Chief of the Hellenic Navy General Staff
The Chief of the Hellenic Navy General Staff (Greek: Αρχηγός του Γενικού Επιτελείου Ναυτικού, abbrev. Α/ΓΕΝ) is the head of the Hellenic Navy General Staff and commander of the Hellenic Navy. The position is customarily held by a three-star flag officer (Vice Admiral). As part of Greece's membership in NATO, from 1967 until 1999 the Chief of the HNGS was also commander of NATO COMEDEAST.
List of chiefs
| # | Name | Image | Rank | From | To | Notes on term and later career |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Georgios A. Kountouriotis | Captain | 13.12.1907[1] | 10.07.1908 | ||
| 2. | Alexandros Sachtouris | Rear Admiral | 10.07.1908 | 03.08.1911 | ||
| 3. | Petros Ginis | Captain | 07.01.1911 | 15.04.1912 | MP for Spetses (1910, 1915), Senator (1932–33) | |
| 4. | Pavlos Kountouriotis |  |
Rear Admiral | 16.04.1912 | 16.09.1912 | Commander of the Aegean Fleet during the Balkan Wars (1912–13), Commander's Cross of the Cross of Valour (1914), Member of the "Triumvirate of National Defence" (1916–17), Regent (1920), First President of the Second Hellenic Republic (1924–29) |
| 5. | Matthaios Matthaiopoulos | Captain | 16.09.1912 | 07.04.1914 | ||
| 6. | Dimitrios Papachristos | Rear Admiral | 14.04.1914 | 16.06.1914 | 1st term; Senator (1929–35) | |
| 7. | Sofoklis Dousmanis |  |
Rear Admiral | 19.06.1914 | 14.06.1917 | 1st term; Minister for Naval Affairs (1935) |
| 8. | Georgios Kakoulidis | Captain | 22.06.1917 | 18.12.1917 | MP and Senator, Governor-General of Thrace | |
| 9. | Dimitrios Papachristos | Rear Admiral | 18.12.1917 | 22.06.1920 | 2nd term | |
| 10. | Ioannis Ipitis | Rear Admiral | 09.11.1920 | 26.04.1921 | Vice-Minister for Naval Affairs (1950) | |
| 11. | Konstantinos Malikopoulos | Rear Admiral | 29.04.1921 | 15.12.1921 | ||
| 12. | Sofoklis Dousmanis | Rear Admiral | 15.12.1921 | 12.10.1922 | 2nd term | |
| 13. | Agisilaos Gerontas | Captain | 12.10.1922 | 11.03.1924 | ||
| 14. | Anastasios Gonatas | Captain | 11.03.1924 | 24.03.1924 | 1st term | |
| 15. | Vikentios Loprestis | Rear Admiral | 24.03.1924 | 08.07.1925 | ||
| 16. | Anastasios Gonatas | Captain | 08.07.1925 | 27.02.1926 | 2nd term | |
| 17. | Christos Louis | Captain | 27.02.1926 | 07.07.1926 | 1st term; Minister for Communications (1945) | |
| 18. | Ioannis Demestichas |  |
Captain | 07.07.1926 | 03.10.1926 | 1st term; Minister for Aviation and Naval Affairs (1933), Minister for the Interior, Education, and Mercantile Marine (1944) |
| 19. | Christos Louis | Captain | 03.10.1926 | 01.12.1926 | 2nd term | |
| 20. | Ioannis Demestichas | |
Captain | 01.12.1926 | 17.02.1927 | 2nd term |
| 21. | Konstantinos Typaldos-Alfonsatos | Rear Admiral | 17.02.1927 | 15.07.1927 | Minister for Naval Affairs (1922) | |
| 22. | Konstantinos Malikopoulos | Rear Admiral | 15.07.1927 | 07.12.1928 | ||
| 23. | Georgios Panas | Rear Admiral | 07.12.1928 | 18.02.1931 | ||
| 24. | Christos Louis | Captain | 18.02.1931 | 07.12.1931 | 3rd term | |
| 25. | Periklis Dimoulis | Rear Admiral | 07.12.1931 | 10.12.1932 | 1st term | |
| 26. | Ioannis Demestichas | |
Captain | 10.12.1932 | 06.03.1933 | 3rd term |
| 27. | Christos Louis | Captain | 06.03.1933 | 09.03.1933 | 4th term | |
| 28. | Periklis Dimoulis | Rear Admiral | 09.03.1933 | 17.08.1933 | 2nd term | |
| 29. | Epameinondas Kavvadias | Captain | 23.08.1933 | 17.07.1934 | 1st term; Fleet Commander (1941–42), Vice-Minister for Naval Affairs (1942–43), Commander's Cross of the Cross of Valour (1947) | |
| 30. | Periklis Dimoulis | Rear Admiral | 17.07.1934 | 03.03.1935 | 3rd term | |
| 31. | Dimitrios Oikonomou |  |
Vice Admiral | 03.03.1935 | 19.12.1936 | |
| 32. | Epameinondas Kavvadias | Captain | 19.12.1936 | 12.01.1937 | 2nd term | |
| 33. | Alexandros Sakellariou |  |
Rear Admiral | 12.01.1937 | 13.08.1938 | 1st term; Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Naval Affairs in the Greek government in exile (1941–42), Commander's Cross of the Cross of Valour (1947), Minister for Supply (1947), Minister for Naval Affairs (1947–48), Minister for National Defence (1951–52) |
