public Administration. After the Metapolitefsi in 1974, he was elected again as a member of the Hellenic Parliament and became Minister for Culture. In 1975, he was elected President of the Republic by the parliament. He retired after serving his five-year term. He died in 1987 in Athens. He is buried in the First Cemetery. He was survived by his wife Ioanna, née Seferiadi, the sister of the Nobel laureate poet George Seferis who died in 2000.

• The Social Philosophy of Ancient Greeks, Athens: Estia, 1962 (in Greek). • Cicero, Athens: Estia, 1968 (in Greek). • Demosthenes, Athens: Estia, 1975 (in Greek).

• The Greek Course, Athens: Estia, 1967. • Anathemas and meditations, 4 Volumes, Athens: Estia, 1983–1991 (in Greek). • The Modern World, Athens: Editions of the Friends, 1992 (in Greek).

Konstantinos Tsatsos worked in philosophy. He was employed by National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Recorded positions include President of Greece, Greek Minister of the Interior, Minister at the Presidency of the Government of Greece, Minister of Aviation of Greece and Minister of Justice of Greece. He belonged to Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco and Romanian Academy.

Konstantinos Tsatsos is recorded as having studied at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Heidelberg University and Varvakeion High School.