Chief of the Hellenic Navy General Staff

Chief of the Hellenic Navy General Staff ; Αρχηγός του Γενικού Επιτελείου Ναυτικού
	Hellenic Navy Coat of Arms
	Incumbent; Vice Admiral Nikolaos Tsounis; since 16 January 2017
	Hellenic Navy General Staff
Abbreviation	Α/ΓΕΝ
Member of	Hellenic Navy
Reports to	Chief of the National Defence General Staff
Seat	Hellenic National Defence General Staff
Formation	13 December 1907
First holder	Georgios A. Kountouriotis

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's COMEDEAST.

List of chiefs

Kingdom of Greece

No.	Chief of the Navy General Staff	Took office	Left office	Time in office
1	Kountouriotis, GeorgiosCaptain Georgios A. Kountouriotis (1851–1908)	13 December 1907[1]	10 July 1908	210 days
2	Sachtouris, AlexandrosRear Admiral Alexandros Sachtouris (1851–1926)	10 July 1908	3 August 1911	3 years, 24 days
3	Ginis, PetrosCaptain Petros Ginis (1861–1935) [lower-alpha 1]	07 January 1911	15 April 1912	1 year, 99 days
4	Kountouriotis, PavlosRear Admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis (1855–1935) [lower-alpha 2]	16 April 1912	16 September 1912	153 days
5	Kountouriotis, PavlosCaptain Matthaios Matthaiopoulos (1870–1921)	16 September 1912	7 April 1914	1 year, 203 days
6	Papachristos, DimitriosRear Admiral Dimitrios Papachristos (1867–1949) [lower-alpha 3]	14 April 1914	16 June 1914	63 days
7	Dousmanis, SofoklisRear Admiral Sofoklis Dousmanis (1868–1952) [lower-alpha 4]	19 June 1914	14 June 1917	2 years, 360 days
8	Kakoulidis, GeorgiosCaptain Georgios Kakoulidis (1871–1946) [lower-alpha 5]	22 June 1917	18 December 1917	179 days
(6)	Papachristos, DimitriosRear Admiral Dimitrios Papachristos (1867–1949)	18 December 1917	22 June 1920	2 years, 187 days
9	Ipitis, IoannisRear Admiral Ioannis Ipitis (1867–1956) [lower-alpha 6]	9 November 1920	26 April 1921	168 days
10	Malikopoulos, KonstantinosRear Admiral Konstantinos Malikopoulos (1872–1945)	29 April 1921	15 December 1921	230 days
(7)	Dousmanis, SofoklisRear Admiral Sofoklis Dousmanis (1868–1952)	15 December 1921	12 October 1922	301 days
11	Gerontas, AgisilaosCaptain Agisilaos Gerontas (1873–1962)	12 October 1922	11 March 1924	1 year, 151 days
12	Gonatas, AnastasiosCaptain Anastasios Gonatas (1877–1957)	11 March 1924	24 March 1924	13 days

Second Hellenic Republic

No.	Chief of the Navy General Staff	Took office	Left office	Time in office
13	Loprestis, VikentiosRear Admiral Vikentios Loprestis (1872–1953)	24 March 1924	8 July 1925	1 year, 106 days
(12)	Gonatas, AnastasiosCaptain Anastasios Gonatas (1877–1957)	8 July 1925	27 February 1926	234 days
14	Louis, ChristosCaptain Christos Louis (1877–1957) [lower-alpha 7]	27 February 1926	7 July 1926	130 days
15	Demestichas, IoannisCaptain Ioannis Demestichas (1882–1960) [lower-alpha 8]	7 July 1926	3 October 1926	88 days
(14)	Louis, ChristosCaptain Christos Louis (1877–1957)	3 October 1926	1 December 1926	59 days
(15)	Demestichas, IoannisCaptain Ioannis Demestichas (1882–1960)	1 December 1926	17 February 1927	78 days
16	Typaldos-Alfonsatos, KonstantinosRear Admiral Konstantinos Typaldos-Alfonsatos (1873–1945) [lower-alpha 9]	17 February 1927	15 July 1927	148 days
(10)	Malikopoulos, KonstantinosRear Admiral Konstantinos Malikopoulos (1872–1945)	15 July 1927	7 December 1928	1 year, 145 days
17	Panas, GeorgiosRear Admiral Georgios Panas (1876–1939)	7 December 1928	18 February 1931	2 years, 73 days
(14)	Louis, ChristosCaptain Christos Louis (1877–1957)	18 February 1931	7 December 1931	292 days
18	Dimoulis, PeriklisRear Admiral Periklis Dimoulis (1880–1945)	7 December 1931	10 December 1932	1 year, 3 days
(15)	Demestichas, IoannisCaptain Ioannis Demestichas (1882–1960)	10 December 1932	6 March 1933	86 days
(14)	Louis, ChristosCaptain Christos Louis (1877–1957)	6 March 1933	9 March 1933	3 days
(18)	Dimoulis, PeriklisRear Admiral Periklis Dimoulis (1880–1945)	9 March 1933	17 August 1933	161 days
19	Kavvadias, EpameinondasCaptain Epameinondas Kavvadias (1886–1965) [lower-alpha 10]	23 August 1933	17 July 1934	328 days
(18)	Dimoulis, PeriklisRear Admiral Periklis Dimoulis (1880–1945)	17 July 1934	3 March 1935	229 days
20	Oikonomou, DimitriosVice Admiral Dimitrios Oikonomou (1883–1957)	3 March 1935	19 December 1936	1 year, 291 days

Kingdom of Greece

#	Name	Rank	From	To	Notes on term and later career
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

Third Hellenic Republic

#	Name	Rank	From	To	Notes on term and later career
52.	Petros Arapakis	Vice Admiral	01.06.1973	08.01.1975	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

Notes

MP for Spetses (1910, 1915), Senator (1932–33)
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)
Senator (1929–35)
Minister for Naval Affairs (1935)
MP and Senator, Governor-General of Thrace
Vice-Minister for Naval Affairs (1950)
Minister for Communications (1945)
1st term; Minister for Aviation and Naval Affairs (1933), Minister for the Interior, Education, and Mercantile Marine (1944)
Minister for Naval Affairs (1922)
Fleet Commander (1941–42), Vice-Minister for Naval Affairs (1942–43), Commander's Cross of the Cross of Valour (1947)

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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. Archived from the original on 9 September 2018. Retrieved 3 September 2016.

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[2] MP for Spetses (1910, 1915), Senator (1932–33)

[3] 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)

[4] Senator (1929–35)

[5] Minister for Naval Affairs (1935)

[6] MP and Senator, Governor-General of Thrace

[7] Vice-Minister for Naval Affairs (1950)

[8] Minister for Communications (1945)

[9] 1st term; Minister for Aviation and Naval Affairs (1933), Minister for the Interior, Education, and Mercantile Marine (1944)

[10] Minister for Naval Affairs (1922)

[11] Fleet Commander (1941–42), Vice-Minister for Naval Affairs (1942–43), Commander's Cross of the Cross of Valour (1947)

[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.