Chief of the Hellenic Navy General Staff

The Chief of the Hellenic Navy General Staff (Greek: Αρχηγός του Γενικού Επιτελείου Ναυτικού, abbrev. Α/ΓΕΝ) is the head of the Hellenic Navy General Staff and commander of the Hellenic Navy. The position is customarily held by a three-star flag officer (Vice Admiral). As part of Greece's membership in NATO, from 1967 until 1999 the Chief of the HNGS was also commander of NATO COMEDEAST.

List of chiefs[]

#	Name	Rank	From	To	Notes on term and later career
1.	Georgios A. Kountouriotis	Captain	13.12.1907^[1]	10.07.1908
2.	Alexandros Sachtouris	Rear Admiral	10.07.1908	03.08.1911
3.	Petros Ginis	Captain	07.01.1911	15.04.1912	MP for Spetses (1910, 1915), Senator (1932–33)
4.	Pavlos Kountouriotis	Rear Admiral	16.04.1912	16.09.1912	Commander of the Aegean Fleet during the Balkan Wars (1912–13), Commander's Cross of the Cross of Valour (1914), Member of the "Triumvirate of National Defence" (1916–17), Regent (1920), First President of the Second Hellenic Republic (1924–29)
5.	Matthaios Matthaiopoulos	Captain	16.09.1912	07.04.1914
6.	Dimitrios Papachristos	Rear Admiral	14.04.1914	16.06.1914	1st term; Senator (1929–35)
7.	Sofoklis Dousmanis	Rear Admiral	19.06.1914	14.06.1917	1st term; Minister for Naval Affairs (1935)
8.	Georgios Kakoulidis	Captain	22.06.1917	18.12.1917	MP and Senator, Governor-General of Thrace
9.	Dimitrios Papachristos	Rear Admiral	18.12.1917	22.06.1920	2nd term
10.	Ioannis Ipitis	Rear Admiral	09.11.1920	26.04.1921	Vice-Minister for Naval Affairs (1950)
11.	Konstantinos Malikopoulos	Rear Admiral	29.04.1921	15.12.1921
12.	Sofoklis Dousmanis	Rear Admiral	15.12.1921	12.10.1922	2nd term
13.	Agisilaos Gerontas	Captain	12.10.1922	11.03.1924
14.	Anastasios Gonatas	Captain	11.03.1924	24.03.1924	1st term
15.	Vikentios Loprestis	Rear Admiral	24.03.1924	08.07.1925
16.	Anastasios Gonatas	Captain	08.07.1925	27.02.1926	2nd term
17.	Christos Louis	Captain	27.02.1926	07.07.1926	1st term; Minister for Communications (1945)
18.	Ioannis Demestichas	Captain	07.07.1926	03.10.1926	1st term; Minister for Aviation and Naval Affairs (1933), Minister for the Interior, Education, and Mercantile Marine (1944)
19.	Christos Louis	Captain	03.10.1926	01.12.1926	2nd term
20.	Ioannis Demestichas	Captain	01.12.1926	17.02.1927	2nd term
21.	Konstantinos Typaldos-Alfonsatos	Rear Admiral	17.02.1927	15.07.1927	Minister for Naval Affairs (1922)
22.	Konstantinos Malikopoulos	Rear Admiral	15.07.1927	07.12.1928
23.	Georgios Panas	Rear Admiral	07.12.1928	18.02.1931
24.	Christos Louis	Captain	18.02.1931	07.12.1931	3rd term
25.	Periklis Dimoulis	Rear Admiral	07.12.1931	10.12.1932	1st term
26.	Ioannis Demestichas	Captain	10.12.1932	06.03.1933	3rd term
27.	Christos Louis	Captain	06.03.1933	09.03.1933	4th term
28.	Periklis Dimoulis	Rear Admiral	09.03.1933	17.08.1933	2nd term
29.	Epameinondas Kavvadias	Captain	23.08.1933	17.07.1934	1st term; Fleet Commander (1941–42), Vice-Minister for Naval Affairs (1942–43), Commander's Cross of the Cross of Valour (1947)
30.	Periklis Dimoulis	Rear Admiral	17.07.1934	03.03.1935	3rd term
31.	Dimitrios Oikonomou	Vice Admiral	03.03.1935	19.12.1936
32.	Epameinondas Kavvadias	Captain	19.12.1936	12.01.1937	2nd term
33.	Alexandros Sakellariou	Rear Admiral	12.01.1937	13.08.1938	1st term; Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Naval Affairs in the Greek government in exile (1941–42), Commander's Cross of the Cross of Valour (1947), Minister for Supply (1947), Minister for Naval Affairs (1947–48), Minister for National Defence (1951–52)
34.	Epameinondas Kavvadias	Rear Admiral	13.08.1938	17.09.1938	3rd term
35.	Alexandros Sakellariou	Rear Admiral	17.09.1938	20.04.1941	2nd term
