List of defence ministers of Greece

{{Short description|none}}

{{More citations needed|date=November 2024}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

This is a list of Greek war and defence ministers.

List of ministers

=Military affairs, 1899–1946=

class="wikitable"

! width="1%"|#

! width="20%"|Name

! width="10%"|Took office

! width="10%"|Left office

! width="18%"| Party

|Colonel Konstantinos Koumoundouros

|14 April 1899

|11 January 1900

|

|Nikolaos Tsamados

|11 January 1900

|14 November 1901

|

|Georgios Korpas

|25 November 1901

|6 December 1902

|

|Colonel Lymbrittis

|7 December 1902

|27 June 1903

|

|Alexios Grivas

|28 June 1903

|11 July 1903

|

|Ioannis Konstantinidis

|11 July 1903

|19 December 1903

|

|Major General Konstantinos Smolenskis

|19 December 1903

|29 December 1904

|

|Kyriakos Mavromichalis

|29 December 1904

|30 July 1905

|

|Vasileios Voudouris

|30 July 1905

|21 December 1905

|

|Georgios Theotokis

|21 December 1905

|29 July 1909

|

|Colonel Emmanouil Manousogiannakis

|29 July 1909

|28 August 1909

|

|Leonidas Lapathiotis

|31 August 1909

|30 December 1909

|

|Ioannis Konstantinidis

|30 December 1909

|31 January 1910

|

|Nikolaos Zorbas

|31 January 1910

|18 October 1910

|

|Eleftherios Venizelos

|18 October 1910

|10 March 1915

|Also Prime Minister

|Dimitrios Gounaris

|10 March 1915

|23 August 1915

|

|Lt. General Panagiotis Danglis

|23 August 1915

|7 October 1915

|

|Ioannis Giannakitsas

|7 October 1915

|7 November 1915

|

|Major General Konstantinos Kallaris

|22 June 1916

|16 September 1916

|

|Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos

|16 September 1916

|9 October 1916

|

|Nikolaos Drakos

|10 October 1916

|27 June 1917

|

|Eleftherios Venizelos

|27 June 1917

|18 November 1920

|Also Prime Minister

|Dimitrios Gounaris

|18 November 1920

|8 April 1921

|

|{{Interlanguage link|Nikolaos Theotokis|fr}}

|8 April 1921

|16 May 1922

|

|Nikolaos Stratos

|16 May 1922

|22 May 1922

|

|{{Interlanguage link|Nikolaos Theotokis|fr}}

|22 May 1922

|9 September 1922

|

|Nikolaos Triantaphyllakos

|10 September 1922

|29 September 1922

|Also Prime Minister

|Major General Theodoros Pangalos

|14 November 1922

|12 December 1922

|

|Colonel Stylianos Gonatas

|12 December 1922

|9 January 1923

|Prime Minister, minister pro tempore

|Periklis Pierrakos-Mavromichalis

|9 January 1923

|24 June 1923

|

|Colonel Stylianos Gonatas

|24 June 1923

|29 August 1923

|Also Prime Minister

|Periklis Pierrakos-Mavromichalis

|29 August 1923

|18 October 1923

|

|Colonel Stylianos Gonatas

|18 October 1923

|3 November 1923

|Prime Minister, minister pro tempore

|Major General Konstantinos Manetas

|3 November 1923

|11 January 1924

|

|Konstantinos Gondikas

|11 January 1924

|12 March 1924

|

|Georgios Kondylis

|12 March 1924

|11 June 1924

|

|Theodoros Pangalos

|11 June 1924

|24 July 1924

|

|Georgios Katechakis

|24 July 1924

|9 March 1925

|

|Konstantinos Gondikas

|9 March 1925

|26 June 1925

|

|Theodoros Pangalos

|26 June 1925

|21 April 1926

|Dictator, concurrently Prime Minister

|Charalambos Tseroulis

|21 April 1926

|22 August 1926

|

|Georgios Kondylis

|26 August 1926

|4 December 1926

|Leader of the uprising that deposed Pangalos, concurrently Prime Minister

|Alexandros Mazarakis-Ainian

|4 December 1926

|4 July 1928

|

|Themistoklis Sophoulis

|4 July 1928

|11 November 1930

|

|Eleftherios Venizelos

|11 November 1930

|23 December 1930

|

|Georgios Katechakis

|23 December 1930

|26 May 1932

|

|Alexandros Papanastasiou

|26 May 1932

|3 June 1932

|

|Theodoros Chavinis

|5 June 1932

|31 October 1932

|

|Georgios Kondylis

|3 November 1932

|13 January 1933

|

|Georgios Katechakis

|16 January 1933

|6 March 1933

|

|Alexandros Othonaios

|6 March 1933

|8 March 1933

|

|Georgios Kondylis

|10 March 1933

|20 March 1935

|

|Ioannis Metaxas

|5 March 1935

|13 March 1935

|

|Georgios Kondylis

|20 March 1935

|10 October 1935

