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11 Facts About Konstantinos Manetas

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Konstantinos Manetas was a Hellenic Army officer who rose to the rank of lieutenant general and served as Chief of the Hellenic Army General Staff in 1931.

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Konstantinos Manetas served four times in ministerial positions and was elected to parliament in 1950.

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Konstantinos Manetas was born in Tripoli around 1879, the son of the politician Panagiotis Manetas, the elder brother of Lieutenant General Theodoros Manetas and younger brother of the politician Ioannis Manetas.

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Konstantinos Manetas was promoted to lieutenant in 1908 and captain in 1911.

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Konstantinos Manetas was promoted to lieutenant colonel on 12 January 1917 and to full colonel on 13 December 1917.

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In 1919 Manetas participated in the unsuccessful Allied intervention in Ukraine as Infantry Commander of the 13th Infantry Division.

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Konstantinos Manetas held the post until August 1923, when he was appointed CO of the II Army Corps and soon after named Minister for Military Affairs in the Stylianos Gonatas cabinet, a post he held until January 1924.

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Konstantinos Manetas was then promoted to Lieutenant General and sent to Paris as military attache, and returned in 1925 to re-assume command of II Corps, until 1926, when he was appointed commander of I Army Corps.

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Konstantinos Manetas served as Transport Minister in the interim government of Alexandros Othonaios in March 1933, formed in response of an abortive Venizelist coup.

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Konstantinos Manetas then assumed the post of Inspector of the Infantry in the General Staff, until March 1935 when he was involved in another unsuccessful Venizelist coup attempt.

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Konstantinos Manetas was elected a Member of the Greek Parliament in 1950 for Athens, and served as Minister for Supply and Distribution in the Nikolaos Plastiras cabinet.