Georgios Zoitakis (Γεώργιος Ζωιτάκης) (January 1910 - October 21, 1996) was a general and Greek regent.
Georgios Zoitakis was born in Naupacto. He graduated from the Hellenic Military Academy in 1932, and fought in the Greco-Italian War and in the Battle of Greece in a battalion of Evzones with the rank of Lieutenant. During the Occupation of the Axis of Greece, he joined the EDES guerrillas in his native Aetolia-Acarnania.
On April 21, 1967, Colonel Georgios Papadopoulos staged a coup establishing the regime of the colonels. This regime did not have the full support of the army, and on December 13, 1967, Constantine II of Greece gave a counter coup. After his unsuccessful attempt the king went into exile. General Georgios Zoitakis acted as regent instead of the absent king. On July 1, 1973 the regime of the Colonels formally abolished the monarchy and appointed Georgios Papadopoulos as President of Greece.
After the return to democracy in Greece in 1974, Zoitakis was convicted by a court of justice for high treason.
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