List of defence ministers of Greece
Ministers of Military Affairs, 1899–1946

List of defence ministers of Greece

Section Title: Ministers of Military Affairs, 1899–1946
Table Section Text: None

#	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	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

Sentence(s)

Ioannis Metaxas was the Minister of Military Affairs.

final_sentence: Ioannis Metaxas was the Minister of Military Affairs.