GREECE Axis Occupation

1941 - 1944

ΚΑΤΟΧΗ

Italian Plenipotentiary

1941 - Sep 1943 Pellegrino Ghigi (b. 1899 - d. af.1960)

Italian military commanders Greece

(Epirus, Thessaly, Peloponnese, Athens, Attica,

Ionian Islands, Euboea, Skyros, Naxos, Cyclades, Samos, and eastern Crete [Lasithi prefecture])

25 Jun 1941 - May 1943 Carlo Geloso (b. 1879 - d. 1957)

May 1943 - 9 Sep 1943 Carlo Vecchiarelli (b. 1884 - d. 1948)

German Plenipotentiary
1 May 1941 - 3 Nov 1943 Günther Altenburg (b. 1894 - d. 1984)

German military commander

6 Apr 1941 - 5 Jul 1941 Wilhelm Sigmund List (b. 1880 - d. 1971)

German military commanders of Salonica and Aegean (Saloniki-Ägäis)
(Thessalonika, Lemnos, Lesbos, Mytilene, Chios, western Macedonia, and Evros prefecture)
5 Jul 1941 - 31 Dec 1942 Curt von Krenzki (b. 1888 - d. 1862)
1 Jan 1943 - 13 Jan 1943 Bogislav von Studnitz (b. 1888 - d. 1943)
13 Jan 1943 - 20 Jan 1943 Paul Herrmann (acting) (b. 1892 - d. 1974)
21 Jan 1943 - 24 Aug 1943 Johannes Haarde (b. 1889 - d. 1945)
25 Aug 1943 - 18 Oct 1944 Kurt Pflugradt (b. 1887 - d. 1973)

(from 8 Sep 1943, subordinated to commanders of Greece)

German military commanders of Southern Greece (Südgriechenland)
(port of Piraeus, Salamis, Kythera, Antikythera, Melos, and western Crete)

27 Jun 1941 - 11 Sep 1942 Hellmuth Felmy (b. 1885 - d. 1965)

11 Sep 1942 - 8 Sep 1943 Wilhelm Speidel (b. 1895 - d. 1970)

Military commanders for Greece (Griechenland)(excluding the Bulgarian zone)
8 Sep 1943 - 26 Aug 1944 Alexander Löhr (b. 1885 - d. 1947)
26 Aug 1944 - 18 Oct 1944 Maximilian Maria Joseph Freiherr (b. 1881 - d. 1954)
von und zu Weichs

King BORIS and HITLER 1st March 1941

Bulgarian military commanders
(eastern Macedonia, Western Thrace, Samothrace and Thasaos)
20 Apr 1941 - 22 Nov 1943 .....

22 Nov 1943 - May 1944 Trifon Jordanov Trifonov (b. 1895 - d. 1945)

May 1944 - 1944 Kiril Stanchev

1944 - Sep 1944 Asen Sirakov