Chief of Defence (Denmark)
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Chief of Defence Coat of Arms
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Standard of the Chief of Defence
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| Ministry of Defence | |
| Member of | Defence Command of Denmark |
| Reports to | Defence Minister of Denmark |
| Formation | 27 May 1950 |
| First holder | Admiral Erhard Jørgen Carl Qvistgaard |
| Website | [1] |
The Chief of Defence of Denmark (Danish: Forsvarschefen), under responsibility of the Defence minister, is the Chief of Defence and commander1 of the Royal Danish Army, the Royal Danish Navy and the Royal Danish Air Force. The Chief of Defence is the military adviser to the Defence minister and head of the Defence Command.
The Chief of Defence is the highest-ranking military officer in Denmark and has the rank of four-star General (or Admiral if from the Navy) (OF-9)2, and supervises roughly 93% of all military spending in Denmark.[1]
The Danish Home Guard and Defence intelligence is directly under the Ministry of Defence, only in times of war will the Home Guard Command be transferred to the Defence Command, and thus come under the authority of the Chief of Defence.
The job is traditionally rotated evenly between the army, navy and air force. This tradition has been abandoned in 2009. There is no fixed length of time associated with the position.
List of Chiefs of Defence
| № | Chief of Defence | Took office | Left office | Time in office | Defence branch | |
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| 1 | Admiral Erhard Jørgen Carl Qvistgaard | 1 October 1950 | 30 September 1962 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Navy | |
| 2 | General Kurt Rudolph Ramberg | 1 October 1962 | 30 November 1972 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Air force | |
| 3 | General Otto Blixenkrone-Møller | 1 December 1972 | 30 April 1977 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Army | |
| 4 | General Knud Jørgensen | 1 May 1977 | 30 September 1984 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Air force | |
| 5 | General Otto Katharus Lind | 1 October 1984 | 30 November 1985 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Army | |
| 6 | Admiral Sven Eigil Thiede | 1 December 1985 | 31 October 1989 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Navy | |
| 7 | General Jørgen Lyng | 1 November 1989 | 31 March 1996 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Army | |
| 8 | Admiral Hans Jørgen Garde [2] |
1 April 1996 | 3 August 1996 † | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Navy | |
| 9 | General Christian Hvidt | 20 August 1996 | 30 September 2002 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Air force | |
| 10 | General Hans Jesper Helsø | 1 October 2002 | 31 July 2008 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Army | |
| 11 | Admiral Tim Sloth Jørgensen | 1 August 2008 | 4 October 2009 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Navy | |
| – | Lieutenant General Bjørn Bisserup (Acting) | 5 October 2009 | 15 November 2009 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Army | |
| 12 | General Knud Bartels | 16 November 2009 | 2 January 2012 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Army | |
| – | Lieutenant General Bjørn Bisserup (Acting) | 2 January 2012 | 20 March 2012 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Army | |
| 13 | General Peter Bartram [3] |
20 March 2012 | Incumbent | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Army |
Notes
1Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II of Denmark is the supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Danish Defence.
2Prince Henrik, Prince consort of Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, holds this rank à la suite.
References
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Died in a plane crash.
- ↑ http://www.fmn.dk/eng/news/Pages/NewChiefofDefense.aspx
