Ministry of Culture and Tourism (Greece)

Hellenic Republic
Ministry of Culture and Tourism

Established:	1971
Minister for Culture	Pavlos Geroulanos
Deputy Minister	George Nikitiades
Budget:
Employees:

The Ministry of Culture and Tourism (Greek: Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού και Τουρισμού) is a government department of Greece entrusted with the preservation of the country's cultural heritage, the arts, as well as sports, through the subordinate General Secretariat for Sport. Established during the Regime of the Colonels in 1971, it received its current name in October 2009, when the Ministry for Touristic Development was merged into it.

List of Ministers of Culture and Science (1971–1985)

#		Name	Took Office	Left Office	Party
1.		Konstantinos Panagiotakis	26 August 1971	25 November 1973
2.		Dimitrios Tsakonas	25 November 1973	24 July 1974
3.		Konstantinos Tsatsos	26 July 1974	10 October 1974	National Radical Union
4.		Ioannis Michail Panagiotopoulos	10 October 1974	21 November 1974
5.		Konstantinos Trypanis	21 November 1974	28 November 1977	New Democracy
6.		Georgios Plitas	28 November 1977	25 September 1978	New Democracy
7.		Demetrios Nianias	25 September 1978	9 May 1980	New Democracy
8.		Andreas Andrianopoulos	10 May 1980	19 October 1981	New Democracy
9.		Melina Mercouri	21 October 1981	26 July 1985	Panhellenic Socialist Movement

List of Ministers of Culture and Sport (1985–2009)

#		Name	Took Office	Left Office	Party
		Melina Mercouri	26 July 1985	1 July 1989	Panhellenic Socialist Movement
10.		Georgios Mylonas (first term)	2 July 1989	23 November 1989	New Democracy
11.		Sotiris Kouvelas	23 November 1989	12 February 1990	New Democracy
		Georgios Mylonas (2nd term)	12 February 1990	11 April 1990	New Democracy
12.		Tzannis Tzannetakis	11 April 1990	8 August 1991	New Democracy
13.		Anna Psarouda-Benaki	8 August 1991	3 December 1992	New Democracy
14.		Dora Bakoyanni	3 December 1992	13 October 1993	New Democracy
		Melina Mercouri (2nd term)	13 October 1993	6 March 1994	Panhellenic Socialist Movement
15.		Thanos Mikroutsikos	16 March 1994	22 January 1996	Panhellenic Socialist Movement
16.		Stavros Benos	22 January 1996	26 September 1996	Panhellenic Socialist Movement
17.		Evangelos Venizelos (1st term)	26 September 1996	19 February 1999	Panhellenic Socialist Movement
18.		Elisavet Papazoi	19 February 1999	13 April 2000	Panhellenic Socialist Movement
19.		Theodoros Pangalos	13 April 2000	20 November 2000	Panhellenic Socialist Movement
		Evangelos Venizelos (2nd term)	20 November 2000	10 March 2004	Panhellenic Socialist Movement
20.		Kostas Karamanlis	10 March 2004	15 February 2006	New Democracy
21.		Georgios Voulgarakis	15 February 2006	19 September 2007	New Democracy
22.		Michalis Liapis	19 September 2007	8 January 2009	New Democracy
23.		Antonis Samaras	8 January 2009	5 October 2009	New Democracy

List of Ministers of Culture and Tourism (since 2009)

#		Name	Took Office	Left Office	Party
24.		Pavlos Geroulanos	7 October 2009	Incumbent	Panhellenic Socialist Movement

External links

• Greek Ministry of Culture and Tourism

References

• Lar's website