Angelos Evert

Who was Angelos Evert?

Angelos Evert was a Greek police officer, most notable for serving as head of the Athens branch of the Cities Police during the Axis Occupation of Greece during World War II.

He was born in Athens, the son of the Gendarmerie Major Miltiadis Evert. The Evert family was of German aristocratic origin, and they were philhellenes who permanently settled in Greece in the late 19th century and eventually took Greek citizenship. After Law studies in the University of Athens, Angelos Evert joined the Gendarmerie as an officer 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 by the Germans.

Over the next few years he was active in several fronts, supporting the Resistance and maintaining contacts with the Greek government in exile at Cairo, all the while cooperating with the German occupation authorities in the hunting of communists. He also participated in the rescue of several Jewish families from Athens, for which he was later honoured as a "Righteous among the Nations".