List of defence ministers of Greece

This is a list of Greek war and defence ministers.

List of ministers

Military affairs, 1899–1946

Name	Took office	Left office	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
Nikolaos Theotokis [fr]	8 April 1921	16 May 1922
Nikolaos Stratos	16 May 1922	22 May 1922
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]}	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
Vyron Karapanagiotis [el]	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

#	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
	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
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
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.) Charalambos Potamianos [el]	20 September 1961	4 November 1961
Aristeidis Protopapadakis	4 November 1961	11 June 1963	National Radical Union
Philippos Dragoumis [el]	19 June 1963	28 September 1963
Dimitrios Papanikolopoulos	29 September 1963	18 February 1964
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
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
Tzannis Tzannetakis	23 November 1989	12 February 1990	New Democracy
Theodoros Degiannis	13 February 1990	11 April 1990
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^[1]	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^[2]	14 January 2019	9 July 2019	Independent, previously Chief of the National Defence General Staff
Nikos Panagiotopoulos^[3]	9 July 2019	Incumbent	New Democracy