Chief of Staff of the French Navy

Chief of Staff of the French Navy
	Chef d'État-Major de La Marine
	Logo of the Marine Nationale since 1990.
	Chief of Staff of the Navy Naval Jack
	Incumbent; Amiral Christophe Prazuck; since 12 September 2011
	French Navy
Member of	Chiefs of Staff Committee
Reports to	Ministère de la Défense; Chief of the General Staff Headquarters of the Armies
Seat	Paris, France
Nominator	Ministère de la Défense
Appointer	President of the Republic; Require Prime Minister's countersignature
Term length	No fixed term
Formation	1892
First holder	Vice-Amiral Alfred Gervais
Deputy	Major Général de La Marine
Website	La Marine Nationale

The Chief of the Staff of the French Navy (French, CEMM) is the head of the French Navy and is responsible to the Minister of Defence in relation to preparation and deployment.

CEMM as a naval expert, assists:

The chef d'état-major des armées (CEMA) in the preparation of naval operations, planning, programming and the motion application of cohesiveness in consolidating future military means
The Prime Minister of France in safeguarding France's maritime apparatus (French) (missions of sauveguarde maritime (French))

CEMM has authority over:

Various naval forces command:
- Force d'action Navale (FAN) ;
- Force océanique stratégique (FOST) ;
- Action Navale (AVIA) ;
- Fusiliers Marins et Commandos (FORFUSCO) ;
Territorial organization of the navy : préfets maritime and commandants de la marine, in mainland France and overseas
Services and organizations :
- Direction du personnel militaire de la marine (DPMM)
- Direction centrale du commissariat de la marine (DCCM)
- Direction centrale des systèmes d'information de la marine (DCSIM)
- Direction centrale du service de soutien de la flotte (DCSSF)
- Direction centrale des travaux immobiliers et maritimes (DCTIM)
- Naval aeronautical service
Over the état-major de la marine who oversees, through the four divisions (human resources, planning, programmes and logistical operations), the general direction of La Marine.

CEMM presides over the board of directors of the hydrographic and oceanographic service of the navy (SHOM).

Le Chef d’état-major de La Marine[]

The Chief of Staff of the French Navy : Historic of the function[]

Well before the First World War, the Chief of Staff of the French Navy (French) was at first hand, the Military Cabinet Chief of the Minister of the Navy (French). This mode of functioning was at origin, the main utilization designation of the Military figure which had effective authority on the French Navy (French), and referred to the Amiral (Admiral) who commanded the armed naval force (French), often designated as « Amiralissime », in reference to the title of « généralissime » utilized in the French Army (French).^[1]

The First World War replaced all these functionalities in cause, with major incorporation of various tasks in order to conduct a long term industrial naval warfare in light of disposing and having the means to confront new menaces, mainly constituted by submarine warfare and mine explosions: in accordance, another sort of twin identical general staff headquarters directorate (French) was created and designated as - Directorate General of Submarine Warfare (French) - with an action domain often described as redundant, a constituted redundancy which naturally led to the dissolving of the Directorate General of Submarine Warfare DGGSM, at the end of World War I and the transfer of the various associated attribution prerogatives to the various bureaux of the general staff headquarters of the French Navy (French).

In order to dispose of an effective permanent system allowing the uniform façade transition shiftings between times of peace - preparation periods - and times of war - action periods, the Vice-Amiral (Vice-Admiral) Chief of Staff of the French Navy (French) became, in the early years of 1920s, the designated Commandant of French Naval Forces in case of war, and the various work functionalities of the general staff headquarter (French) would be in such circumstances at the disposition of the Major General of the French Navy (French), a Vice-Admiral (French), and his first deputy in times of peace.

After World War II, the progressive disappearing of the Naval Portfolio of the Minister of the Navy (French) led to confine a part of the prerogatives of the Naval Minister to the Chief of Staff of the French Navy (French), a part of the prerogatives which were in a progressive manner adopted at the Interarm (French) level by the general staff headquarters of the Armies (French) and the respective Chief of that general staff headquarters, in reference to : Chef d'État-Major des Armées (CEMA). CEMA accordingly inherited the direction responsibility of naval and maritime operations from CEMM in 1971.^[2]

In the early years of the 2000s, a large part of these organic prerogatives - forces preparations - were transferred to Chief of the general staff headquarters of the Armies (CEMA), however, the CEMM remains the principal counselor and adviser in relation to the preparation of use of the French Navy (French).

Les Chefs d’état-major de La Marine[]

Chiefs of Staff of the French Navy[]

Amiral (Admiral) Chiefs of Staff of the French Navy (French) since 1892 :^[3]

