Dimitrios "''Takos''" Makris ( el, Δημήτριος "Τάκος" Μακρής, 1910 – 10 March 1981) was a Greek conservative politician and close associate of Prime Minister Constantine Karamanlis.

Life

He was born in Florina, which was at the time part of the Ottoman Empire, in 1910. After graduating in Law from Athens University, he worked as a lawyer in

Thessaloniki Thessaloniki (; el, Θεσσαλονίκη, , also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece, with over one million inhabitants in its Thessaloniki metropolitan area, metropolitan area, and the capi ...

. He served as a Member of Parliament representing

Florina Prefecture Florina ( el, Περιφερειακή Ενότητα Φλώρινας, ''Perifereiakí Enótita Flórinas'') is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of Western Macedonia, in the geographic region of Macedonia, Greece. Its ...

from 1956 to 1967, and from 1974 to 1977. He served as

Interior Minister An interior minister (sometimes called a minister of internal affairs or minister of home affairs) is a cabinet official position that is responsible for internal affairs, such as public security, civil registration and identification, emergency ...

from 1956 to 1961, and as Minister for the Presidency of the Government from 1961 to 1963. In 1960 he was accused of being a Nazi collaborator during

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

(the so-called "Merten affair"), which he denied, but from that point onward he was constantly under attack by the press. He died in

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in 1981, aged 71.

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1910 births 1981 deaths 20th-century Greek lawyers National Radical Union politicians New Democracy (Greece) politicians Ministers of the Interior of Greece National and Kapodistrian University of Athens alumni Greek MPs 1956–1958 Greek MPs 1958–1961 Greek MPs 1961–1963 Greek MPs 1963–1964 Greek MPs 1964–1967 Greek MPs 1974–1977 People from Florina {{Greece-politician-stub