{{Short description|Greek Army officer and politician (1881–1939)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Georgios Katechakis | image = File:Υποστράτηγος Κατεχάκης.png | caption = Georgios Katechakis {{circa}} 1922 | branch = {{army|Greece}} | death_date = 22 April 1939 | birth_date = {{circa}} 1881 | birth_place = [[Heraklion (regional unit)|Pompia]], [[Crete]], [[Ottoman Empire]] (now [[Greece]]) | death_place = [[Athens]], [[Kingdom of Greece]] | allegiance = {{flagicon|Greece|royal}} [[Kingdom of Greece]]<br>{{Flagicon|Greece|old}} [[Provisional Government of National Defence]]<br>{{Flagicon|Greece|old}} [[Second Hellenic Republic]] | battles = {{tree list}} *[[Macedonian Struggle]] *[[Balkan Wars]] *[[World War I]] **[[Macedonian Front]] {{tree list/end}} | alma_mater = [[Hellenic Army Academy]] | commands = Cretan Volunteer Corps<br>[[11th Infantry Division (Greece)|11th Infantry Division]]<br>[[National Defence Army Corps]] | rank = [[File:GR-Army-OF7-1912.svg|15px]] [[Major General]] | service_years = 1902–1920<br>1922–1923 | native_name = Γεώργιος Κατεχάκης | office = [[Minister of Military Affairs (Greece)|Minister of Military Affairs]] | office3 = [[List of rulers of Crete|Minister Governor-General of Crete]] | office4 = Minister Governor-General of [[Western Thrace|Thrace]] | term_start = 16 January | term_end = 6 March 1933 | term_start1 = 22 December 1930 | term_end1 = 26 May 1932 | term_start2 = 25 July | term_end2 = 7 October 1924 | term_start3 = 10 March 1928 | term_end3 = 22 December 1930 | term_start4 = 1922 | term_end4 = 1923 | prime_minister = [[Eleftherios Venizelos]] | prime_minister1 = [[Eleftherios Venizelos]] | prime_minister2 = [[Themistoklis Sofoulis]] | prime_minister3 = [[Alexandros Zaimis]]<br>[[Eleftherios Venizelos]] | prime_minister4 = [[Nikolaos Triantafyllakos]]<br>[[Anastasios Charalambis]]<br>[[Sotirios Krokidas]]<br>[[Stylianos Gonatas]] | successor = [[Alexandros Othonaios]] | successor1 = [[Alexandros Papanastasiou]] | successor2 = [[Andreas Michalakopoulos]] | successor3 = Nikolaos Askoutis | predecessor = [[Georgios Kondylis]] | predecessor3 = Titos Georgiadis | predecessor2 = [[Theodoros Pangalos (general)|Theodoros Pangalos]] | predecessor1 = [[Eleftherios Venizelos]] }} '''Georgios Katechakis''' ({{langx|el|Γεώργιος Κατεχάκης}}; 1881–1939) was a [[Hellenic Army]] officer and politician. He distinguished himself with his participation in the [[Macedonian Struggle]] under the [[nom de guerre]] '''''Kapetan'' Rouvas''' (Καπετάν Ρούβας) in 1904–1905. An ardent [[Venizelist]], he participated in the [[Movement of National Defence]]. After his retirement from the army with the rank of [[Major General]], he entered politics, being elected into the [[Greek Parliament]] and the [[Greek Senate]]. He also served three times as Minister for Military Affairs and as [[Governor-General#Greece|Governor-General]] for [[Western Thrace|Thrace]] (1922–1923) and for [[Crete]] (1928–1930).
