# 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 | 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 | 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 | 14 January 2019 | 9 July 2019 | Independent, previously Chief of the National Defence General Staff |
| Nikos Panagiotopoulos | 9 July 2019 | Incumbent | New Democracy |