This is a list of Greek war and defence ministers.
List of ministers
Military affairs, 1899–1946
| # |
Name |
Took office |
Left office |
Party |
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Colonel Konstantinos Koumoundouros |
14 April 1899 |
11 January 1900 |
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Nikolaos Tsamados |
11 January 1900 |
14 November 1901 |
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Georgios Korpas |
25 November 1901 |
6 December 1902 |
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Colonel Lymbrittis |
7 December 1902 |
27 June 1903 |
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Alexios Grivas |
28 June 1903 |
11 July 1903 |
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Ioannis Konstantinidis |
11 July 1903 |
19 December 1903 |
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Major General Konstantinos Smolenskis |
19 December 1903 |
29 December 1904 |
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Kyriakos Mavromichalis |
29 December 1904 |
30 July 1905 |
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Vasileios Voudouris |
30 July 1905 |
21 December 1905 |
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Georgios Theotokis |
21 December 1905 |
29 July 1909 |
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Colonel Emmanouil Manousogiannakis |
29 July 1909 |
28 August 1909 |
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Leonidas Lapathiotis |
31 August 1909 |
30 December 1909 |
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Ioannis Konstantinidis |
30 December 1909 |
31 January 1910 |
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Nikolaos Zorbas |
31 January 1910 |
18 October 1910 |
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Eleftherios Venizelos |
18 October 1910 |
10 March 1915 |
Also Prime Minister |
|
Dimitrios Gounaris |
10 March 1915 |
23 August 1915 |
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Lt. General Panagiotis Danglis |
23 August 1915 |
7 October 1915 |
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Ioannis Giannakitsas |
7 October 1915 |
7 November 1915 |
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Major General Konstantinos Kallaris |
22 June 1916 |
16 September 1916 |
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Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos |
16 September 1916 |
9 October 1916 |
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Nikolaos Drakos |
10 October 1916 |
27 June 1917 |
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Eleftherios Venizelos |
27 June 1917 |
18 November 1920 |
Also Prime Minister |
|
Dimitrios Gounaris |
18 November 1920 |
8 April 1921 |
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Nikolaos Theotokis [fr] |
8 April 1921 |
16 May 1922 |
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Nikolaos Stratos |
16 May 1922 |
22 May 1922 |
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Nikolaos Theotokis [fr] |
22 May 1922 |
9 September 1922 |
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Nikolaos Triantaphyllakos |
10 September 1922 |
29 September 1922 |
Also Prime Minister |
|
Major General Theodoros Pangalos |
14 November 1922 |
12 December 1922 |
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Colonel Stylianos Gonatas |
12 December 1922 |
9 January 1923 |
Prime Minister, minister pro tempore |
|
Periklis Pierrakos-Mavromichalis |
9 January 1923 |
24 June 1923 |
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Colonel Stylianos Gonatas |
24 June 1923 |
29 August 1923 |
Also Prime Minister |
|
Periklis Pierrakos-Mavromichalis |
29 August 1923 |
18 October 1923 |
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Colonel Stylianos Gonatas |
18 October 1923 |
3 November 1923 |
Prime Minister, minister pro tempore |
|
Major General Konstantinos Manetas |
3 November 1923 |
11 January 1924 |
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Konstantinos Gondikas |
11 January 1924 |
12 March 1924 |
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Georgios Kondylis |
12 March 1924 |
11 June 1924 |
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Theodoros Pangalos |
11 June 1924 |
24 July 1924 |
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Georgios Katechakis |
24 July 1924 |
9 March 1925 |
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Konstantinos Gondikas |
9 March 1925 |
26 June 1925 |
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Theodoros Pangalos |
26 June 1925 |
21 April 1926 |
Dictator, concurrently Prime Minister |
|
Charalambos Tseroulis |
21 April 1926 |
22 August 1926 |
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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 |
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Themistoklis Sophoulis |
4 July 1928 |
11 November 1930 |
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Eleftherios Venizelos |
11 November 1930 |
23 December 1930 |
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Georgios Katechakis |
23 December 1930 |
26 May 1932 |
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Alexandros Papanastasiou |
26 May 1932 |
3 June 1932 |
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Theodoros Chavinis |
5 June 1932 |
31 October 1932 |
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Georgios Kondylis |
3 November 1932 |
13 January 1933 |
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Georgios Katechakis |
16 January 1933 |
6 March 1933 |
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Alexandros Othonaios |
6 March 1933 |
8 March 1933 |
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Georgios Kondylis |
10 March 1933 |
20 March 1935 |
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Ioannis Metaxas |
5 March 1935 |
13 March 1935 |
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Georgios Kondylis |
