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{{Infobox military person
| name          = Georgios Modis
| native_name   = Γεώργιος Μόδης
| image         = Greek revolutionaries Pirzas Zois and others.jpeg
| image_size    = 275
| caption       = Georgios Modis at the top right.
| birth_date    = 14 May 1887
| death_date    = 18 June 1975
| birth_place   = Monastir, [[Monastir Vilayet]], [[Ottoman Empire]] (now [[Bitola]], [[Republic of North Macedonia]])
| death_place   = [[Thessaloniki]], [[Third Hellenic Republic]]
| allegiance    = {{flagicon|Greece|royal}} [[Kingdom of Greece]]
| branch        = * {{army|Greece}}
* {{flagicon image|Seal of the Greek-Macedonian Committee.jpg}} [[Hellenic Macedonian Committee|HMC]]
| battles       = [[Macedonian Struggle]]<br>[[Balkan Wars]]
*[[First Balkan War]]
*[[Second Balkan War]]
| alma_mater    = [[University of Athens]]
| laterwork     = Jurist<br>[[Member of Parliament|MP]] for [[Florina (regional unit)|Florina]]<br>Prefect of Florina<br>Governor-General of Epirus<br>[[Ministry of Macedonia and Thrace|Governor-General of Macedonia]]<br>[[Ministry of the Interior (Greece)|Interior Minister]]<br>[[Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs (Greece)|Minister of Education]]<br>Author<br>Member of the [[Society for Macedonian Studies]]
}}
'''Georgios Modis''' ({{lang-el|Γεώργιος Μόδης}}; 14 May 1887 – 18 June 1975) was a [[Greece|Greek]] jurist, politician, writer and participant in the [[Macedonian Struggle]].

== Biography ==
Georgios Modis was born in 1887 in Monastir (modern [[Bitola]]). He graduated from the [[Gymnasium (school)|gymnasium]] of Monastir in 1906 and immediately joined the guerrilla group of the [[Cretan]] Georgios Volanis who was active in the area of [[Mariovo]]. He participated in many fights with [[Bulgarians|Bulgarian]] [[komitadji]]s and [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] troops and was wounded in a battle with the Ottoman army in Besitsa, near [[Mariovo]]. After his injury he abandoned the armed struggle and the Internal Organisation of Monastir appointed him secretary in the [[Metropolis of Moglena and Florina]] in 1909, where he served for a short time. Then, he returned to Monastir and was a reporter in the local newspaper ''Fos'' ("Light") that was published by the Political Club of Monastir.

After the [[Balkan Wars]], when Florina became part of Greece, he studied [[jurisprudence]] in the [[University of Athens]] and commerce in the academy of Othon Rousopoulos. He was elected continually for many years as a Member of the [[Hellenic Parliament]] for the [[Florina Prefecture]] and served as Prefect of Florina. During the period 1932–33 he assumed the position of Governor-General of [[Epirus (Greece)|Epirus]]. During the [[Axis occupation of Greece]], he was arrested by the [[Nazi Germany|Germans]] and was imprisoned in the Pavlou Mela barracks in [[Thessaloniki]]. After his release, he fled to the [[Middle East]] where he joined the [[Greek government in exile]]. In October 1944 he returned to Greece and was appointed by [[Georgios Papandreou]], as [[Governor-General of Macedonia]]. In 1950 he assumed the position of [[Minister of the Interior (Greece)|Minister of the Interior]] and in 1951 [[Minister of Education (Greece)|Minister of Education]].

He was also an active author, his main works being: "Μακεδονικές Ιστορίες" (Macedonian Stories) and "Αγώνες στη Μακεδονία" (Struggles in Macedonia) which was left unfinished due to his death on 18 June 1975. Modis was a member of the [[Society for Macedonian Studies]], and organised many committees of [[Macedonian Struggle]] fighters in order to raise statues to prominent protagonists of the Struggle. He also served as president of the committee for the construction of statues of [[Alexander the Great]], [[Philip II of Macedon|Philip]] and [[Aristotle]]. During the [[Greek military junta of 1967–1974]] he was forced by the regime to resign from the presidency of the committee.<ref>Αγώνες στη Μακεδονία, εκδόσεις Μπαρμπουνάκη, Θεσσαλονίκη, 1975, Βιογραφικό σημείωμα συγγραφέα</ref>

In 2011, a bust of Modis was erected in the town square of Florina at the expense of the Association of Monastiriots of Florina and Environs "Elpis".<ref>[http://www.cityoflorina.gr/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=49&id=51&Itemid=263 Διαδικτυακές πύλες, Δήμος Φλώρινας, Πρόγραμμα Χριστουγεννιάτικων εκδηλώσεων στο "Ξύλινο χωριό", Φωτιές 2011 του δήμου Φλώρινας]</ref>

He is the nephew of [[Theodoros Modis]] and the uncle of [[Theodore Modis]].

== References ==
{{Reflist}}{{Macedonian Struggle}}{{Interior Ministers of Greece}}

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