Dimitrios Deligeorgis

Demetrios (Mitros) Deligiorgis (, 1785/88–1860) was a Greek revolutionary and politician during the Greek War of Independence.

Biography Before the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence, Deligiorgis worked as a secretary to the powerful Ali Pasha of Ioannina; in documents of the period his also referred to under the name Deligeorgopoulos or Deligiorgopoulos. When the War of Independence broke out in 1821, he was in Preveza, and was soon invited by the provisional administration to become a member of the new government in Missolonghi.

Family Deligeorgis was married to Chrysaido Benedetou (1785–1860), a daughter of a wealthy family. Her dowry, as well as estates given by the state for his service during the War of Independence, formed the basis of a considerable landed fortune. The couple had five children: Pinelopi, who married the doctor Athanasios Drosinis of Missolonghi (died 1885), but had no children Maria Epameinondas (1829–1879), who became a politician and served six times as Prime Minister of Greece Themistoklis (born 1836), who took over his father's estates Leonidas (1839–1928), who became a politician and served as Foreign Minister