Original Hand Signed Photo of President and Prime Minister of Greece Georgios Papadopoulos Hand Signed and Dated (1971) ba Georgios Papadopoulos Photograph made by I. Evaggelidis in Athens Greece Dimensions: approx. 18cm x 12,5cm Georgios Papadopoulos (/ˌpæpəˈdɒpələs/; Greek: Γεώργιος Παπαδόπουλος 5 May 1919 – 27 June 1999) was a Greek military officer and dictator who led a coup d'etat in Greece in 1967 and became the country's Prime Minister from 1967 to 1973. He also was the President of Greece under the junta in 1973, following a referendum. However, after the effective suppression of the Athens Polytechnic uprising, he was, in turn, overthrown by hardliner Dimitrios Ioannidis, in a string of events that would culminate in the fall of the regime in 1974. His and the dictatorship's legacy, as well as its methods he constructed and effects on Greek economy and society as a whole, are still fiercely debated.