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Christoforos Stratos

Greek writer and politician

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Christoforos Stratos (Greek: Χριστόφορος Στράτος; 1924–1982) was a Greek writer and politician. He was three times minister of the interior of Greece.^[1]

Christoforos Stratos was born in 1924 in Patras.^[2] He was a son of a textile salesman and co-founder of Piraiki-Patraiki Cotton Manufacturing Company.^[3] Stratos studied law at Athens University.^[2]

At the young age, Stratos became a managing director of Piraiki-Patraiki and by the mid-1950s the company became the largest industrial firm in Greece and the second largest employer after the Greek state.^[3]

Stratos was married and had two sons and one daughter.^[2]

Stratos was active in the Orthodox Church and the Greek Scout Movement. He also co-founded the Society of Hellenic Studies, a conservative liberal think-tank.^[3]

Stratos built a close relationship with the Palace becoming a friend of the King Paul and his son, Constantine.^[2]

In 1962, Stratos founded the Hellenic Management Association to introduce modern techniques of business management in public and private companies.^[3]

Stratos entered politics in the early 1960s when the King appointed him as a minister in two caretaker governments.^[3] The caretaker governments were set up before 1967 to hold elections.^[2]

From 1967 to 1974, the colonels’ dictatorship was established in Greece.^[4] During this time, Stratos was active in resisting the military dictatorship.^[3] In 1973, he was arrested for three months after an attempted coup by naval officers.^[5]

After restoration of democracy in 1974, Stratos joined the new democracy party of then Premier Constantine Karamanlis.^[2] Stratos ran for a parliamentary seat in his native Aetolia-Akarnanis.^[3]

He became a Minister of public works in the cabinet of 21 November 1974.^[6] He was appointed as minister of public works and interior under several New Democracy governments.^[3]

Christoforos Stratos died of stroke on 15 April 1982 at the age of 58.^[2]