Angelos Evert was a Greek

Greece

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 police officer, most notable for serving as head of the Athens

Athens

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 branch of the Cities Police

Cities Police

The Cities Police was a Greek police force extant from 1921 to 1984, responsible for policing urban areas. It complemented the Greek Gendarmerie, which was responsible for rural and suburban areas.- History :...

 during the Axis Occupation of Greece during World War II

World War II

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He was born in Athens, the son of the Gendarmerie

Greek Gendarmerie

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 Major Miltiadis Evert. His family was of Bavarian origin, having come to Greece with its first king, the Bavarian prince Otto

Otto of Greece

Otto, Prince of Bavaria, then Othon, King of Greece was made the first modern King of Greece in 1832 under the Convention of London, whereby Greece became a new independent kingdom under the protection of the Great Powers .The second son of the philhellene King Ludwig I of Bavaria, Otto ascended...

. After Law studies in the University of Athens, Angelos Evert joined the Gendarmerie in September 1915. He was transferred to the Cities Police in 1929, and became Police Commissioner of the Athens branch in September 1941, a few months after the country was overrun

Battle of Greece

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 by the Germans.

Over the next few years he was active in several fronts, supporting the Resistance

Greek Resistance

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 and maintaining contacts with the Greek government in exile

Greek government in exile

The Greek government in exile was the official government of Greece, headed by King George II, which evacuated from Athens in April 1941, after the German invasion of the country, first to the island of Crete and then to Cairo in Egypt. Hence it is also referred to as the "Cairo Government"...

 at Cairo

Cairo

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, all the while cooperating with the German occupation authorities. He also participated in the rescue of several Jewish families from Athens, for which he was later honoured as a "Righteous among the Nations

Righteous Among the Nations

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". On 3 December 1944, his policemen opened fire on a large pro EAM demonstration in central Athens, triggering the Dekemvriana clashes.

He served as Chief of the Cities Police from 1951 until he was dismissed on 31 January 1955. He died of heart failure on 30 December 1970. His son, Miltiadis Evert

Miltiadis Evert

Miltiadis Evert , was a Greek politician, a member of Parliament, Government minister, and ex-chairman of the New Democracy party.Evert was born in Athens, Greece, the son of the Athens police chief Angelos Evert. He studied at the Athens School of Economics and Business Science...

, became a politician with the conservative New Democracy

New Democracy (Greece)

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 party, and served as Mayor of Athens in 1987–1989 and chairman of New Democracy in 1993–1997.