Ioannis Pitsikas

Ioannis Pitsikas (

Mayor of Athens

and twice in cabinet posts in interim governments post-war.

Biography

Pitsikas was born in 1881 in the village of Kallithea in

Dachau Concentration Camp

in Germany.

Released from captivity after the war's end, he retired with the rank of lieutenant general. He was installed by the conservative governments as

Minister for Northern Greece in the caretaker cabinet of Konstantinos Dovas in 1961.^[1] He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of George I.^[1] He died on 6 July 1975 and was buried in the First Cemetery of Athens.^[2]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Ιωάννης Πιτσίκας (1881-1975)" (in Greek). Ο Μικρός Ρωμηός. Ηλεκτρονική Εφημερίδα του Μουσείου της Πόλεως των Αθηνών - Ιδρύματος Βούρου-Ευταξία. Retrieved 5 July 2015.
^ "Απεβίωσε και εκηδεύθη ο στρατηγός Ι. Πιτσίκας, διατελέσας διοικητής στρατιάς, υποθργός, δήμαρχος" (in Greek). Makedonia. 8 July 1975. Retrieved 1 August 2015.

Βιογραφική Εγκυκλοπαίδεια του Νεωτέρου Ελληνισμού 1830-2010, Vol. 3, pp. 196–197, Metron Publications

Preceded by Aristeidis Skliros	Mayor of Athens 18 May 1946 – 17 August 1950	Succeeded by Antonios Ragousis
Preceded by Georgios Mavros	Minister for National Defence of Greece 11 October – 23 November 1952	Succeeded by Alexander Papagos
Preceded by Avgoustos Theologitis	Minister for Northern Greece 24 September – 4 November 1961	Succeeded by Dionysios Manentis