"Themistocles Chachos"

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Themistocles D. Chatsos (17 July 1906 – 9 February 1970) was a Greek constitutionalist and politician.

Biographical data
He was born in Athens on 4/17 July 1906 and was the son of Demetrius Chatsos, a politician and lawyer, and Theodora Eustratiades of Trieste. His older brother was the later president of the Republic Constantine Chachos. He studied law at the universities of Athens and Heidelberg, and specialized as a lawyer in Athens. In 1929 he was appointed deputy professor of administrative law at the University of Athens, a position in which he remained until 1968, when he was appointed for a short period, until 1970, an extraordinary professor. He also taught as a professor of administrative law at Panteion University.

In 1936 he was first elected MP with the Liberal party. On Metaxa he was expelled and deported to Anafi first and then to Milos. In 1938 he was re-established in Evia. His expulsion is attributed by his brother Mr. Chachos in his participation in the deliberations of Themistocles Sofoulis with the Communist Party for the election of President of Parliament. He participated as a Liberal representative in the Greek government of Egypt, which resulted according to Constantine Chatsos' testimony his break with the Liberal party, while on the eve of liberation after returning to Greece, he was preparing to assemble with Zeivos and General Spiliotopoulos, a three-member government committee as a transitional figure until the arrival of the exiled Greek government. After liberation he served as Minister of Justice (1944), supply (1945), aviation (1947) and again justice (1950). In 1959 he represented Greece in the drafting of the Cypriot constitution, while in 1961 he was appointed ambassador to Bonn. When the Merten Case broke out and Hypiantes' resignation followed, Themistocles Chachos was appointed in his place. After his departure from the post of ambassador, with the rise of George Papandreou, he did not return to Greece, but was appointed an "honored" extraordinary professor in Heidelberg.
In 1968 he participated in the Mitrelia Committee to draw up a Constitution which would apply after the end of dictatorship.

Themistocles Tsatsos co-wrote several legal works. His son is Dimitris Th. Tsatsos.

References

Sources
Konstantinos Tsatsos: Accountability of life, Vol. 2nd, published "The publications of friends", Athens 2000

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