2024-06-08 10:46:36
Vassilis Brakatsoulas, resistance fighter, politician, scientist and mental, who had additionally served as Prefect of Ioannina within the 80s, handed away on Wednesday night.
Vassilis Brakatsoulas was born to a big and poor farming household within the village of Kanalia Karditsa on February 5, 1929. In 1943 he joined EPON and the Nationwide Resistance in his village as an eagle, providing beneficial companies. In 1944, through the Occupation, he was one of many co-founders of the primary scholar group within the historical past of Greece of the Karditsa Fanario Gymnasium, of which he was elected president of the Judicial-Disciplinary Division. In June 1952 he graduated from the Regulation Faculty of the College of Athens.
Already as a scholar, he started his political exercise in November 1949, supporting the Democratic Social gathering with leaders Alexandros Svolos, Yiannis Sofianopoulos and others. The overall secretary of the Democratic Left Youth of the celebration of the Left Democrats of Yiannis Sofianopoulos is elected. He then participated within the founding of EDA beneath the management of Yiannis Pasalidis. In 1951 he was elected a member of the Central Committee of the United Democratic Youth of Greece (EDNE). As a closing scholar of the Athens Faculty of Regulation, he was arrested for deportation in March 1952, as a result of in accordance with the operative a part of the related resolution, he “led the demonstrations of the scholars of Athens in favor of the Union of Cyprus with Greece”. He was launched with the intervention of the Nationwide Archer Makarios.
He served his navy service in Makronissos (1952-1953), the place he was severely tortured and hospitalized within the 401st hospital.
In 1958 he was elected MP for Karditsa with the EDA. He was the final dwelling member of the historic EDA parliamentary group of 79 members, from the interval 1958-1961. As a sitting Member of Parliament, in 1961 he was twice attacked by police and parastatal forces, on account of which he was hospitalized each in Athens and in Karditsa.
Through the dictatorship, he was exiled to Gyaros and Partheni on Leros.
Within the Nineteen Eighties, he was prefect of Magnesia, Ioannina (March 23, 1984 – September 24, 1986) and first regional prefect of South Aegean. Within the interval 1996-2000 he was Secretary Basic of the Ministry of Labour. He was a Member of Parliament within the interval 1989-1996 with PASOK, the place he additionally served as a Parliamentary Consultant.
For twelve years he was president after which honorary president of the Panhellenic Group of Fighters of the Nationwide Resistance (POAEA). Since December 2016, he has been co-chairman of the Nationwide Council for Claiming Germany’s Money owed to Greece (ESDOGE).
Creator of dozens of books, with philosophical, historic, political, authorized and even agricultural content material. His writings on Civil Regulation and Civil Process have been reference books for generations of attorneys and judges.
The exodus service shall be sung on Saturday, June 8, at 11.30 am, within the Holy Metropolitan Church of St. of Konstantinou & Eleni in Karditsa (Ezekiel 2).
As a substitute of a wreath, the kinfolk want {that a} sum of cash be deposited in my reminiscence to “Medical doctors With out Borders”, which he himself supported for quite a few years.