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{{Short description|Greek politician, lawyer and university professor (1852–1924)}}
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| name = Sotirios Krokidas<br />{{small|{{lang|el|Σωτήριος Γ. Κροκίδας}}}}
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| office = [[Prime Minister of Greece]]
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| term_start = 30 September
| term_end = 14 November 1922
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| predecessor = [[Anastasios Charalambis]]
| successor = [[Stylianos Gonatas]]
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| birth_date = 1852
| birth_place = [[Sikyona]], [[Kingdom of Greece]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1924|7|29|1852|1|1}}
| death_place = [[Perigiali]], [[Kingdom of Greece]]
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| education = School of Law, [[University of Athens]]
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'''Sotirios G. Krokidas''' ({{lang-el|Σωτήριος Γ. Κροκίδας}}; 1852 in [[Sikyona]] – July 29, 1924 in [[Perigiali]]) was an interim [[List of Prime Ministers of Greece|Prime Minister of Greece]] in 1922.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Travlos |first=Konstantinos |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OtAAEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA386 |title=Salvation and Catastrophe: The Greek-Turkish War, 1919–1922 |date=2020-10-14 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1-4985-8508-8 |pages=386 |language=en |quote=28 September 1922, King Constantine I abdicates in favor of King George II. Nikolaos Traintafyllakos resigns. Military junta that appoints Soterios Krokidas as interim Prime Minister}}</ref> He was a law professor in Athens.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.geocities.com/ekeied/Neohelleniclegalscience.htm |title=New Hellenic Legal Science |access-date=2007-07-22 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071101054106/http://www.geocities.com/ekeied/Neohelleniclegalscience.htm |archive-date=November 1, 2007 }}</ref>
== Biography ==
When the Greek army was defeated in the [[Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)|Greco-Turkish War]] and the government of [[Petros Protopapadakis]] fell, Greece was plunged into a political crisis. In September, 1922, [[Nikolaos Triantaphillakos]] was Prime Minister as the military revolted in [[Thessaloniki]] and then in [[Mytilene]]. A revolutionary committee led by [[Stylianos Gonatas]] demanded the abdication of King Constantine and on September 26, 1922, the king abandoned his throne and the government of Triantaphillakos resigned. The revolutionary committee selected [[Alexandros Zaimis]] as Prime Minister, but as he was out of the country, Krokidas was appointed as interim Prime Minister. Until Krokidas could reach Athens to be sworn in, the Minister of the Army, Charalambis was sworn in as Prime Minister on September 29, and served for one day. On September 30, 1922, Krokidas became Prime Minister.▼
Sotirios Krokidas was born in [[Sikyona]] in [[Corinth]] in 1852.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Makrygiannēs |first=Nikos |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-3qyAAAAIAAJ&q=%CE%9A%CF%81%CE%BF%CE%BA%CE%AF%CE%B4%CE%B1%CF%82 |title=Hoi prōthypourgoi tēs Hellados, 1843-1979 |date=1979 |publisher=Ekdot. Hestia |pages=170 |language=el |quote=Σωτήριος. Κροκιδάς. 1852. –. 1924. - " Ο Σωτήριος Κροκιδάς γεννήθηκε το 1852 στη Σικυώνα Κορινθίας .}}</ref> He studied law at the [[University of Athens]], from which he also became a doctor. In the period 1881 - 1897 he was an assistant professor of commercial law at the Athens Law School. In 1883 he was elected mayor of Sikyona, while from 1892 he was elected deputy of Corinth. In 1917 he was appointed commander-in-chief of Crete, a position in which he remained until 1920.
▲When the Greek army was defeated in the [[Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)|Greco-Turkish War]] and the government of [[Petros Protopapadakis]] fell, Greece was plunged into a political crisis. In September, 1922, [[Nikolaos Triantaphillakos]] was Prime Minister as the military revolted in [[Thessaloniki]] and then in [[Mytilene]]. A revolutionary committee led by [[Stylianos Gonatas]] demanded the abdication of
He was responsible for constituting the extraordinary and controversial [[Trial of the Six]] which sentenced four former Prime Ministers and the General in command of Greek troops in the Greco-Turkish War to death for Greece's defeat in the war.<ref>[http://tovima.dolnet.gr/print_article.php?e=B&f=13809&m=Y08&aa=1 TO BHMA online]</ref> The politicians and General were executed on November 15, 1922. Krokidas resigned on November 27, 1922, as a result of in-fighting among ministers concerning fallout from the Trial of the Six, and he was replaced by the leader of the Revolutionary committee, Stylianos Gonatas. Krokidas died in 1924.▼
▲He was responsible for constituting the extraordinary and controversial [[Trial of the Six]] which sentenced
==References==
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