Vice-Amiral Alfred Gervais : 22 January 1892
vice-amiral Edgar Humann : 21 September 1894
Contre-Amiral Charles Chauvin : 10 November 1895
vice-amiral Jean Sallandrouze de Lamornais : 15 June 1896
vice-amiral Jules de Cuverville : 8 July 1898
contre-amiral Leonce Caillard : 15 July 1899
vice-amiral Amédée Bienaime : 1 May 1900
contre-amiral Ernest Marquer : 4 February 1902
contre-amiral Paul Campion : 18 February 1904
vice-amiral Charles Touchard : 3 February 1905
contre-amiral Charles Aubert : 1 November 1905
vice-amiral Charles Aubert : 23 May 1907
contre-amiral Laurent Marin-Darbel : 23 August 1909
vice-amiral Laurent Marin-Darbel : 9 September 1909
contre-amiral Paul Auvert : 15 February 1911
vice-amiral Paul Auvert : 28 mars 1911
vice-amiral Charles Aubert : 1 February 1912
vice-amiral Pierre Le Bris : 24 January 1913
vice-amiral Louis Pivet : 20 May 1914
vice-amiral Charles Aubert : 7 December 1914
vice-amiral Marie de Fauques de Jonquieres : 2 May 1915
vice-amiral Ferdinand De Bon : 10 March 1916
vice-amiral Pierre Ronarc'h : 17 May 1919
vice-amiral Henri Salaun : 1 February 1920
vice-amiral Maurice Grasset : 1 February 1921
vice-amiral Henri Salaun : 22 July 1924
vice-amiral Louis Violette : 1 January 1928
vice-amiral Georges Durand-Viel : 16 February 1931
vice-amiral François Darlan : 1 January 1937
Amiral de la Flotte François Darlan : 24 June 1939^[4]
contre-amiral Gabriel Auphan : August 1941^[5]
Vice-Amiral d'escadre André Lemonnier : 6 June 1943^[6]
vice-amiral Robert Battet : 31 May 1950
vice-amiral d'escadre Robert Lambert : 18 August 1950
vice-amiral d'escadre Henry Nomy : 26 October 1951
Amiral Henry Nomy: 1 September 1953
amiral Georges Cabanier : 1 July 1960
amiral André Patou : 1 January 1968
amiral André Storelli : 1 May 1970
amiral Marc de Joybert : 1 February 1972
amiral Albert Joire-Noulens : 14 July 1974
amiral Jean-René Lannuzel : 1 August 1976
amiral Yves Leenhardt : 1 August 1982
amiral Bernard Louzeau : 30 January 1987
amiral Alain Coatanéa : 20 November 1990
amiral Jean-Charles Lefebvre : 1 July 1994
amiral Jean-Luc Delaunay : 2 May 1999
amiral Jean-Louis Battet : 1 July 2001
amiral Alain Oudot de Dainville : 15 June 2005
amiral Pierre-François Forissier : 4 February 2008
amiral Bernard Rogel : 12 September 2011
amiral Christophe Prazuck : 13 July 2016

References[]

↑ généralissime had for vocation to assume command of the armies of the North-East, destined to defend the French frontiers in that geographical zone, in case of war.
↑ In title of comparison, the French Army and French Air Force had their combat authority direction responsibility of operations transferred to CEMA ten years earlier in 1961.
↑ On the "Mer et Marine" site "Les Chefs d'Etat-Major de la Marine". http://www.netmarine.net/g/dossiers/emm/index.htm. Retrieved 19 December 2008.
↑ From 26 August 1939 to 6 June 1943, the structure of the La Marine did not include a general staff headquarters (French), however, a general staff headquarters of Maritime Forces (French) had lieu in place, which was the prime sea command office for the duration of the war. Amiral de la Flotte (Admiral of the fleet) Darlan became then the commander-in-chief of French Maritime Forces (French) before being called upon to serve other functions on February 1941 in the France of Vichy. Amiral Darlan then sided with the Allies on November 1942.
↑ On November 11, 1942, Contre-Amrial (Counter-Admiral) Auphan gave orders to the Fleet to scuttle itself, a Military Order which was executed November 27, 1942. The Admiral resigned from his functions on November 18, 1942.
↑ Vice-Amiral d'escadre (Squadron vice-admiral) Lemonier was designated to this post by the French Committee of National Liberation (French), which came after the French National Committee (French) in June 1943, the Exile Government of Free France. Accordingly, the Free French Naval Forces (French) and the French Navy of North Africa (French), under the impulsion of général de Gaulle, Henri Giraud, then French Military and Civilian Commandment-in-Chief (French) and the Major Général of the latter, Amiral (Admiral) Philippe Auboyneau.

External links[]

Marine nationale The functions of the Chef d'état major de la marine on the French Navy site

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[1] généralissime had for vocation to assume command of the armies of the North-East, destined to defend the French frontiers in that geographical zone, in case of war.

[2] In title of comparison, the French Army and French Air Force had their combat authority direction responsibility of operations transferred to CEMA ten years earlier in 1961.

[3] On the "Mer et Marine" site "Les Chefs d'Etat-Major de la Marine". http://www.netmarine.net/g/dossiers/emm/index.htm. Retrieved 19 December 2008.

[4] From 26 August 1939 to 6 June 1943, the structure of the La Marine did not include a general staff headquarters (French), however, a general staff headquarters of Maritime Forces (French) had lieu in place, which was the prime sea command office for the duration of the war. Amiral de la Flotte (Admiral of the fleet) Darlan became then the commander-in-chief of French Maritime Forces (French) before being called upon to serve other functions on February 1941 in the France of Vichy. Amiral Darlan then sided with the Allies on November 1942.

[5] On November 11, 1942, Contre-Amrial (Counter-Admiral) Auphan gave orders to the Fleet to scuttle itself, a Military Order which was executed November 27, 1942. The Admiral resigned from his functions on November 18, 1942.

[6] Vice-Amiral d'escadre (Squadron vice-admiral) Lemonier was designated to this post by the French Committee of National Liberation (French), which came after the French National Committee (French) in June 1943, the Exile Government of Free France. Accordingly, the Free French Naval Forces (French) and the French Navy of North Africa (French), under the impulsion of général de Gaulle, Henri Giraud, then French Military and Civilian Commandment-in-Chief (French) and the Major Général of the latter, Amiral (Admiral) Philippe Auboyneau.

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