This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (September 2017)
This list is for people who held general officer rank (including, after 1946, Brigadier General) in the regular Hellenic Army since 1828. It does not include the numerous generals of the irregular troops appointed during the Greek War of Independence, unless they also received a general rank in the post-war regular army. This list is not complete – please add to it if you know of any omissions.
British military officer, commander-in-chief of the Greek forces during the last stages of the Greek War of Independence, Secretary of Military Affairs (1835) Senator
Lt. General as Crown Prince and Inspector-General of the Army until 1913, commander-in-chief of the Greek Army in the Greco-Turkish War of 1897 and the Balkan Wars. General and soon after Field Marshal as King of Greece (1913–17, 1920–22)
As a colonel, one of the leaders of the 11 September 1922 Revolution. Prime Minister of the Revolutionary Government (1922–24), Senator and President of the Senate, Minister for Public Works. Awarded the rank of Lt. General by the National Assembly in 1924.
Cypriot-born officer, leader of the royalist Organization X, leader of EOKA against British rule in Cyprus (1955–59), awarded the rank of General in retirement by the Greek Parliament. Held active rank as commander of the Cypriot National Guard (1964–67), leader of EOKA B against Archbishop Makarios (1967–74)
Klepht leader, he served under the British in the 1800s. One of the main Greek leaders in the Greek War of Independence, as general-in-chief of the Morea. After Independence, he was a political opponent of the regency during King Otto's minority and imprisoned, narrowly escaping execution.
Fighter in the Macedonian Struggle, Commander of Kydoniai Division (1919–20), II and III Corps (1923–25), Prime Minister in March 1933 emergency cabinet
Minister of Military Affairs (1935), Chief of the Army General Staff (1936–40), Commander-in-Chief of the Army (1940–41, 1949–50), Chief of the National Defense General Staff (1950–51), Prime Minister (1952–55)
Commander of I Corps (1940), W. Macedonia Army Section and Epirus Army Section (1940–41), Mayor of Athens (1946–50), Minister of National Defence (1952), Minister for Northern Greece (1961)
As Colonel, one of the leaders of the 11 September 1922 Revolution. Prime Minister (1945, 1950, 195–152). Awarded the rank of Lt. General by the National Assembly in 1924.
Chief of staff of the Army of Asia Minor (1919–20), Commander of the Army of the Evros (1922–23), Prime Minister (1925–26) and President (1926) as dictator
Director-General of the Ministry of Military Affairs (1930–34), Deputy Chief of the Army General Staff (1934–35), Commander of the Supreme War School (1935–36).
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This list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items September 2017 This list is for people who held general officer rank including after 1946 Brigadier General in the regular Hellenic Army since 1828 It does not include the numerous generals of the irregular troops appointed during the Greek War of Independence unless they also received a general rank in the post war regular army This list is not complete please add to it if you know of any omissions Contents Top 0 9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZA editRank Name Born Died NotesLieutenant General Prince Andrew 1882 1944 Commander of II Corps 1921 22 V Corps 1922 General King Alexander 1893 1920 Held the rank of General as King of Greece 1917 20 Lieutenant General Panagiotis Anagnostopoulos 1918 Chief of the Central Intelligence Service 1965 General Odysseas Angelis 1912 1987 Chief of the Armed Forces 1967 73 Vice President of the Republic 1973 General Dionysios Arbouzis 1912 1987 Commander of the Greek Battalion in Korea and ELDYK Chief of the Armed Forces 1974 76 B editRank Name Born Died NotesLieutenant General Konstantinos Bakopoulos 1889 1950 Commander of Eastern Macedonia Army Section 1941 Major General Georgios Bakos 1892 1946 Commander of 3rd Division 1940 41 Defence Minister in the collaborationist government 1941 43 Major General Kostas Botsaris 1792 1853 Fighter in the Greek War of Independence SenatorC editRank Name Born Died