Education
War Academy, Artillery School, and Officers" Training School in Middle East.
brother of Konstantinos Papadopoulos (q v)
War Academy, Artillery School, and Officers" Training School in Middle East.
Served on Albanian front in Greek-Italian war 1940. Joined national resistance units during German occupation. Staff Officer 1944-1945, Intelligence Officer 1945-1946.
Commander Artillery Battery 1946.
Training Officer, Artillery School 1946-1948. • ommdr. 131st Mountain Artillery Unit 1948, 144th Mountain Artillery Unit 1948-1949.
Then Artillery Instructor and Unit Commander 1949-1954. Intelligence Bureau, Army General Staff 1954.
Chief of Staff, Artillery Division 1955-1957.
General Intelligence Service 1959-1964. Commander 117th Field Artillery Unit 65, First Army Force 1965-1966. At Third Staff Bureau, Army General Staff 1966-1967.
Led military coup to overthrow government April 1967, Minister to Prime Minister’ General’ s Office April-Dee.
1967; Prime Minister, Minister of Defence and Minister to Prime Minister’ General’ s Office 1967-1973, also Minister of Education 1969-1970, of Foreign Affairs 1970-1973, Regent 1972-1973. President, of Republic of Greece June-November 1973, arrested October 1974, sentenced to death for high treason and insurrection August 1975 (sentence commuted to life imprisonment).
Leader National Political Society (EPEN) 1984-1988. Commander Royal.
Married 1st Nekee Vassiliadis in 1941 (divorced), two c. Married 2nd Despina Gaspari in 1970, one daughter.