Teodoro Waldner

{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific_prefix =

| name = Teodoro Waldner

| image = Teodoro G. Waldner.jpg

| office = Chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Argentine Republic

| term_start = 8 March 1985

| term_end = 11 July 1989

| president =

| minister =

| predecessor = {{ill|Julio Fernández Torres|es}}

| successor = {{ill|Emilio Osses|es}}

| office1 = Chief of the General Staff of the Argentine Air Force

| term_start1 = 14 December 1983

| term_end1 = 5 March 1985

| president1 =

| minister1 =

| predecessor1 = Augusto Hughes

| successor1 = Ernesto Horacio Crespo

| birth_name =

| birth_date = {{Birth date|year=1927|month=01|day=04|df=y}}

| birth_place = Córdoba Province, Argentina

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2014|04|13|1927|11|21}}

| death_place = Buenos Aires, Argentina

| spouse =

| children =

| branch = Argentine Air Force

| allegiance = {{flag|Argentina}}

| rank = 35px Brigadier general

| serviceyears = 1948–1989

| commands =

}}

Teodoro Guillermo Waldner (1927 – 2014){{cite web |url=http://www.fuerzaaerea.mil.ar/historia/diciembre.html |title=1 December |publisher=Fuerzaaerea.mil.ar |accessdate=2012-11-26 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130608093450/http://www.fuerzaaerea.mil.ar/historia/diciembre.html |archivedate=2013-06-08 }} was an Argentine General that served as the Chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Argentine Republic. He also served as the Chief of the General Staff of the Argentine Air Force

According to the Argentine newspaper El Diario, during the Falklands War, Waldner led a mission to Libya and brought back weapons and missiles from Gaddafi's regime.{{cite web |url=http://viejo.eldiariodelarepublica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=49151&Itemid=32 |title=El Diario de la Republica - Argentina-Libia: Un vínculo estrecho pero cambiante |website=viejo.eldiariodelarepublica.com |access-date=17 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426061842/http://viejo.eldiariodelarepublica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=49151&Itemid=32 |archive-date=26 April 2012 |url-status=dead}} After the war, in 1983 Waldner became the first head of the Air Force since the return of democracy to Argentina and was styled as a chief of staff as opposed to a commander-in-chief.{{cite web|author=AP |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/12/15/world/a-shakeup-of-military-ordered-by-argentine.html |title=A Shakeup of Military Ordered by Argentine |location=Argentina |work=The New York Times |date=1983-12-15 |accessdate=2012-11-26}} In 1985, Waldner was appointed as Chief of Joint Staff of the Armed Forces, a position he held until his retirement in 1989.{{cite web|url=http://www.nti.org/media/pdfs/argentina_missile.pdf?_=1316466791 |title=Argentina Missile Chronology |publisher=Nti.org |accessdate=2012-11-26}}