|

|Major General Alexandros Papagos

|10 October 1935

|25 November 1935

|

|Konstantinos Demertzis

|30 November 1935

|5 March 1935

|

|Ioannis Metaxas

|14 March 1936

|29 January 1941

|

|Alexandros Koryzis{{Citation needed|date=May 2009}}

|29 January 1941

|18 April 1941

|

|Theodoros Panagakos

|21 April 1941

|2 June 1941

|

|Georgios Bakos

|30 April 1941

|7 April 1943

|As part of the Axis collaborationist regime

|Stylianos Dimitrikakis

|2 June 1941

|4 May 1942

|

|Panagiotis Kanellopoulos

|4 May 1942

|16 March 1943

|

|{{Interlanguage link|Vyron Karapanagiotis|el|3=Βύρων Καραπαναγιώτης}}

|16 March 1943

|3 April 1944

|

|Sofoklis Venizelos

|13 April 1944

|23 April 1944

|

|Georgios Papandreou

|28 May 1944

|31 December 1944

|

|Nikolaos Plastiras

|3 January 1945

|7 April 1945

|

|Vice Admiral Petros Voulgaris

|9 April 1945

|11 August 1945

|

|Alexandros Merentitis

|11 August 1945

|1 November 1945

|

|Spyridon Georgoulis

|1 November 1945

|20 November 1945

|

|Theodoros Manetas

|22 November 1945

|4 April 1946

|

=Military affairs, naval affairs & aviation, 1946=

class="wikitable"

! width="1%"|#

! width="20%"|Name

! width="10%"|Took office

! width="10%"|Left office

! width="18%"| Party

|{{Interlanguage link|Petros K. Mavromichalis|el|3=Πέτρος Κ. Μαυρομιχάλης (1887-1969)}}

|4 April 1946

|3 November 1946

|People's Party

=Military affairs, 1946–1950=

class="wikitable"

! width="1%"|#

! width="20%"|Name

! width="10%"|Took office

! width="10%"|Left office

! width="18%"| Party

|{{Interlanguage link|Philippos Dragoumis|el|3=Φίλιππος Δραγούμης}}

|4 November 1946

|24 January 1947

|People's Party

|Georgios Stratos

|27 January 1947

|12 November 1948

|People's Party

|{{Interlanguage link|Konstantinos Rendis|el|3=Κωνσταντίνος Ρέντης}}

|18 November 1948

|19 January 1949

|Panayotis Kanellopoulos

|20 January 1949

|6 January 1950

|{{Interlanguage link|National Unionist Party (Greece){{!}}National Unionist Party|el|3=Εθνικόν Ενωτικόν Κόμμα}}

=Military affairs, naval affairs & aviation, 1950=

class="wikitable"

! width="1%"|#

! width="20%"|Name

! width="10%"|Took office

! width="10%"|Left office

! width="18%"| Party

|Ioannis Theotokis

|7 January 1950

|23 March 1950

|

|Panagiotis Kanellopoulos

|23 March 1950

|15 April 1950

|{{Interlanguage link|National Unionist Party (Greece){{!}}National Unionist Party|el|3=Εθνικόν Ενωτικόν Κόμμα}}

=National defence, 1950–present=

class="wikitable"

! width="1%"|#

! width="20%"|Name

! width="10%"|Took office

! width="10%"|Left office

! width="18%"| Party

|{{Interlanguage link|Philippos Manouilidis|el|3=Φίλιππος Μανουηλίδης}}

|15 April 1950

|18 August 1950

|Democratic Socialist Party

|Sofoklis Venizelos

|21 August 1950

|28 August 1950

|{{Interlanguage link|Konstantinos Rendis|el|3=Κωνσταντίνος Ρέντης}}

|28 August 1950

|13 September 1950

|Konstantinos Karamanlis

|13 September 1950

|2 November 1950

|People's Party

|General (ret.) Panagiotis Spiliotopoulos

|30 July 1951

|27 October 1951

|Former Chief of the Army General Staff

|Admiral (ret.) Alexandros Sakellariou

|27 October 1951

|28 March 1952

|Former Chief of the Navy General Staff

|Sofoklis Venizelos

|10 April 1952

|24 July 1952

|Georgios Mavros

|24 July 1952

|11 October 1952

|Lt. General (ret.) Ioannis Pitsikas

|11 October 1952

|18 November 1952

|

|Marshal (ret.) Alexandros Papagos

|23 November 1952

|2 December 1952

|Greek Rally, former Commander-in-Chief of the Greek military

|Panagiotis Kanellopoulos

|2 December 1952

|6 June 1955

|Konstantinos Karamanlis

|6 October 1955

|10 January 1956

|Sotirios Stergiopoulos

|11 January 1956

|27 February 1956

|

|Aristeidis Protopapadakis

|29 February 1956

|2 March 1958

|National Radical Union

|Sotirios Stergiopoulos

|5 March 1958

|17 May 1958

|

|Konstantinos Karamanlis

|17 May 1958

|20 September 1961

|National Radical Union

|Air Vice Marshal (ret.) {{Interlanguage link|Charalambos Potamianos|el|3=Χαράλαμπος Ποταμιάνος}}

