Dimitrios Oikonomou

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Dimitrios Oikonomou
Vice Admiral
Battles/warsBalkan Wars, World War II
AwardsWar Cross 1st Class

Dimitrios Oikonomou (

Greek monarchy
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Career

Dimitrios Oikonomou was born in

Goudi pronunciamiento in August 1909, as well as in the abortive revolt of Lt. Konstantinos Typaldos-Alfonsatos in October of the same year.[2]

Promoted to Sub-Lieutenant on 29 March 1910, he fought in the

29th Naval Landing Detachment. On 16 July 1913 he was promoted to Lieutenant First Class.[2]

In 1914 he finished a course in the Naval Gunnery School. During

Asia Minor Campaign on board the destroyer Aetos, he assumed the post of commander of the Palaio Faliro naval airfield.[2]

He then commanded the destroyer

Greek monarchy, and installed Georgios Kondylis as Prime Minister and Regent pending the return of the exiled King George II.[2]

On 21 February 1936, he was promoted to vice admiral. He remained in the post of Chief of the Navy General Staff until 19 December, when he was transferred to the post of Inspector-General of the Navy. In 1938–39 he held in tandem the position of Chief of Fleet Command.

collaborationist government in 1941–43.[2]

After liberation, on 31 August 1946 he was decorated with the War Cross First Class and the Distinguished Actions Medal for his role in the 1940–41 conflict.[2] He retired on 25 April 1947 and died at Syros on 11 September 1957.[2]

Other activities

In 1935, Oikonomou was a member of the Hellenic Olympic Committee, and from 1940 until 1944 he was chairman of the Yacht Club of Greece.[2] After his retirement, in 1953–57 he was chairman of the board of the Greek Sea Union, and of the Hellenic Maritime Museum.[2]

Oikonomou also published a number of historical works, including the archive of the

Suliots and the Botsaris family (Το Σούλι, οι Σουλιώτες και η Οικογένεια Μπότσαρη, 1954), as well as studies on the war record of the Navy during World War II (Πεπραγμένα του Β.Ν., 1947), and on Prince George of Greece and Denmark and the Greek naval programme (Η Α.Β.Υ. ο Πρίγκηψ Γεώργιος και το Ναυτικόν Πρόγραμμα της Χώρας, 1952).[2]

References

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  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r "Διατελέσαντες Αρχηγοί ΓΕΝ: Οικονόμου, Δημήτριος" (in Greek). Hellenic Navy. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
Military offices
Preceded by
Rear Admiral Periklis Dimoulis
 Chief of the Hellenic Navy General Staff
3 March 1935 – 19 December 1936 		Succeeded by
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