| 34. | Epameinondas Kavvadias | Rear Admiral | 13.08.1938 | 17.09.1938 | 3rd term | |
| 35. | Alexandros Sakellariou | |
Rear Admiral | 17.09.1938 | 20.04.1941 | 2nd term |
| 36. | Haralambos Delagrammatikas | Rear Admiral | 26.04.1941 | 30.04.1941 | ||
| 37. | Petros Voulgaris | Vice Admiral | 03.09.1944 | 11.04.1945 | Prime Minister of Greece and Minister for Aviation, Naval Affairs, Interior, and Foreign Affairs (1945), Commander's Cross of the Cross of Valour (1947) | |
| 38. | Grigorios Mezeviris | Vice Admiral | 11.04.1945 | 14.10.1946 | 1st term | |
| 39. | Alfredos Leontopoulos | Rear Admiral | 14.10.1946 | 02.02.1947 | ||
| 40. | Grigorios Mezeviris | Vice Admiral | 02.02.1947 | 20.09.1947 | 2nd term | |
| 41. | Periklis Antonopoulos | Vice Admiral | 20.09.1947 | 17.11.1951 | ||
| 42 | Panagiotis Konstas | Rear Admiral | 17.11.1951 | 06.09.1952 | ||
| 43 | Pyrros Lappas | Vice Admiral | 06.09.1952 | 13.09.1958 | ||
| 44 | Konstantinos Tsatsos | Vice Admiral | 13.09.1958 | 04.12.1959 | ||
| 45. | Georgios Panagiotopoulos | Vice Admiral | 4.12.1959 | 27.11.1961 | ||
| 46. | Dimitrios Kiosses | Vice Admiral | 27.11.1961 | 12.12.1963 | ||
| 47. | Spyridon Avgeris | Vice Admiral | 12.12.1963 | 30.03.1967 | Promoted to Chief of the Hellenic National Defence General Staff (1967) | |
| 48. | Konstantinos Engolfopoulos | Vice Admiral | 30.03.1967 | 24.04.1967 | 1st term, dismissed following the establishment of the Regime of the Colonels; Minister for Mercantile Marine (1974) | |
| 49. | Ippokratis Dedes | Vice Admiral | 24.04.1967 | 13.12.1967 | Appointed by the Regime of the Colonels, dismissed following the failure of the counter-coup of King Constantine II | |
| 50. | Stavros Pervainas | Vice Admiral | 13.12.1967 | 18.12.1968 | Appointed by the Regime of the Colonels | |
| 51. | Konstantinos Margaritis | Vice Admiral | 18.12.1968 | 01.06.1973 | Appointed by the Regime of the Colonels | |
| 52. | Petros Arapakis | Vice Admiral | 01.06.1973 | 08.01.1975 | Appointed by the Regime of the Colonels, retained after the Metapolitefsi | |
| 53. | Konstantinos Engolfopoulos | Vice Admiral | 08.01.1975 | 08.01.1976 | 2nd term | |
| 54. | Spyridon Mourkis | Vice Admiral | 08.01.1976 | 16.09.1976 | ||
| 55. | Spyridon Konofaos | Vice Admiral | 16.09.1976 | 05.01.1982 | ||
| 56. | Odysseas Kapetos | Vice Admiral | 05.01.1982 | 23.03.1982 | ||
| 57. | Nikolaos Pappas | Vice Admiral | 23.03.1982 | 22.12.1986 | Minister for Mercantile Marine (1989–90) | |
| 58. | Leonidas Vasilikopoulos | Vice Admiral | 22.12.1986 | 17.07.1989 | Director of the National Intelligence Service (1993–1996) | |
| 59. | Evangelos Lagaras | Vice Admiral | 17.07.1989 | 28.02.1992 | ||
| 60. | Iraklis Drikos | Vice Admiral | 28.02.1992 | 17.12.1993 | ||
| 61. | Ioannis Stagas | Vice Admiral | 17.12.1993 | 16.02.1996 | ||
| 62. | Leonidas Paliogiorgos | Vice Admiral | 16.02.1996 | 16.02.1998 | ||
| 63. | Georgios Ioannidis | Vice Admiral | 16.02.1998 | 15.02.2001 | ||
| 64. | Georgios Theodoroulakis | Vice Admiral | 16.02.2001 | 05.03.2002 | ||
| 65. | Antonis Antoniadis | Vice Admiral | 05.03.2002 | 15.02.2005 | ||
| 66. | Dimitrios Gousis | Vice Admiral | 15.02.2005 | 5.02.2008 | ||
| 67. | Georgios Karamalikis |  |
Vice Admiral | 05.02.2008 | 17.02.2010 | |
| 68. | Dimitrios Elefsiniotis | Vice Admiral | 17.02.2010 | 01.11.2011 | ||
| 69. | Kosmas Christidis | Vice Admiral | 01.11.2011 | 07.03.2013 | ||
| 70. | Evangelos Apostolakis |  |
Vice Admiral | 07.03.2013 | 16.9.2015 | Promoted to Admiral and Chief of the Hellenic National Defence General Staff (since 2015) |
| 71. | Georgios Giakoumakis |  |
Vice Admiral | 16.9.2015 | incumbent | |
References
- ↑ Note: Greece officially adopted the Gregorian calendar on 16 February 1923 (which became 1 March). All dates prior to that, unless specifically denoted, are Old Style.
Sources
- "Διατελέσαντες Αρχηγοί ΓΕΝ" (in Greek). Hellenic Navy. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
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