Dimitrios Gounaris

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Dimitrios Gounaris was the Prime Minister of Greece from March 10, 1915 to August 23, 1915 and April 8, 1921 to May 16, 1922. Leader of the People's Party, he was the main right-wing opponent of his contemporary Eleftherios Venizelos. He studied law in Athens University and continued his studies in Germany, France and England, before returning to his native Patras. He was elected deputy for Achaea in 1902 and distinguished himself as an orator and a member of the so-called "Japanese Group" that opposed the Georgios Theotokis government in 1906 - 1908. Gounaris himself, however, joined the government in 1908 as Finance Minister, hoping to implement a reformist program, thereby causing the dissolution of the group, although he was soon forced to resign. Despite his progressive views, his conservative political thinking turned him into a leading opponent of Eleftherios Venizelos. He was appointed Prime Minister after Venizelos' first resignation in 1915 by King Constantine I