Dimitris Th. Tsatsos (;

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, 5 May 1933 – 24 April 2010) was a

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legal scholar and former

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. He was the son of the politician and lawyer Themistoklis Tsatsos (1906–1971) and a nephew of former

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Konstantinos Tsatsos Konstantinos D. Tsatsos (; July 1, 1899 – October 8, 1987) was a Greek diplomat, professor of law, scholar and politician. He served as the List of heads of state of Greece#Third Hellenic Republic (since 1974), second President of Greece, Pr ...

(1899–1987). He was the brother of Constantine Tsatsos and Annita Alevras.

Life and career

After studying law at the

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and

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, at the age of 27 he was declared a Doctor of Law at the University of Athens. From 1958 to 1964 was lecturer at the Faculty of Heidelberg and the period 1964–1965 he worked as a researcher at the

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. In 1968 he was elected lecturer in law at the

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. In 1968, at the Law and Economics Faculty of the University of Bonn. In 1969 he was elected professor of law at the

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, but was not permitted to teach by the ruling military regime. In 1970 he was elected as permanent professor at the University of Bonn in 1973 while imprisoned by the dictatorship. Following the fall of the dictatorship in 1974, he was elected to the Athens EDIKA. Just before his murder, Alecos Panagoulis publicly accused Tsatsos of close collaboration with the military regime, including filing damning reports on students involved with the resistance movement. The evidence is discussed by Oriana Fallaci in “One man” pages 471-473. In 1975 he was elected professor of Law at the

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. From 1980 to 1989 he was Professor of Constitutional Law at the Panteion University of Athens. At the same time he was a full professor of German and International Public Law at the

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. During the period 1993–1994 he served as unpaid adviser to the Prime Minister, and in 1994 he was elected MP of the

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. From 1991 to 1997, he was director of the Institute for German and European political parties law. Between 1994 and 2004 Tsatsos was a Member of the European Parliament representing the Social Democratic Party.Markus Kompa: Dr. jur. Guido Westerwelles Doktorarbeit
Telepolis, 19 February 2011.

References

Sources

* Βιογραφική Εγκυκλοπαίδεια του Νεωτέρου Ελληνισμού 1830-2010 - Αρχεία Ελληνικής Βιογραφίας, published by Metron, 3rd Vol., p. 502/3. (Greek language)

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tsatsos, Dimitris 1933 births 2010 deaths MEPs for Greece 1999–2004 20th-century Greek lawyers PASOK politicians Politicians from Athens PASOK MEPs National and Kapodistrian University of Athens alumni MEPs for Greece 1994–1999