Dimitrios Maximos

Greek banker and politician

Δημήτριος Μάξιμος

A photograph of Dimitrios Maximos

Prime Minister of GreeceIn office
24 January 1947 – 29 August 1947MonarchGeorge II
PaulPreceded byKonstantinos TsaldarisSucceeded byKonstantinos TsaldarisForeign MinisterIn office
10 March 1933 – 3 March 1935PresidentAlexandros ZaimisPrime MinisterPanagis TsaldarisPreceded byNikolaos MavroudisSucceeded byPanagis TsaldarisSenatorIn office
31 March 1933 – 1 April 1935PresidentAlexandros ZaimisPrime MinisterPanagis Tsaldaris Personal detailsBorn(1873-07-06)6 July 1873
Patras, Kingdom of GreeceDied17 October 1955(1955-10-17) (aged 82)
Athens, Kingdom of GreecePolitical partyPeople's PartyRelationsAndreas Londos
Stefanos Streit (uncle)
Georgios Streit (cousin)Alma materUniversity of Athens
University of ParisOccupationBankerProfessionBanker
Politician

Dimitrios E. Maximos (Greek: Δημήτριος Μάξιμος; 6 July 1873^[1] – 17 October 1955)^[2] was a Greek banker and politician. He briefly served as Prime Minister of Greece after World War II.^[3]

Life

Maximos was born on 6 July 1873 in Patras.^[4] He began his career in banking in 1891 and was employed at the National Bank of Greece. In 1920 Maximos became governor of the bank before resigning in 1922.^[4] Between 1933 and 1935, he became Foreign Minister of the government of Panagis Tsaldaris. He was Prime Minister of Greece in 1947.^[3]

He died on 17 October 1955.

His home in central Athens, the Maximos Mansion, serves since 1982 as the official seat of the Prime Minister of Greece.

References

^ Note: Greece officially adopted the Gregorian calendar on 16 February 1923 (which became 1 March). All dates prior to that, unless specifically denoted, are Old Style.
^ Obituaries on File: A-R. Facts on File. 1979. p. 387.
^ ^a ^b Sfikas, Athanasios D. (2019-08-07). British Labour Government and The Greek Civil War: 1945-1949. Edinburgh University Press. p. 280. ISBN 978-1-4744-7249-4. MAXIMOS , Dimitrios : Governor of the Bank of Greece ; Populist ; Prime Minister , January - August 1947
^ ^a ^b British Documents on Foreign Affairs: Greece, Italy and Trieste, Portugal, Spain, and the Vatican, 1952. LexisNexis. 2006. p. 84. ISBN 978-0-88692-724-0. Maximos, Dimitrios Born 1873 at Patras and entered the National Bank of Greece in 1891.

Political offices
Preceded by Nikolaos Mavroudis	Foreign Minister of Greece 1933–1935	Succeeded by Panagis Tsaldaris
Preceded by Panagis Tsaldaris	Foreign Minister of Greece 1935	Succeeded by Ioannis Theotokis
Preceded by Konstantinos Tsaldaris	Prime Minister of Greece 25 January – 29 August 1947	Succeeded by Konstantinos Tsaldaris

Heads of government of Greece

First Hellenic Republic
(1822–1832)

Kingdom of Greece (Wittelsbach)
(1833–1862)

Kingdom of Greece (Interregnum)
(1862–1863)

Kingdom of Greece (Glücksburg)
(1863–1924)

Second Hellenic Republic
(1924–1935)

Kingdom of Greece (Glücksburg)
(1935–1973)

Military Junta
(1967–1974)

Third Hellenic Republic
(since 1974)

¹Head of military/dictatorial government. ²Head of rival government not controlling Athens. ³Head of emergency or caretaker government. ⁴Head of collaborationist government during the Axis occupation (1941–44).

