Dimitrios Maximos

{{Short description|Greek banker and politician}}

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| name = Dimitrios Maximos

| native_name = {{nobold|{{Lang|el|Δημήτριος Μάξιμος}}}}

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| caption = A photograph of Dimitrios Maximos

| office = Prime Minister of Greece

| monarch = George II
Paul

| predecessor = Konstantinos Tsaldaris

| successor = Konstantinos Tsaldaris

| order2 =

| office2 = Senator

| birth_date = {{birth date|1873|07|06|df=y}}

| birth_place = Patras, Kingdom of Greece

| death_date = {{death date and age|1955|10|17|1873|07|06|df=y}}

| death_place = Athens, Kingdom of Greece

| nationality = Greek

| occupation = Banker

| office1 = Foreign Minister

| termstart1 = 10 March 1933

| termend1 = 3 March 1935

| termstart = 24 January 1947

| termend = 29 August 1947

| successor1 = Panagis Tsaldaris

| predecessor1 = Nikolaos Mavroudis

| president1 = Alexandros Zaimis

| termend2 = 1 April 1935

| termstart2 = 31 March 1933

| president2 = Alexandros Zaimis

| party = People's Party

| alma_mater = University of Athens
University of Paris

| profession = Banker
Politician

| relations = Andreas Londos
Stefanos Streit (uncle)
Georgios Streit (cousin)

| primeminister2 = Panagis Tsaldaris

| primeminister1 = Panagis Tsaldaris

}}

Dimitrios E. Maximos ({{langx|el|Δημήτριος Μάξιμος}}; 6 July 1873{{Greece Old Style dating}} – 17 October 1955){{cite book|title=Obituaries on File: A-R.|publisher=Facts on File|year=1979|page=387}} was a Greek banker and politician. He briefly served as Prime Minister of Greece after World War II.{{Cite book |last=Sfikas |first=Athanasios D. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=46YxEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA280 |title=British Labour Government and The Greek Civil War: 1945-1949 |date=2019-08-07 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |isbn=978-1-4744-7249-4 |pages=280 |language=en |quote=MAXIMOS , Dimitrios : Governor of the Bank of Greece ; Populist ; Prime Minister , January - August 1947}}

Life

Maximos was born on 6 July 1873 in Patras.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PwyQAAAAMAAJ |title=British Documents on Foreign Affairs: Greece, Italy and Trieste, Portugal, Spain, and the Vatican, 1952 |date=2006 |publisher=LexisNexis |isbn=978-0-88692-724-0 |pages=84 |language=en |quote=Maximos, Dimitrios Born 1873 at Patras and entered the National Bank of Greece in 1891.}} He began his career in banking in 1891 and was employed at the National Bank of Greece. In 1920 Maximos became governor of the bank before resigning in 1922. Between 1933 and 1935, he became Foreign Minister of the government of Panagis Tsaldaris. He was Prime Minister of Greece in 1947.

He died on 17 October 1955.

His home in central Athens, the Maximos Mansion, serves since 1982 as the official seat of the Prime Minister of Greece.

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Category:20th-century prime ministers of Greece

Category:Politicians from Patras

Category:Foreign ministers of Greece

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