Dimitrios Andrikopoulos-Boukaouris

Dimitrios Andrikopoulos-Boukaouris (Greek: Δημήτριος Ανδρικόπουλος-Μπουκαούρης; 1867–1948) was a Greek politician of Achaea and a mayor of Patras.

Dimitrios Andrikopoulos-Boukaouris Δημήτριος Ανδρικόπουλος-Μπουκαούρης
Dimitrios Andrikopoulos-Boukaouris in 1918
Born	1867 Patras, Greece
Died	1948 Patras, Greece
Nationality	Greek
Occupation	politician, mayor of Patras
Known for	16th Mayor of Patras 1883–1887

He was born in Patras. His mother came from a historic political family and so he kept her name 'Boukaouris' in his own surname. He studied law and taught with politicals as a judge.

He was first elected as mayor in 1914 in the first elections which happened with the voting system, he remained mayor until 1925, he did not ran from August 1, until . He brought electricity to the city and knew the municipal uses while World War I eased the factory works and closed the municipal electric and manufacturing factories. In the continuation of electricity, it brought the same industrialists from their rights on electric power which had in their factory. It brought the exploitation of the Glafkos river in 1922 and finished in 1925 with many obstacles in many political changes. The main proposal happened and was accepted by Eleftherios Venizelos, later by Dimitrios Gounaris and finally Andreas Michalakopoulos, which concluded new fundings and the agreement which made the construction of the product and sojourn of electric power. In the auctions counciled a Greek and twelve foreign companies. The hiring which made by the raising of the Insanity Refuge.

He died in Patras in 1948.

References

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