v t e Foreign ministers of Greece
First Hellenic Republic (1822–1832)	Negris^§ Al. Mavrokordatos^§ Glarakis^§ Sp. Trikoupis^§^†
Kingdom of Greece (Wittelsbach) (1833–1862)	Sp. Trikoupis Al. Mavrokordatos Rizos-Neroulos von Rudhart Zografos Paikos Christidis Rizos-Neroulos P. Deligiannis A. Metaxas Mansolas Sp. Trikoupis Kolettis Tzavelas Kolettis Tzavelas Mansolas Kolokotronis Londos Glarakis Londos P. Deligiannis Paikos Argyropoulos Al. Mavrokordatos Sp. Trikoupis Rangavis Palamidis Thr. Zaimis Krestenitis Papalexopoulos Christopoulos Theocharis
Kingdom of Greece (Glücksburg) (1863–1924)	Diamantopoulos Kalligas D. Mavrokordatos Diligiannis Kalligas P. Deligiannis Diligiannis Kalligas Diligiannis Boudouris Vrailas-Armenis Deligeorgis Christopoulos Koumoundouros Deligeorgis Valasopoulos Valaoritis Deligeorgis Ch. Trikoupis P. Deligiannis Diligiannis Valaoritis Deligeorgis Christopoulos Thr. Zaimis D. Voulgaris Spiliotakis I. Deligiannis Ch. Trikoupis Kontostavlos Deligeorgis Kontostavlos Deligeorgis Koumoundouros Ch. Trikoupis Diligiannis Ch. Trikoupis Diligiannis Ch. Trikoupis Koumoundouros Rikakis Ch. Trikoupis Koumoundouros Diligiannis Louriotis S. Dragoumis L. Deligiorgis Meletopoulos S. Dragoumis Kontostavlos N. Deligiannis Skouzes Skouloudis Al. Zaimis Romanos Al. Zaimis Skouzes G. Theotokis D. Rallis Romanos Skouzes Baltatzis Christakis-Zografos Mavromichalis Kallergis Gryparis Koromilas Panas Streit El. Venizelos Christakis-Zografos Gounaris El. Venizelos Al. Zaimis Skouloudis Al. Zaimis Karapanos Zalokostas Al. Zaimis Politis D. Rallis Kalogeropoulos Baltatzis Stratos Baltatzis Kalogeropoulos Papanastasiou
Second Hellenic Republic (1924–1935)	Roussos Rendis Roussos Michalakopoulos Hatzikyriakos Rendis Hatzikyriakos Kanakaris-Roufos Argyropoulos Michalakopoulos Karapanos Argyropoulos Michalakopoulos Papanastasiou Michalakopoulos I. Rallis Michalakopoulos Mavroudis Maximos P. Tsaldaris Maximos P. Tsaldaris Maximos I. Theotokis
Kingdom of Greece (Glücksburg) (1935–1973)	Demertzis I. Metaxas Koryzis Tsouderos G. Papandreou (Sr.) Sofianopoulos P. Voulgaris Politis Kanellopoulos Sofianopoulos Rendis K. Tsaldaris Pipinelis S. Venizelos Plastiras S. Venizelos Politis S. Venizelos F. Dragoumis Stefanopoulos S. Theotokis Averoff Pesmazoglou Averoff Pesmazoglou Averoff Pipinelis Oikonomou-Gouras S. Venizelos Xanthopoulos-Palamas Kostopoulos Melas Tsirimokos Stefanopoulos Toumbas Oikonomou-Gouras
Military Junta (1967–1974)	Oikonomou-Gouras Kollias Pipinelis Papadopoulos Xanthopoulos-Palamas Tetenes
Third Hellenic Republic (since 1974)	Kypraios Mavros Bitsios Papaligouras G. Rallis Mitsotakis Charalambopoulos K. Papoulias G. Papoulias Samaras Mitsotakis Papakonstantinou K. Papoulias Pangalos G. Papandreou (Jr) Giannitsis Molyviatis Bakoyannis G. Papandreou (Jr) Droutsas Lambrinidis Dimas Molyviatis Avramopoulos Ev. Venizelos Kotzias Molyviatis Kotzias Tsipras Katrougalos Dendias Kaskarelis Gerapetritis
^§ variously as Chief Secretary/General Secretary of State ^† officially considered the first foreign minister of independent Greece