Vassilis Vlachopoulos

Vassilis Vlachopoulos
Βασίλης Βλαχόπουλος
Personal details
Born	18 Dec 1883 Agrinio, Greece
Died	28 Dec 1944 Athens, Greece
Resting place	First Cemetery of Athens
Political party	Liberal Party
Spouse	Thalia Sdrallis
Children	Orestes Vlachopoulos
Alma mater	Hellenic Army Academy
Awards	Grand Commander of the Order of the Redeemer Legion of Honour Medal of Military Merit Order of George I Greco-Turkish War 1912-1913
Military service
Allegiance	Kingdom of Greece Second Hellenic Republic
Battles/wars	Greco-Turkish War (1897) Balkan Wars First Balkan War Second Balkan War World War I Greco-Turkish War (1919–22)

Vassilis Vlachopoulos (Greek: Βασίλης Βλαχόπουλος), also known as Vassilis Vlahopoulos, (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 member of parliament for the liberals under Eleftherios Venizelos.

Biography

Vassilis Vlachopoulos was born in Agrinio in 1883. He enrolled in the Hellenic Military Academy and graduated. He served during the Balkan Wars of 1912–13.

On April 8,1915 he was sent to Kragujevac, Serbia to determine the possibility of the Serbian Government fulfilling its military obligations towards the Entente. Radomir Putnak, the Chief of Staff of the Supreme Command of the Serbian Army, refused to discuss the matter and on August 10, 1915, would inform Vlachopoulos that the transport of 150,000 Serbian combat troops to the Bulgarian border was not possible in the event that Sofia were to declare war.

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.

In 1938, Vassilis 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.