Georgios Hatzianestis

Georgios Hatzianestis (, 3 December 1863 – 15 November 1922) was a Greek artillery and general staff officer who rose to the rank of lieutenant general. He is best known as the commander-in-chief of the Army of Asia Minor at the time of the Turkish August 1922 offensive, which he failed to stop. He was replaced and later tried in the Trial of the Six as one of the main culprits of the Greek defeat in the Asia Minor Campaign, condemned and executed.

Life

Hatzianestis was born in Athens on 3 December 1863. His father was Nikolaos Hatzianestis, the Prefect of Attica and Boeotia, and his mother was Maria Pitsipios, daughter of the scholar Iakovos Pitsipios.

He graduated from the Hellenic Army Academy as a second lieutenant in the Artillery on 25 July 1884 and continued his military studies in Imperial Germany. In 2010, the Supreme Court of Greece overturned the convictions of Hatzianestis and the other five defendants.