Andreas Tsipov

Andreas Tsipas (; ; ; 1904–1956) was a Slavic Macedonian leader of the Greek Communist Party during the Second World War.

Biography Andreas Tsipas was from Agios Panteleimonas. In the interwar period, Tsipas was a member of IMRO (United) in Greek Macedonia, part of its left–wing faction and supported autonomy for Macedonia. Tsipas was one of 27 communist prisoners released from the Acronauplia at the request of the Bulgarian embassy in Athens with the intercession of Bulgarian Club in Thessaloniki, which had made representations to the German occupation authorities. With the permission from the leader of KKE Giannis Ioannides to reconstruct the Greek Communist Party, they all declared Bulgarian ethnicity. Some merely pretended to be a Bulgarian in order to be set free, such as Kostas Lazaridis who was a Pontic Greek, Andreas Tzimas a Greek Vlach, Petros Kentros of Arvanite and Vlach descent, etc.

After his release, Tsipas followed orders from the KKE leadership and worked with Tzimas to form local committees in Athens. The role was given to him at a meeting in July 1941, subsequently named as the VI Plenum by the KKE. This new central committee succeeded in winning the recognition of the "old central committee" and the "provisional leadership" wings of the party.

At the VII Plenum of the central committee, held the following September, Tsipas was relieved of his post owing to "political unreliability". He had disputes with several high ranking leaders of the KKE. Later he left for Bulgaria through the assistance of the Bulgarian Club of Thessaloniki and the organisation Ohrana. According to some sources then he was an agent of the Bulgarian secret service. In 1944, Tsipas through the National Liberation Front (NOF) returned and was present in Yugoslav Macedonia at the conclusion of the Second World War.

During the Greek Civil War, he was active in the (NOF) working as a nurse. After the defeat of the Democratic Army of Greece, he fled to SFRY in the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, in the city of Bitola, where he died in 1956, suffering from alcoholism.