== Early life and military career == Georgios Katechakis was born in the village of Pompia,<ref name="pompia">{{Cite web|url=https://www.greekencyclopedia.com/katexakis-gewrgios-pompia-irakleioy-kritis-1881-irakleio-1938-p2673.html|title=Κατεχάκης, Γεώργιος (Πόμπια Ηρακλείου Κρήτης, 1881 - Ηράκλειο, 1938) - Εκδοτική Αθηνών Α.Ε.|website=www.greekencyclopedia.com|accessdate=2024-10-31}}</ref> in then [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]]-controlled Crete. His father was [[Antonios Katechakis]], one of the main leaders of the [[Cretan Revolt of 1866–1869]]. The elder Katechakis also participated in the uprisings of 1878, 1889 and 1896 and was repeatedly elected to the Cretan Parliament until his death. Georgios Katechakis entered the [[Hellenic Army Academy]] and graduated in 1902, being commissioned into the [[Hellenic Army]] on 6 July 1902 with the rank of a Lieutenant of Infantry.<ref name="enc">{{cite book | script-title=el:Μεγάλη Στρατιωτική και Ναυτική Εγκυκλοπαιδεία. Τόμος Δ′: Καβάδης – Μωριάς |trans-title=Great Military and Naval Encyclopedia. Volume IV | location = Athens | year = 1929 | language= el | page = 98}}</ref><ref name="patris">{{cite web | url=http://www.patris.gr/articles/131904?PHPSESSID=6o24stn0ock7f4q7qlb2r8kts3 | script-title=el:Ο στρατηγός Γιώργος Κατεχάκης | trans-title=General Georgios Katechakis | publisher=Πατρίς, Πρωινή Καθημερινή Εφημερίδα της Κρήτης | access-date=5 January 2012 | author=Dimitrios Savvas | language=el | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110409024244/http://www.patris.gr/articles/131904?PHPSESSID=6o24stn0ock7f4q7qlb2r8kts3 | archive-date=9 April 2011 | url-status=dead }}</ref> He was one of the first officers to volunteer for the [[Macedonian Struggle]] against the [[Bulgaria]]n-sponsored [[Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization]] (IMRO). Under the pseudonym of "K''apetan'' [[Rouvas]]", he led an armed band in the regions of [[Grevena]], [[Kastoria]] and [[Monastir, Macedonia|Monastir]].<ref name="enc"/><ref name="patris"/> He returned to Greece in 1908, and was dispatched to Crete to assist in the establishment of a local national guard. By the time the [[Balkan Wars]] broke out in 1912, he had risen to the rank of captain. He participated in the wars as leader of various Cretan volunteer corps, fighting both in [[Macedonia (region)|Macedonia]] and in [[Epirus]].<ref name="enc"/>
In 1914, promoted to major, he was assigned as chief of staff to the [[11th Infantry Division (Greece)|11th Infantry Division]] in [[Thessaloniki]]. From there he participated in the [[Venizelist]] [[Movement of National Defence|National Defence uprising]] in August 1916, that led to the establishment of a parallel, pro-[[Triple Entente|Entente]] government in northern Greece under [[Eleftherios Venizelos]]. He initially served as director of personnel in the National Defence government's Ministry of Military Affairs, and in 1917 he was assigned as chief of staff to the newly raised [[National Defence Army Corps]], which fought in the [[Macedonian front]].<ref name="enc"/> Following the end of the [[First World War]], in 1919 he was sent to [[Istanbul|Constantinople]] as head of the Greek military delegation there, a post he held until he was dismissed from the army, with the rank of major general, following the [[1920 Greek legislative election|electoral victory]] of the anti-Venizelist royalist parties in November 1920.<ref name="enc"/>
Katechakis was recalled to active duty in September 1922, following the Greek defeat in the [[Asia Minor Campaign]] and the Venizelist-led [[September 1922 Revolution]]. He was placed by the revolutionary government as [[Governor-General#Greece|Governor-General]] of [[Western Thrace|Thrace]] (where a recommencement of hostilities with the Turks was expected should peace negotiations in [[Lausanne]] fail), remaining at the post until after the signing of the [[Treaty of Lausanne]] in 1923 when he retired from military service.<ref name="enc"/>
