Constantine Kollias (Greek:Κωνσταντίνος Κόλλιας; 1901^[1] – 13 July 1998) was aGreekAttorney General of theSupreme Civil and Criminal Court who was proclaimedPrime Minister by the far right-wingmilitary junta, which ruled the country from 1967 until 1974.

Kollias was born in 1901 in the village of Stylia,Xylokastro-Evrostina, in the province ofKorinthia,Kingdom of Greece. He died inAthens on 13 July 1998.

Kollias wasAttorney General of Greece during the period 1941-1944 when Greece was occupied by three Axis forces (Germany, Italy and Bulgaria). He was responsible for persecuting resistance members during the occupation, and was indicted after liberation for his actions. According to a published study by Dimitris Kousouris (2014: p.155)^[2]

...he was not only never suspended while his case was pending, but he was also assigned to organize the work of the Special Collaborators’ Courts (SCC). He was finally acquitted solemnly by his colleagues some months later, with praise “for carrying out his duties under the irregular conditions of foreign occupation.” [...] [S]ymbolizing the continuity of the judicial and state apparatus [of the collaborationist administration] in postwar Greece, Konstantinos Kollias became better known for his later feats as attorney general who tried to stop the inquiry on the murder of a left-wing deputyGrigoris Lambrakis in 1963 and as Prime minister of the colonels’ junta in 1967.

Kollias was proclaimed Prime Minister by the far-rightmilitary junta on 21 April 1967, the very day of the coup d'état that overthrewPanagiotis Kanellopoulos' legitimate government. However, nearly eight months later, he was replaced by the head of the military coup d'étatGeorgios Papadopoulos after the unsuccessful counter-coup ofKing Constantine II on 13 December 1967.

Kollias died on 13 July 1998, at the age of 96.

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