Preceded by Theodoras Panagakos Name Georgios Bakos Succeeded by Ioannis Rallis Died January 6, 1945 | Full Name Georgios Bakos Service/branch Hellenic Army Years of service 1919—1945 Rank Major general | |
Prime Minister Georgios Tsolakoglou
Konstantinos Logothetopoulos Allegiance Kingdom of Greece
Second Hellenic Republic
Hellenic State Battles/wars Asia Minor Campaign
Greco-Italian War
World War II Battles and wars Greco-Turkish War, Greco-Italian War, World War II Similar People Alexander Papagos, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Sebastiano Visconti Prasca, Leonidas Paraskevopoulos, Ubaldo Soddu | ||
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.