== Political career == In the [[1923 Greek legislative election|December 1923 elections]], Katechakis was elected to the National Assembly representing [[Heraklion Prefecture]].<ref name="enc"/> He served as Minister for Military Affairs in the short-lived [[Themistoklis Sofoulis]] cabinet (25 July – 7 October 1924).<ref name="enc"/><ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.ggk.gov.gr/?p=947 | script-title=el:Κυβέρνησις ΘΕΜΙΣΤΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ ΣΟΦΟΥΛΗ - Από 25.7.1924 έως 7.10.1924 | publisher=General Secretariat of the Government | language=el | access-date=9 January 2012}}</ref> On 10 March 1928, he was appointed to the post of Governor-General of Crete, which was raised to the rank of a cabinet minister, a post he retained until 22 December 1930 under the premierships of [[Alexandros Zaimis]] and Venizelos.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.ggk.gov.gr/?p=970 | script-title=el:Κυβέρνησις ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ ΖΑΪΜΗ - Από 8.2.1928 έως 4.7.1928 | publisher=General Secretariat of the Government | language=el | access-date=9 January 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120322194522/http://www.ggk.gov.gr/?p=970 | archive-date=22 March 2012 | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.ggk.gov.gr/?p=976 | script-title=el:Κυβέρνησις ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΙΟΥ ΒΕΝΙΖΕΛΟΥ - Από 4.7.1928 έως 7.6.1929 | publisher=General Secretariat of the Government | language=el | access-date=9 January 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.ggk.gov.gr/?p=979 | script-title=el:Κυβέρνησις ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΙΟΥ ΒΕΝΙΖΕΛΟΥ - Από 7.6.1929 έως 16.12.1929 | publisher=General Secretariat of the Government | language=el | access-date=9 January 2012}}</ref><ref name="Venizelos1929-1932">{{cite web | url = http://www.ggk.gov.gr/?p=982 | script-title=el:Κυβέρνησις ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΙΟΥ ΒΕΝΙΖΕΛΟΥ - Από 16.12.1929 έως 26.5.1932 | publisher=General Secretariat of the Government | language=el | access-date=9 January 2012}}</ref> In the meantime, in April 1929 Katechakis was [[1929 Greek Senate election|elected]] to the [[Greek Senate]].<ref name="enc"/> On 22 December 1930, Katechakis was appointed by Venizelos as Minister for Military Affairs, a post he held until the resignation of the Venizelos cabinet on 26 May 1932.<ref name="Venizelos1929-1932"/> Katechakis served for a third time as Minister for Military Affairs in the short-lived 1933 Venizelos cabinet.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.ggk.gov.gr/?p=995 | script-title=el:Κυβέρνησις ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΙΟΥ ΒΕΝΙΖΕΛΟΥ - Από 16.1.1933 έως 6.3.1933 | publisher=General Secretariat of the Government | language=el | access-date=9 January 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120322194115/http://www.ggk.gov.gr/?p=995 | archive-date=22 March 2012 | url-status=dead }}</ref>
Georgios Katechakis died on 22 April 1939.<ref name="patris"/>
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{{s-start}} {{s-off}} {{s-bef | before=[[Theodoros Pangalos (general)|Theodoros Pangalos]]}} {{s-ttl | title= [[List of defence ministers of Greece|Minister for Military Affairs]] of [[Greece]] | years=25 July – 7 October 1924}} {{s-aft | after= [[Andreas Michalakopoulos]]}} {{s-bef | before= Titos Georgiadis | as=Governor-General of Crete}} {{s-ttl | title= [[Minister Governor-General of Crete]]| years=10 March 1928 – 22 December 1930}} {{s-aft | after= Nikolaos Askoutsis}} {{s-bef | before=[[Eleftherios Venizelos]]}} {{s-ttl | title= [[List of defence ministers of Greece|Minister for Military Affairs]] of [[Greece]] | years=22 December 1930 – 26 May 1932}} {{s-aft | after= [[Alexandros Papanastasiou]]<br />''(pro tempore)''}} {{s-bef | before=[[Georgios Kondylis]]}} {{s-ttl | title= [[List of defence ministers of Greece|Minister for Military Affairs]] of [[Greece]] | years=16 January – 6 March 1933}} {{s-aft | after= [[Alexandros Othonaios]]}} {{s-end}}
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