Dimitrios Gontikas or Gondikas ( el, Δημήτριος Γόντικας, 1888–1967) was a

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politician and

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Biography

Gontikas was born in the village of

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in Arcadia. After studying law at the

University of Athens The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA; el, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών, ''Ethnikó ke Kapodistriakó Panepistímio Athinón''), usually referred to simply as the Univers ...

, he spent many years as a lawyer in Pyrgos until 1936, when he was as MP for Elis Prefecture with the

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ticket. He was re-elected to Parliament with the Liberal Party in the elections of 1946, 1950, 1951 and 1958, with the Liberal Democratic Union 1956 and with the

National Radical Union The National Radical Union ( el, Ἐθνικὴ Ῥιζοσπαστικὴ Ἕνωσις (ΕΡΕ), ''Ethnikī́ Rizospastikī́ Énōsis'' (ERE)) was a Greek political party formed in 1956 by Konstantinos Karamanlis, mostly out of the Greek Rall ...

in 1961. He occupied various ministerial in several cabinets. He was Supply Minister under

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(18 November 1948 – 20 January 1949) and

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(23 March – 15 April 1950), and briefly (15–19 April 1950) Minister without Portfolio in the Nikolaos Plastiras cabinet. In 1950–52, he also served as

. Gontikas was also chairman of the Greek–American Institute of Athens and of the Greek–Yugoslav Union. Dimitrios Gontikas was married and had two sons:

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, a member of parliament, and Ilias.

References

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