List of defence ministers of Greece

This is a list of Greek war and defence ministers.

List of ministers Military affairs, 1899–1946 #Name Took officeLeft officeNotesColonel Konstantinos Koumoundouros14 April 189911 January 1900Nikolaos Tsamados11 January 190014 November 1901Georgios Korpas25 November 19016 December 1902Colonel Lymbrittis7 December 190227 June 1903Alexios Grivas28 June 190311 July 1903Ioannis Konstantinidis11 July 190319 December 1903Major General Konstantinos Smolenskis19 December 190329 December 1904Kyriakos Mavromichalis29 December 190430 July 1905Vasileios Voudouris30 July 190521 December 1905Georgios Theotokis21 December 190529 July 1909Colonel Emmanouil Manousogiannakis29 July 190928 August 1909Leonidas Lapathiotis31 August 190930 December 1909Ioannis Konstantinidis30 December 190931 January 1910Nikolaos Zorbas31 January 191018 October 1910Eleftherios Venizelos18 October 191010 March 1915Also Prime MinisterDimitrios Gounaris10 March 191523 August 1915Also Prime MinisterLt. General Panagiotis Danglis23 August 19157 October 1915Ioannis Giannakitsas7 October 19157 November 1915Major General Konstantinos Kallaris22 June 191616 September 1916Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos16 September 19169 October 1916Nikolaos Drakos10 October 191627 June 1917Eleftherios Venizelos27 June 191718 November 1920Also Prime MinisterDimitrios Gounaris18 November 19208 April 19218 April 192116 May 1922Nikolaos Stratos16 May 192222 May 192222 May 19229 September 1922Nikolaos Triantafyllakos10 September 192216 September 1922Also Prime MinisterAnastasios Charalambis16 September 192214 November 1922Also Prime Minister until 17 September 1922Major General Theodoros Pangalos14 November 192212 December 1922Colonel Stylianos Gonatas12 December 19229 January 1923Prime Minister, minister pro temporePeriklis Pierrakos-Mavromichalis9 January 192324 June 1923Colonel Stylianos Gonatas24 June 192329 August 1923Also Prime MinisterPeriklis Pierrakos-Mavromichalis29 August 192318 October 1923Colonel Stylianos Gonatas18 October 19233 November 1923Prime Minister, minister pro temporeMajor General Konstantinos Manetas3 November 192311 January 1924Konstantinos Gondikas11 January 192412 March 1924Georgios Kondylis12 March 192411 June 1924Theodoros Pangalos11 June 192424 July 1924Georgios Katechakis24 July 19249 March 1925Konstantinos Gondikas9 March 192526 June 1925Theodoros Pangalos26 June 192521 April 1926Dictator, concurrently Prime MinisterCharalambos Tseroulis21 April 192622 August 1926Georgios Kondylis26 August 19264 December 1926Leader of the uprising that deposed Pangalos, concurrently Prime MinisterAlexandros Mazarakis-Ainian4 December 19264 July 1928Themistoklis Sofoulis4 July 192811 November 1930Eleftherios Venizelos11 November 193023 December 1930Also Prime MinisterGeorgios Katechakis23 December 193026 May 1932Alexandros Papanastasiou26 May 19323 June 1932Theodoros Chavinis5 June 193231 October 1932Georgios Kondylis3 November 193213 January 1933Georgios Katechakis16 January 19336 March 1933Alexandros Othonaios6 March 19338 March 1933Georgios Kondylis10 March 193320 March 1935Ioannis Metaxas5 March 193513 March 1935Georgios Kondylis20 March 193510 October 1935Major General Alexandros Papagos10 October 193525 November 1935Konstantinos Demertzis30 November 19355 March 1935Ioannis Metaxas14 March 193629 January 1941Alexandros Koryzis29 January 194118 April 1941Theodoros Panagakos21 April 19412 June 1941Georgios Bakos30 April 1941 7 April 1943As part of the Axis collaborationist regimeStylianos Dimitrikakis2 June 19414 May 1942Panagiotis Kanellopoulos4 May 194216 March 194316 March 19433 April 1944Sofoklis Venizelos13 April 194423 April 1944Georgios Papandreou28 May 194431 December 1944Nikolaos Plastiras3 January 19457 April 1945Vice Admiral Petros Voulgaris9 April 194511 August 1945Alexandros Merentitis11 August 19451 November 1945Spyridon Georgoulis1 November 194520 November 1945Theodoros Manetas22 November 19454 April 1946

Military affairs, naval affairs & aviation, 1946 #Name Took officeLeft office Party4 April 19463 November 1946People's Party

