Xenophon Euthymiou Zolotas

Xenophon Euthymiou Zolotas (griechisch Ξενοφών Ευθυμίου Ζολώτας;* 26. März, 1904; † 11. Juni 2004) war ein griechischer Volkswirt und 1989 kurzzeitig parteiloser Ministerpräsident Griechenlands.

Zolotas studierte in Athen, sowie in Leipzig und Paris. 1928 bis 1968 war er Professor für Wirtschaftswissenschaften an der Athener Universität. Er war Vorstandsmitglied der UNRRA und hatte hohe Ämter im Internationalen Währengsfond inne.

Zolotas war zwischen 1944-1945, 1955-1967 und 1974-1981 Direktor der Bank von Griechenland. Er hat zahlreiche Arbeiten zu griechischen und internationalen Wirtschaftsthemen veröffentlicht.

Als im Jahre 1989 weder die PASOK noch die Nea Dimokratia eine Mehrheit erreichen konnte, erklärte sich der damals 85-jährige bereit bis zu Neuwahlen, das Amt des Ministerpräsidenten anzutreten. Als bei den Wahlen 1990 die Nea Dimokratia unter Konstantinos Mitsotakis die Mehrheit erreichte, trat er zurück.

Rede von Zolotas am 26/9/1957 (nach dem Motto it's Greek to me (es ist für mich Griechisch d.h. ich verstehe nichts ) verwendet er fast nur griechische Wörter:"

"I always wished to address this Assembly in Greek, but realized that it would have been indeed "Greek" to all present in this room. I found out, however, that I could make my address in Greek which would still be English to everybody. With your permission, Mr. Chairman, l shall do it now, using with the exception of articles and prepositions, only Greek words.

"Kyrie, I eulogize the archons of the Panethnic Numismatic Thesaurus and the Ecumenical Trapeza for the orthodoxy of their axioms, methods and policies, although there is an episode of cacophony of the Trapeza with Hellas. With enthusiasm we dialogue and synagonize at the synods of our didymous organizations in which polymorphous economic ideas and dogmas are analyzed and synthesized. Our critical problems such as the numismatic plethora generate some agony and melancholy. This phenomenon is characteristic of our epoch. But, to my thesis, we have the dynamism to program therapeutic practices as a prophylaxis from chaos and catastrophe. In parallel, a Panethnic unhypocritical economic synergy and harmonization in a democratic climate is basic. I apologize for my eccentric monologue. I emphasize my euharistia to you, Kyrie to the eugenic arid generous American Ethnos and to the organizes and protagonists of his Amphictyony and the gastronomic symposia".

Rede am 2-ten Oktober 1959

Kyrie, it is Zeus' anathema on our epoch (for the dynamism of our economies) and the heresy of our economic method and policies that we should agonize the Skylla of nomismatic plethora and the Charybdis of economic anaemia. It is not my idiosyncracy to be ironic or sarcastic but my diagnosis would be that politicians are rather cryptoplethorists. Although they emphatically stigmatize nomismatic plethora, they energize it through their tactics and practices. Our policies should be based more on economic and less on political criteria. Our gnomon has to be a metron between economic,strategic and philanthropic scopes. Political magic has always been anti-economic. In an epoch characterized by monopolies, oligopolies, monopolistic antagonism and polymorphous inelasticities, our policies have to be more orthological, but this should not be metamorphosed into plethorophobia, which is endemic among academic economists. Nomismatic symmetry should not antagonize economic acme. A greater harmonization between the practices of the economic and nomismatic archons is basic. Parallel to this,we have to synchronize and harmonize more and more our economic and nomismatic policies panethnically. These scopes are more practicable now, when the prognostics of the political and economic barometer are halcyonic. The history of our didimus organization on this sphere has been didactic and their gnostic practices will always be a tonic to the polyonymous and idiomorphous ethnical economies. The genesis of the programmed organization will dynamize these policies. Therefore, i sympathize, although not without criticism one or two themes with the apostles and the hierarchy of our organs in their zeal to program orthodox economic and nomismatic policies, although I have some logomachy with them.I apologize for having tyranized you with my Hellenic phraseology. In my epilogue, i emphasize my eulogy to the philoxenous aytochtons of this cosmopolitan metropolis and my encomium to you, Kyrie stenographers.

Analog ein Vortrag in "französischer Sprache":

Le Dedale Synchrone Du Cosmos Politique

Kyrie, sans apostropher ma rhetorique dans l’ emphase et la plethore, j’ analyserai elliptiquement, sans nul gallicisme, le dedale synchrone du cosmos politique caracterise par des syndromes de crise paralysant l’ organisation systematique de notre economie. Nous sommes periodiquement sceptiques et neurastheniques devant ces paroxysmes periphrasiques, cette boulimie des demagogues, ces hyperboles, ces paradoxes hypocrites et cyniques qui symbolisent une democratie anachronique et chaotique. Les phenomenes fantastiques qu’on nous prophetise pour l’ epoque astronomique detroneront les programmes rachitiques, hybrides et sporadiques de notre cycle atomique. Seule une panacee authentique et draconienne metamorphosera cette agonie prodrome de l’ apocalypse et une genese homologue du Phenix. Les economistes technocrates seront les strateges d’ un theatre polemique et dynamique et non les proselytes du marasme. Autochtones helleniques, dans une apologie cathartique, psalmodions les theoremes de la democratie thesaurisante et heroique, soyons allergiques aux parasites allogenes dont les sophismes trop hyalins n’ ont qu’une pseudodialectique. En epilogue a ces agapes, mon amphore a l’ apogee, je prophetise toute euphorie et apotheose a Monsieur Giscard d’ Estaing, prototype enthousiasmant de la neo-orthodoxie economique et symbole de la palingenesie de son ethnie gallique.

Vorgänger Yiannis Grivas
Premierminister von Griechenland 1989-1990
Nachfolger Konstantinos Mitsotakis