Former Prime Minister Kostas Simitis played a defining role in shaping
Former Prime Minister Kostas Simitis played a defining role in shaping Greece’s economic and political landscape at the turn of the millennium.
Born in Athens in 1936, Simitis focused his political life on reforming Greece’s economy and bringing the country closer to Europe.
Simitis’ long political career began with studies in law at the University of Marburg in Germany and economics at the London School of Economics.
In 1965, Simitis co-founded the “Alexandros Papanastasiou” Political Research Group, aiming to research Greece’s economic and societal challenges. As the country fell under the military dictatorship, his activism took a more defiant turn. The group evolved into the anti-dictatorship “Democratic Defense,” and Simitis became a target of the regime.
During the dictatorship, Simitis fled abroad and was brought to trial in absentia before the Military Court for attempted arson and violation of the law on explosives. In retaliation, his wife, Daphne Simitis, was arrested and held in solitary confinement for two months.
He taught as an assistant professor at the University of Konstanz in 1971 and continued as a full professor of Commercial and Civil Law at the University of Giessen from 1971 to 1975. In 1977 he was elected full professor
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