George Dimitriou Seremetis (Greek: Γεώργιος Σερεμέτης) (1879 in Skamnia Elassonas - 1950) was a prominent Greek lawyer and the mayor of Thessaloniki during World War II. Year 1879 ( MDCCCLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Elassona or Elasona (Ελασσώνα older form Elassonas is a town and a municipality in the Larissa Prefecture in Greece. Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including
Seremetis was born in 1879 in Skamnia Elassonas, then ruled by the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire (1299–1923 ( Old Ottoman Turkish: دولتْ علیّه عثمانیّه Devlet-i Âliye-yi Osmâniyye, Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish Shortly after his birth, the city of Larissa was liberated and his family moved there. Larissa ( Greek: Λάρισα, Lárisa) is the capital city of the Thessaly periphery of Greece, and capital of the In 1897, George Seremetis started his studies at a law school of the University of Athens. Year 1897 ( MDCCCXCVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Εθνικόν και Καποδιστριακόν Πανεπιστήμιον Αθηνών usually referred to simply as the He graduated in 1902. Year 1902 ( MCMII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting He was a lawyer in Larissa for ten years.
He moved to Thessaloniki in 1913 when the city was liberated from Ottoman rule. Thessaloniki (Θεσσαλονίκη), Thessalonica, or Salonica is the second-largest city in Greece and the capital of Macedonia Year 1913 ( MCMXIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common From 1914 to 1922, he participated in the administration of the Thessaloniki bar association and from 1922 to 1926 he served as general secretary of the bar association. Year 1914 ( MCMXIV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Year 1922 ( MCMXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1922 ( MCMXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1926 ( MCMXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. In 1922, Seremetis married Calliope Tatti and raised two children. Year 1922 ( MCMXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Calliope Tatti (Καλλιόπη Τάττη was born in Thessaloniki, Ottoman Empire in 1894
From 1926 to 1945, he was elected president of the Thessaloniki bar association by a large majority. Year 1926 ( MCMXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar A bar association is a Professional body of Lawyers Some bar associations are responsible for the regulation of the legal profession in their Jurisdiction He later succeeded with the help of D. Vlachos to establish a "Lawyers' Fund of Welfare" (Greek: Tαμείο Προνοίας Νομικών) in Thessaloniki. In 1943, the mayor K. Year 1943 ( MCMXLIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Merkouriou of Thessaloniki died. Thessaloniki was at that time occupied by the Axis forces. Bishop Genadios asked for a secret meeting with the representatives of the resistance organizations and they asked Seremetis to become mayor of Thessaloniki. Seremetis with the help of the Red Cross managed to provide the hospitals with medicines. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is an International humanitarian movement with approximately 97 million volunteers worldwide who stated He also managed, with the cooperation of the doctors and the medical staff, to help resistance fighters escape.
In 1944, again with the cooperation of Bishop Genadios and the Red Cross representatives, he managed to convince the German authorities to leave the harbour facilities of Thessaloniki intact during their retreat.
Shortly after the liberation, he served again for a while as the bar association president, but later resigned due to ill health. He died in 1950 of a heart attack. Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
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- Armenopoulos, p. Konstantinos Armenopoulos or Harmenopoulos (1320 – ca 1385 was a Greek, Byzantine jurist who held the post of katholikos kritēs ("universal 47 of 1993
| Preceded by K. Year 1993 ( MCMXCIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar) Merkouriou |
Mayor of Thessaloniki 1943–1944 |
Succeeded by Petros Levis |
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