Dimitrios Gontikas
Dimitrios Gontikas or Gondikas was a Greek politician and Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament.Biography
Gontikas was born in the village of Magouliana in Arcadia. After studying law at the University of Athens, he spent many years as a lawyer in Pyrgos until 1936, when he was as MP for Elis Prefecture with the Liberal Party ticket. He was re-elected to Parliament with the Liberal Party in the elections of 1946, 1950, 1951 and 1958, with the Liberal Democratic Union 1956 and with the National Radical Union in 1961.
He occupied various ministerial in several cabinets. He was Supply Minister under Themistoklis Sophoulis and Sophoklis Venizelos, and briefly Minister without Portfolio in the Nikolaos Plastiras cabinet. In 1950–52, he also served as Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament. Gontikas was also chairman of the Greek–American Institute of Athens and of the Greek–Yugoslav Union.
Dimitrios Gontikas was married and had two sons: Kostis, a member of parliament, and Ilias.
