Evripidis Bakirtzis, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Evripidis Bakirtzis

Greek politician

Date of Birth: 16-Jan-1895

Place of Birth: Serres, Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace, Greece

Date of Death: 09-Mar-1947

Profession: military personnel, politician

Nationality: Greece

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Evripidis Bakirtzis (Greek: ????p?d?? ?pa???t???; 16 January 1895 – 9 March 1947), born in Serres, Ottoman Empire, was a Hellenic Army officer and politician.
Dismissed from the army twice due to his participation in pro-republican coup attempts, later during the Axis Occupation of Greece in World War II he co-founded the EKKA resistance group and later he joined the Greek People's Liberation Army.
He served as head of the Political Committee of National Liberation, a government of Greek Resistance-held territories, from 10 March to 18 April 1944.
He was nicknamed "the Red Colonel", from his pen name in the communist Rizospastis. He was found dead in 1947 in exile, during the later Greek civil war, in Fournoi Korseon.