"Konstantinos Tsatsos"

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Constantine Tsatsos (1 July 1899 – 8 October 1987) was a Greek lawyer, philosopher and politician who served as President of the Republic (1975-1980). He followed an academic career by being elected a regular professor of law philosophy at the Athens Law School and a member of the Academy of Athens (1961), which he also served as president. He was involved in politics for the first time in 1945 taking over as interior minister in the Peter Voulgaris government and has since evolved into one of the main protagonists of Greece's political life. He was a minister in many governments and became one of Constantine Karamanlis' main associates. With the support of the latter he managed in 1975 to be elected first president of the Hellenic Republic, in which position he remained until 1980, when he resigned.

His philosophical, literary and legal work is considered important. The Constitution of 1975 was significantly affected by being the chairman of the constitution's parliamentary committee, and is also considered one of the main supporters of the European idea, and was also a fan of American democracy. For his significant contribution to the development of the European vision he was awarded in 1980 the grand European Kudenhove - Kallergis Prize. He was also a member of many foreign academies including Russia, Latvia, etc.

Constantine Chatsos, overwhelmed by cancer, died on October 8, 1987, at the age of 88.

Early years
He was born on 1 July 1899 in Athens and was the firstborn son of Demetrios Tsatsos, lawyer and MP and Theodora Eustratiades. His brother was Themistocles Chachos. He grew up in Athens, in a house on 8 Bessarios Street, but often visited Trieste, where his mother's parents were established. He studied at Makris Gymnasium and at the Second Gymnasium of Neapolis, and then at the Middle Education Teaching School, where he had teachers Socrates Kougeas and Dimitris Glenos. From a young age he spoke French and German, while reading philosophical works and poems as early as 13. At the age of 15 he began writing poems along with his childhood friend Alexander Empirikos - Koumounduros.

In 1914 he enrolled at the law school of the University of Athens, from which he graduated in 1918. In the same year he was included in the Greek mission of the peace conference in Paris, as a cryptographer, whose team headed by Eleftherios Venizelos and settled in Paris for a year. In 1920 he took the license to practice the law profession and in 1921 he took over with George Maridakis his father's law firm, who had meanwhile died. His military obligations until 1923, his father's sudden death and the bailout of the law firm—unique resource of life for his mother and brother— suspended the beginning of graduate studies. In 1925 he settled in X