20 March 1935 |
10 October 1935 |
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Major General Alexandros Papagos |
10 October 1935 |
25 November 1935 |
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Konstantinos Demertzis |
30 November 1935 |
5 March 1935 |
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Ioannis Metaxas |
14 March 1936 |
29 January 1941 |
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Alexandros Koryzis |
29 January 1941 |
18 April 1941 |
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Theodoros Panagakos |
21 April 1941 |
2 June 1941 |
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Georgios Bakos |
30 April 1941 |
7 April 1943 |
As part of the Axis collaborationist regime |
|
Stylianos Dimitrikakis |
2 June 1941 |
4 May 1942 |
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Panagiotis Kanellopoulos |
4 May 1942 |
16 March 1943 |
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Vyron Karapanagiotis [el] |
16 March 1943 |
3 April 1944 |
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Sofoklis Venizelos |
13 April 1944 |
23 April 1944 |
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Georgios Papandreou |
28 May 1944 |
31 December 1944 |
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Nikolaos Plastiras |
3 January 1945 |
7 April 1945 |
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Vice Admiral Petros Voulgaris |
9 April 1945 |
11 August 1945 |
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Alexandros Merentitis |
11 August 1945 |
1 November 1945 |
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Spyridon Georgoulis |
1 November 1945 |
20 November 1945 |
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Theodoros Manetas |
22 November 1945 |
4 April 1946 |
|
Military affairs, naval affairs & aviation, 1946
| # |
Name |
Took office |
Left office |
Party |
|
Petros K. Mavromichalis [el] |
4 April 1946 |
3 November 1946 |
People's Party |
Military affairs, 1946–1950
| # |
Name |
Took office |
Left office |
Party |
|
Philippos Dragoumis [el] |
4 November 1946 |
24 January 1947 |
People's Party |
|
Georgios Stratos |
27 January 1947 |
12 November 1948 |
People's Party |
|
Konstantinos Rendis [el] |
18 November 1948 |
19 January 1949 |
Liberal Party |
|
Panayotis Kanellopoulos |
20 January 1949 |
6 January 1950 |
National Unionist Party [el] |
Military affairs, naval affairs & aviation, 1950
| # |
Name |
Took office |
Left office |
Party |
|
Ioannis Theotokis |
7 January 1950 |
23 March 1950 |
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Panagiotis Kanellopoulos |
23 March 1950 |
15 April 1950 |
National Unionist Party [el] |
National defence, 1950–present
| # |
Name |
Took office |
Left office |
Party |
|
Philippos Manouilidis [el] |
15 April 1950 |
18 August 1950 |
Democratic Socialist Party |
|
Sofoklis Venizelos |
21 August 1950 |
28 August 1950 |
Liberal Party |
|
Konstantinos Rendis [el] |
28 August 1950 |
13 September 1950 |
Liberal Party |
|
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 |
Liberal Party |
|
Georgios Mavros |
24 July 1952 |
11 October 1952 |
Liberal Party |
|
Lt. General (ret.) Ioannis Pitsikas |
11 October 1952 |
18 November 1952 |
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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 |
Greek Rally |
|
Konstantinos Karamanlis |
6 October 1955 |
10 January 1956 |
Greek Rally |
|
Sotirios Stergiopoulos |
11 January 1956 |
27 February 1956 |
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Aristeidis Protopapadakis |
29 February 1956 |
2 March 1958 |
National Radical Union |
|
Sotirios Stergiopoulos |
5 March 1958 |
17 May 1958 |
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Konstantinos Karamanlis |
17 May 1958 |
20 September 1961 |
National Radical Union |
|
Air Vice Marshal (ret.) Charalambos Potamianos [el] |
20 September 1961 |
4 November 1961 |
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Aristeidis Protopapadakis |
4 November 1961 |
11 June 1963 |
National Radical Union |
|
Philippos Dragoumis [el] |
19 June 1963 |
28 September 1963 |
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Dimitrios Papanikolopoulos |
29 September 1963 |
18 February 1964 |
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Petros Garoufalias |
18 February 1964 |
15 July 1965 |
Center Union |
|
Stavros Kostopoulos |
15 July 1965 |
21 December 1966 |
Center Union
Dissident Center Union
Liberal Democratic Center |
|
Ioannis Paraskevopoulos |
22 December 1966 |
30 March 1967 |
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Panagiotis Papaligouras [el] |
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 |
New Democracy |
|
Theodoros Degiannis |
12 October 1989 |
23 November 1989 |
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Tzannis Tzannetakis |
23 November 1989 |
12 February 1990 |
New Democracy |
|
Theodoros Degiannis |
13 February 1990 |
11 April 1990 |
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Ioannis Varvitsiotis |
11 April 1990 |
13 October 1993 |
New Democracy |
|
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 |
New Democracy |
|
Evaggelos Meimarakis |
15 February 2006 |
7 October 2009 |
New Democracy |
|
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 |
New Democracy |
|
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 |
New Democracy |
|
Dimitris Avramopoulos |
25 June 2013 |
3 November 2014 |
New Democracy |
|
Nikos Dendias |
3 November 2014 |
27 January 2015 |
New Democracy |
|
Panos Kammenos |
27 January 2015 |
28 August 2015 |
Independent Greeks |
|
Air Chief Marshal (ret.) Ioannis Giagkos |
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 |
14 January 2019 |
9 July 2019 |
Independent, previously Chief of the National Defence General Staff |
|
Nikos Panagiotopoulos |
9 July 2019 |
Incumbent |
New Democracy |
