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Georgios Mavros (Greek:Γεώργιος Μαύρος) (Kastellorizo, 15 March 1909 –Athens, 6 May 1995) was a Greek jurist and politician. He served in several ministerial posts, and wasMinister for Foreign Affairs andDeputy Prime Minister in the 1974 national unity government following therestoration of democracy.
He taught law at theUniversity of Athens from 1937 to 1942, and became a politician following the liberation of Greece from theAxis Occupation, being elected to theHellenic Parliament from 1946 on. During the occupation he helped rescue Jews from theHolocaust. In 1994 he was awarded the title ofRighteous Among the Nations byYad Vashem.[1]
He held cabinet posts as Justice Minister (1945), Minister for National Education (1946), Commerce and Industry (1949), Finance (1951), National Defence (1952) and Government Coordination (1963–1965).
He was governor of theNational Bank of Greece, and in 1966 established theNational Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation (MIET).[2] After theGreek military junta of 1967–1974, as part of theCentre Union – New Forces he served asMinister for Foreign Affairs andDeputy Prime Minister of Greece under Prime MinisterKonstantinos Karamanlis. Increasingly sidelined by Karamanlis'New Democracy, Mavros joined thePanhellenic Socialist Movement and was elected an MP with it in 1981, and an MEP in 1984.
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