"George Tzajanis"

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George Alex. Tzatzanis (1904 – 2002) was a Greek lawyer, theologian, author and politician, liberal MP of Piraeus in 1952.

Life Story
Born in 1904 in Bouta Chania – Crete, sixth in order of eleven children of the earliest Alexander Emm. Jajani and elder Mary the genus John Katsanevaki.

He finished primary school in his village and the first two classes of high school in Chania. He went up to Athens, where he attended the Rizario Ecclesiastical School where he finished high school in 1924.

In the same year he enrolled at the University of Athens while attending the Theological School, the Pedagogical Department and the School of Languages and Commerce, schools from which he graduated in 1928 holding the equivalent degrees.

In 1929, at the age of 25, he began his professional career as a professor of Theology and Pedagogy at private schools in Piraeus.

In 1936 and while a professor at the Rallyia Piraeus Schools he studied at the Law School of the University of Athens taking his degree in 1940.

He continues his career as a professor until 1947, when he starts practicing law at the Athens Court of First Instance, until his retirement in 1968, in the capacity of lawyer in Ario Pagos.

During the occupation, he developed important intellectual – philanthropic – patriotic and mainly social action through Organizations and Associations which he either founded, or was a member of the Board:

1942 – 1950 Director of Piraeus E.O.C.

As director of the E.O.E. with the help and supervision of the then Archbishop Damascus, he organized

- 47 children's kitchens that ate 33,000 children daily

- 20 nurseries, where 9,000 took milk and baby food every day

- 21 extracurricular schools providing food to 1,500 children 12-18 years old daily

They also established trachomatic hobs where they gave soup kitchens to trachomatic children.

In specially designed centers they provided medical care to 25,000 interest rates and leagues, 66,000 trachomatic children and 50,000 needy. They also provided food and clothing to 2,500 families of prisoners, hostages and executed patriots.

Founder of the Cretan Solidarity

As president of the Cretan Solidarity organized soup kitchens for the Cretan children of Piraeus from 6 to 20 years old and supplied them with clothes and shoes

He organized children's camps in Penteli and Ekali where children lived until 1950.

Co-founder of the patriotic Association of Cretans P.E. M

Member of the Board of the clothing collection committee

Member of the Board of the Bomber Care Committee

Member of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Red Cross Committee

Member of the Swiss Red Cross Committee

Member of the International Red Cross Committee

His political action was important in the four years 1952 – 1956 , when he was a Member of Parliament of Piraeus and Islands. Through the House and through the pages of the newspaper "The Voice of the Province" which published 11 years,