36.	Haralambos Delagrammatikas	Rear Admiral	26.04.1941	30.04.1941
37.	Petros Voulgaris	Vice Admiral	03.09.1944	11.04.1945	Prime Minister of Greece and Minister for Aviation, Naval Affairs, Interior, and Foreign Affairs (1945), Commander's Cross of the Cross of Valour (1947)
38.	Grigorios Mezeviris	Vice Admiral	11.04.1945	14.10.1946	1st term
39.	Alfredos Leontopoulos	Rear Admiral	14.10.1946	02.02.1947
40.	Grigorios Mezeviris	Vice Admiral	02.02.1947	20.09.1947	2nd term
41.	Periklis Antonopoulos	Vice Admiral	20.09.1947	17.11.1951
42	Panagiotis Konstas	Rear Admiral	17.11.1951	06.09.1952
43	Pyrros Lappas	Vice Admiral	06.09.1952	13.09.1958
44	Konstantinos Tsatsos	Vice Admiral	13.09.1958	04.12.1959
45.	Georgios Panagiotopoulos	Vice Admiral	4.12.1959	27.11.1961
46.	Dimitrios Kiosses	Vice Admiral	27.11.1961	12.12.1963
47.	Spyridon Avgeris	Vice Admiral	12.12.1963	30.03.1967	Promoted to Chief of the Hellenic National Defence General Staff (1967)
48.	Konstantinos Engolfopoulos	Vice Admiral	30.03.1967	24.04.1967	1st term, dismissed following the establishment of the Regime of the Colonels; Minister for Mercantile Marine (1974)
49.	Ippokratis Dedes	Vice Admiral	24.04.1967	13.12.1967	Appointed by the Regime of the Colonels, dismissed following the failure of the counter-coup of King Constantine II
50.	Stavros Pervainas	Vice Admiral	13.12.1967	18.12.1968	Appointed by the Regime of the Colonels
51.	Konstantinos Margaritis	Vice Admiral	18.12.1968	01.06.1973	Appointed by the Regime of the Colonels
52.	Petros Arapakis	Vice Admiral	01.06.1973	08.01.1975	Appointed by the Regime of the Colonels, retained after the Metapolitefsi
53.	Konstantinos Engolfopoulos	Vice Admiral	08.01.1975	08.01.1976	2nd term
54.	Spyridon Mourkis	Vice Admiral	08.01.1976	16.09.1976
55.	Spyridon Konofaos	Vice Admiral	16.09.1976	05.01.1982
56.	Odysseas Kapetos	Vice Admiral	05.01.1982	23.03.1982
57.	Nikolaos Pappas	Vice Admiral	23.03.1982	22.12.1986	Minister for Mercantile Marine (1989–90)
58.	Leonidas Vasilikopoulos	Vice Admiral	22.12.1986	17.07.1989	Director of the National Intelligence Service (1993–1996)
59.	Evangelos Lagaras	Vice Admiral	17.07.1989	28.02.1992
60.	Iraklis Drikos	Vice Admiral	28.02.1992	17.12.1993
61.	Ioannis Stagas	Vice Admiral	17.12.1993	16.02.1996
62.	Leonidas Paliogiorgos	Vice Admiral	16.02.1996	16.02.1998
63.	Georgios Ioannidis	Vice Admiral	16.02.1998	15.02.2001
64.	Georgios Theodoroulakis	Vice Admiral	16.02.2001	05.03.2002
65.	Antonis Antoniadis	Vice Admiral	05.03.2002	15.02.2005
66.	Dimitrios Gousis	Vice Admiral	15.02.2005	5.02.2008
67.	Georgios Karamalikis	Vice Admiral	05.02.2008	17.02.2010
68.	Dimitrios Elefsiniotis	Vice Admiral	17.02.2010	01.11.2011
69.	Kosmas Christidis	Vice Admiral	01.11.2011	07.03.2013
70.	Evangelos Apostolakis	Vice Admiral	07.03.2013	16.09.2015	Promoted to Admiral and Chief of the Hellenic National Defence General Staff (since 2015)
71.	Georgios Giakoumakis	Vice Admiral	16.09.2015	16.01.2017
72.	Nikolaos Tsounis	Vice Admiral	16.01.2017	incumbent

References[]

↑ Note: Greece officially adopted the Gregorian calendar on 16 February 1923 (which became 1 March). All dates prior to that, unless specifically denoted, are Old Style.

Sources[]

"Διατελέσαντες Αρχηγοί ΓΕΝ" (in Greek). Hellenic Navy. http://www.hellenicnavy.gr/el/organosi/geniko-epiteleio-naftikoy/diatelesantes-arxigoi-gen.html. Retrieved 3 September 2016.

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[1] Note: Greece officially adopted the Gregorian calendar on 16 February 1923 (which became 1 March). All dates prior to that, unless specifically denoted, are Old Style.

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