Georgios Bakos

Georgios Bakos (Greek: Γεώργιος Μπάκος, 1892–1945) was a Greek Army officer.

Born in Mani in 1892, he became a career officer and fought in the Asia Minor Campaign. As a Major General, he commanded the 3rd Infantry Division in the Greco-Italian War of 1940–41.

After the German invasion of Greece and the Greek Army's capitulation, he served as Minister of National Defence in the collaborationist government set up by Lt. General Georgios Tsolakoglou on 30 April 1941, and retained the post under Tsolakoglou's successor Konstantinos Logothetopoulos, until the Logothetopoulos cabinet's resignation on 7 April 1943. An ardent Germanophile, Bakos tried, without success, to raise a Greek volunteer unit to fight along the German Wehrmacht in the Eastern Front.

During the Dekemvriana he was taken prisoner by EAM-ELAS guerrillas, and after a court-martial was executed as a traitor on 6 January 1945.

References

This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the Ελληνικά Wikipedia.

Political offices
Preceded by Theodoros Panagakos as Minister of Military Affairs in the government-in-exile	Minister of National Defence of Greece (Collaborationist government) 30 April 1941 – 7 April 1943	Succeeded by Ioannis Rallis