Spyridon Mercouris [SEP] position held
Spyridon Mercouris
Spyridon Mercouris () (1856-1939) was a Greek politician and long-time Mayor of Athens in the early 20th century. He was born in Ermioni, Argolida, in 1856 to a prominent family that had taken part in the Greek War of Independence in the 1820s.
Elected as Mayor of Athens in 1899, he held the post continuously until 1914. As a committed conservative royalist, in 1917, during the National Schism, he was exiled to Corsica by the Venizelists. He was also
George S. Mercouris
George S. Mercouris (; 1886 – December 1943) was a Greek politician who served as a Member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister, and later founded the Greek National Socialist Party; a minor fascist party, they were one of several small far right parties in Greece at the time. During the occupation of Greece, Mercouris was appointed by the Nazis as Governor of the National Bank of Greece.
Biography.
He was born in Athens into a prominent political family, the son of Spyridon Mercouris, long