F:. Hesiod

(Athens 1892 – 1951)

He studied law in Athens and Rome. He fought as a conscript in the Balkan wars. He initially worked as a journalist. Because of his pro-monarchist convictions he was deported (1918-19) to Crete by the government of Eleftheros. He was employed in Greece for the period from 1921 to 1916, in the country of Greece, in the wake of the election of Eleftherios Venizelos. In 1921 he began publishing the newspaper ‘The Chronicle’. In 1924 he founded the first advertising company in Greece, GREKA. He was President of the Commercial Association of Athens. In 1934 he was elected Mayor of Athens.During the dictatorship of I. Metaxas he was appointed Minister of Capital Administration (1936). He participated in the organization and guidance of the Metaxas Youth EON. In 1941 he was appointed by the government of Korizis as Commander of Thrace. Then with the German invasion he fled to the Middle East and from there to the USA, where he worked as a journalist. In 1945 he returned to Greece. In 1950 he was elected as a member of parliament. In April 1951 he was again elected Mayor of Athens but died in December. He wrote a historical chronicle, Greece the war and its glory.