|20 September 1961

|4 November 1961

|

|Aristeidis Protopapadakis

|4 November 1961

|11 June 1963

|National Radical Union

|{{Interlanguage link|Philippos Dragoumis|el|3=Φίλιππος Δραγούμης}}

|19 June 1963

|28 September 1963

|

|Dimitrios Papanikolopoulos

|29 September 1963

|18 February 1964

|

|Petros Garoufalias

|18 February 1964

|15 July 1965

|Stavros Kostopoulos

|15 July 1965

|21 December 1966

|Center Union
Dissident Center Union
Liberal Democratic Center

|Ioannis Paraskevopoulos

|22 December 1966

|30 March 1967

|

|{{Interlanguage link|Panagiotis Papaligouras|el|3=Παναγής Παπαληγούρας}}

|3 April 1967

|21 April 1967

|National Radical Union

|Lt. General Grigorios Spandidakis

|21 April 1967

|13 December 1967

|Military regime

|Colonel (Ret.) Georgios Papadopoulos

|13 December 1967

|8 October 1973

|Military regime

|Nikolaos Efessios

|8 October 1973

|25 November 1973

|Military regime

|Efstathios Latsoudis

|25 November 1973

|24 July 1974

|Military regime

|Evangelos Averoff

|26 July 1974

|19 October 1981

|National Radical Union (1974)
New Democracy (1974–81)

|Andreas Papandreou

|21 October 1981

|25 April 1986

|Panhellenic Socialist Movement

|Colonel (ret.) Ioannis Charalambopoulos

|25 April 1986

|1 July 1989

|Panhellenic Socialist Movement

|Ioannis Varvitsiotis

|2 July 1989

|7 October 1989

|Theodoros Degiannis

|12 October 1989

|23 November 1989

|

|Tzannis Tzannetakis

|23 November 1989

|12 February 1990

|Theodoros Degiannis

|13 February 1990

|11 April 1990

|

|Ioannis Varvitsiotis

|11 April 1990

|13 October 1993

|Gerasimos Arsenis

|13 October 1993

|24 September 1996

|Panhellenic Socialist Movement

|Akis Tsochatzopoulos

|24 September 1996

|23 October 2001

|Panhellenic Socialist Movement

|Yiannos Papantoniou

|23 October 2001

|10 March 2004

|Panhellenic Socialist Movement

|Spilios Spiliotopoulos

|10 March 2004

|15 February 2006

|Evaggelos Meimarakis

|15 February 2006

|7 October 2009

|Evangelos Venizelos

|7 October 2009

|17 June 2011

|Panhellenic Socialist Movement

|Panos Beglitis

|17 June 2011

|11 November 2011

|Panhellenic Socialist Movement

|Dimitris Avramopoulos

|11 November 2011

|17 May 2012

|General (ret.) Frangoulis Frangos

|17 May 2012

|21 June 2012

|Independent, former Chief of Army General Staff

|Panos Panagiotopoulos

|21 June 2012

|25 June 2013

|Dimitris Avramopoulos

|25 June 2013

|3 November 2014

|3 November 2014

|27 January 2015

|Panos Kammenos

|27 January 2015

|28 August 2015

|Independent Greeks

|Air Chief Marshal (ret.) Ioannis Giagkos{{Cite web |date=2015-08-28 |title=Caretaker government to be sworn in at 1pm on Friday |url=https://www.tovima.gr/2015/08/28/international/caretaker-government-to-be-sworn-in-at-1pm-on-friday/ |access-date=2024-11-30 |website=ΤΟ ΒΗΜΑ |language=el}}

|28 August 2015

|23 September 2015

|Independent, former Chief of the National Defence General Staff

|Panos Kammenos

|23 September 2015

|13 January 2019

|Independent Greeks

|Admiral (ret.) Evangelos Apostolakis{{Cite web |last= |date=2019-01-13 |title=Νέος υπουργός Εθνικής Άμυνας ο Αρχηγός ΓΕΕΘΑ, Ευάγγελος Αποστολάκης |url=https://www.cnn.gr/politiki/story/161694/neos-ypoyrgos-ethnikis-amynas-o-arxigos-geetha-eyaggelos-apostolakis |access-date=2024-11-30 |website=CNN Greece |language=el}}

|14 January 2019

|9 July 2019

|Independent, previously Chief of the National Defence General Staff

|Nikos Panagiotopoulos{{Cite web |date=2019-07-08 |title=New Greek PM sworn in and a new Cabinet is announced |url=https://neoskosmos.com/en/2019/07/09/news/greece/new-greek-pm-sworn-in-and-a-new-cabinet-is-announced/ |access-date=2024-11-30 |website=NEOS KOSMOS |language=en}}

|9 July 2019

|Incumbent

References

{{Reflist}}