Greek general and politician
Vasileios Vlachopoulos (Greek: Βασίλειος Βλαχόπουλος; Agrinio, 1883 – Athens, 1944) was a general, fighter in the First and Second Balkan Wars, World War I and the First and Second Greco-Turkish Wars, and a candidate member of parliament for the Liberals under Eleftherios Venizelos.
Biography
Vlachopoulos was born in Agrinio in 1883. He enrolled in the Hellenic Army Academy and graduated. He served during the Balkan Wars of 1912–13.
On 8 April 1915 he was sent to Kragujevac, Serbia to determine the possibility of the Serbian government fulfilling its military obligations towards the Entente. Radomir Putnik, the Chief of Staff of the Supreme Command of the Serbian Army, refused to discuss the matter and on 10 August 1915, would inform Vlachopoulos that the transport of 150,000 Serbian combat troops to the Bulgarian border was not possible in the event that Bulgaria were to declare war.[1]
He took part in the 1926 elections as a candidate for parliament for the constituency of Aetolia-Acarnania with the Liberal Party and received 622 votes.[2]
In 1938, Vlachopoulos along with other descendants of leaders of the Greek War of Independence, founded the Patriotic Association of Descendants of the Fighters of 1821 in Athens at the King George Hotel.[3]
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