Ioannis Kalogeras

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Ioannis Kalogeras (Greek: Ιωάννης Καλογεράς) (1876–1957) was a Greek army officer and politician. Born in Spartias, a village in the mountains of Aetolia-Acarnania, he started as a non-commissioned officer and fought in the Greco-Turkish War of 1897 as a sergeant. After training, he became an artillery officer and studied in Crete and at the École supérieure de guerre in France.

In the First Balkan War (1912–1913) he served on the staff of the 4th Infantry Division and helped plan the capture of the hill Tsouka near Bizani, which allowed Greece to advance and capture Ioannina on 21 February 1913. He also fought in the Second Balkan War at Kilkis-Lachanas. During World War I he held staff roles, including chief of staff of an infantry division on the Strymon front and, in 1920, vice-chief of staff at the General Headquarters in Smyrna.

After moving to the Army of Thrace in 1920, he helped organize the Army of Evros. He resigned from the army in August 1923 as a major general and settled in Athens, where he helped suppress the Leonardopoulos-Gargalidis royalist coup and contributed to the fall of the monarchy and the establishment of the Second Hellenic Republic.

Kalogeras then entered politics, serving as a Member of Parliament for Athens from 1923 to 1930. In 1930 he became Minister General-Governor of Thrace, helping to organize Western Thrace. He died on 26 July 1957 in Athens.