Efthimios Kanellopoulos

Great Ambassador Efthimios Kanellopoulos
From left: Miltiadis Terkas, Efthymios Kanellopoulos, Alexandros Mazarakis, Georgios Choneos, G. Papageorgiou, Dimitrios Kakavos, Kyriakos Tavoularis. From September 30 to November 27, 1922, he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Economic Affairs in the government of Sotirios Krokidas .
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Greece)
In office 3 December 1922 – 16 September 1922
Monarch	Constantine I of Greece
Preceded by	Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos
Succeeded by	Nikolaos Stratos
Ambassador in Constantinople
In office 12 November 1918 – 23 October 1923
Preceded by	Postion established
Succeeded by	Postion De-established
Personal details
Born	15 July 1872 Kingdom of Greece
Died	September 1933 Bern, Switzerland
Military service
Allegiance	Kingdom of Greece
Battles/wars	Turkish War Battle of Constantinople

Efthymios Kanellopoulos (Greek: Ευθύμιος Κανελλόπουλος; born July 15, 1872 – died May 1933 in Bern) was a Greek diplomat and politician. He served as Greece’s ambassador and also worked as the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister of Economy.

Life

Efthymios Kanellopoulos studied law in Athens, he joined the foreign service in 1901 and worked in consulates at Istanbul, Asia Minor, Thessaloniki, Bucharest, Vienna, Alexandria, and London. He helped Ionas Dragoumis in the Macedonian Struggle. From 1919 to 1921 he served as High Commissioner in Istanbul, later becoming ambassador to Berlin (1923–1930) and Bern (1931–1933). He also served briefly as Greece’s foreign minister in the Krokidas government in 1922.

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