Military affairs, 1946–1950 #Name Took officeLeft office Party4 November 194624 January 1947People's PartyGeorgios Stratos27 January 194712 November 1948People's Party18 November 194819 January 1949Liberal PartyPanayotis Kanellopoulos20 January 19496 January 1950

Military affairs, naval affairs & aviation, 1950 #Name Took officeLeft office PartyIoannis Theotokis7 January 195023 March 1950Panagiotis Kanellopoulos23 March 195015 April 1950

National defence, 1950–present #Name Took officeLeft office Party15 April 195018 August 1950Democratic Socialist PartySofoklis Venizelos21 August 195028 August 1950Liberal Party28 August 195013 September 1950Liberal PartyKonstantinos Karamanlis13 September 19502 November 1950People's PartyGeneral (ret.) Panagiotis Spiliotopoulos30 July 195127 October 1951Former Chief of the Army General StaffAdmiral (ret.) Alexandros Sakellariou27 October 195128 March 1952Former Chief of the Navy General StaffSofoklis Venizelos10 April 195224 July 1952Liberal PartyGeorgios Mavros24 July 195211 October 1952Liberal PartyLt. General (ret.) Ioannis Pitsikas11 October 195218 November 1952Marshal (ret.) Alexandros Papagos23 November 19522 December 1952Greek Rally, former Commander-in-Chief of the Greek militaryPanagiotis Kanellopoulos2 December 19526 June 1955Greek RallyKonstantinos Karamanlis6 October 195510 January 1956Greek RallySotirios Stergiopoulos11 January 195627 February 1956Aristeidis Protopapadakis29 February 19562 March 1958National Radical UnionSotirios Stergiopoulos5 March 195817 May 1958Konstantinos Karamanlis17 May 195820 September 1961National Radical UnionAir Vice Marshal (ret.) 20 September 19614 November 1961Aristeidis Protopapadakis4 November 196111 June 1963National Radical Union19 June 196328 September 1963Dimitrios Papanikolopoulos29 September 196318 February 1964Petros Garoufalias18 February 196415 July 1965Center UnionStavros Kostopoulos15 July 196521 December 1966Center UnionDissident Center UnionLiberal Democratic CenterIoannis Paraskevopoulos22 December 196630 March 19673 April 196721 April 1967National Radical UnionLt. General Grigorios Spandidakis21 April 196713 December 1967Military regimeColonel (Ret.) Georgios Papadopoulos13 December 19678 October 1973Military regimeNikolaos Efessios8 October 197325 November 1973Military regimeEfstathios Latsoudis25 November 197324 July 1974Military regimeEvangelos Averoff26 July 197419 October 1981National Radical Union (1974)New Democracy (1974–81)Andreas Papandreou21 October 198125 April 1986Panhellenic Socialist MovementColonel (ret.) Ioannis Charalambopoulos25 April 19861 July 1989Panhellenic Socialist MovementIoannis Varvitsiotis2 July 19897 October 1989New DemocracyTheodoros Degiannis12 October 198923 November 1989Tzannis Tzannetakis23 November 198912 February 1990New DemocracyTheodoros Degiannis13 February 199011 April 1990Ioannis Varvitsiotis11 April 199013 October 1993New DemocracyGerasimos Arsenis13 October 199324 September 1996Panhellenic Socialist MovementAkis Tsochatzopoulos24 September 199623 October 2001Panhellenic Socialist MovementYiannos Papantoniou23 October 200110 March 2004Panhellenic Socialist MovementSpilios Spiliotopoulos10 March 200415 February 2006New DemocracyEvaggelos Meimarakis15 February 20067 October 2009New DemocracyEvangelos Venizelos7 October 200917 June 2011Panhellenic Socialist MovementPanos Beglitis17 June 201111 November 2011Panhellenic Socialist MovementDimitris Avramopoulos11 November 201117 May 2012New DemocracyGeneral (ret.) Frangoulis Frangos17 May 201221 June 2012Independent, former Chief of Army General StaffPanos Panagiotopoulos21 June 201225 June 2013New DemocracyDimitris Avramopoulos25 June 20133 November 2014New DemocracyNikos Dendias3 November 201427 January 2015New DemocracyPanos Kammenos27 January 201528 August 2015Independent GreeksAir Chief Marshal (ret.) Ioannis Giagkos28 August 201523 September 2015Independent, former Chief of the National Defence General StaffPanos Kammenos23 September 201513 January 2019Independent GreeksAdmiral (ret.) Evangelos Apostolakis14 January 20199 July 2019Independent, previously Chief of the National Defence General StaffNikos Panagiotopoulos9 July 2019IncumbentNew Democracy

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