Lieutenant General Minister of the General Administration of Crete in 1935. Deputy Minister of the Interior in 1936. He was Supreme Commander of the country’s air defence in 1937-39. Commander of the 5th Army Corps of Thrace in 1939. Commander of the Army of Eastern Macedonia in 1904-41. He fiercely opposed Von List’s German army at Rupel. Kidnapped in Germany as a prisoner with other generals Papagos, Plastiras etc.