NotesLieutenant General Anastasios Charalambis 1862 1949 Chief of the Army Staff Service 1917 Commander of II Corps 1918 Prime Minister Minister of Military Affairs 1922 Lieutenant General Aristeidis Chasapidis 1875 1941 Commander of 10th amp 8th Divisions II Corps Chief of the Army General Staff 1935 36 Major General Nikolaos Christodoulou 1863 1924General Richard Church 1784 1873 British military officer commander in chief of the Greek forces during the last stages of the Greek War of Independence Secretary of Military Affairs 1835 SenatorField Marshal King Constantine I 1868 1923 Lt General as Crown Prince and Inspector General of the Army until 1913 commander in chief of the Greek Army in the Greco Turkish War of 1897 and the Balkan Wars General and soon after Field Marshal as King of Greece 1913 17 1920 22 Field Marshal King Constantine II 1940 Held the rank of Field Marshal as King of Greece 1964 73 D editRank Name Born Died NotesLieutenant General Konstantinos Damianos 1853 1915 Commander of 3rd Division 1911 13 IV Corps 1914 15 Lieutenant General Panagiotis Danglis 1853 1924 Chief of the Army General Staff 1912 Commander of V Corps 1913 14 member of the Triumvirate of National Defence leader of the Liberal PartyGeneral Ioannis Davos 1918 2008 Commander of III Corps 1973 74 Chief of the Army General Staff 1974 76 and the Armed Forces Command 1976 80 Lieutenant General Nikolaos Delagrammatikas 1853 1938 Commander of 6th and 8th Divisions 1912 13 Lieutenant General Panagiotis Demestichas 1885 1960 Commander of I Corps 1940 1941 V Corps 1940 41 Interior Minister in the collaborationist government 1941 Lieutenant General Dimosthenis Dialetis 1869 1954 Chief of the Greek Gendarmerie 1928 Major General Kimon Digenis 1871 1945 Commander of 13th Division 1920 21 and II Corps 1921 22 Lieutenant General Viktor Dousmanis 1861 1949 Chief of the field staff in the Balkan Wars Chief of the Army General Staff 1914 16 1921 1922 Lieutenant General Nikolaos Douvas 1947 Chief of the Army General Staff 2004 06 Lieutenant General Konstantinos Dovas 1898 1973 Chief of the National Defence General Staff 1954 59 interim Prime Minister 1961 Lieutenant General Markos Drakos 1888 1975 Commander of Epirus Army Section 1941 Lieutenant General Antonis Drosogiannis 1922 2006 Deputy and Alternate Minister of National Defence 1981 86 Minister of Public Order 1986 88 E editRank Name Born Died NotesMajor General Athanasios Exadaktylos 1869 1936 Deputy Chief of the Army Staff Service Chief of Staff of the Interior Army 1921 Lieutenant General Joseph Paul Eydoux French Army general head of the French military mission 1911 14 F editRank Name Born Died NotesLieutenant General Evangelos Florakis 1943 2002 Commander of II Corps 1999 2000 and the Cypriot National Guard 2000 02 Lieutenant General Frangoulis Frangos 1951 Chief of the Army General Staff 2009 11 Minister for National Defence 2012 Lieutenant General Athanasios Frangou 1864 1923 Commander of 1st Division 1920 22 and of the Southern Group August 1922 G editRank Name Born Died NotesLieutenant General Ioannis Gennimatas 1910 1981 Chief of the Army General Staff 1964 65 General King George I 1845 1913 Held the rank of General as King of Greece 1863 1913 Field Marshal King George II 1890 1947 Held the rank of General and from 1939 of Field Marshal as King of Greece 1922 24 1935 47 Lieutenant General Dimitrios Giatzis 1891 1964 Commander of 9th Infantry Division 1945 I Corps 1946 47 First Army 1947 Chief of the Army General Staff 1947 49 Lieutenant General Solon Gikas 1898 1978 Chief of the Army General Staff 1954 56 Minister for Public Works 1958 63 Minister for Public Order 1974 76 General Phaedon Gizikis 1917 1999 Commander of First Army and Military Commander of Athens during the Regime of the Colonels President of the Republic 1973 74 Lieutenant General Stylianos Gonatas 1876 1966 As a colonel one of the leaders of the 11 September 1922 Revolution Prime Minister of the Revolutionary Government 1922 24 Senator and President of the Senate Minister for Public Works Awarded the rank of Lt General by the National Assembly in 1924 General Dimitrios Grapsas 1948 Chief of the Army General Staff 2006 07 Chief of the National Defence General Staff 2007 09 General Agamemnon Gratsios 1922 1993 Chief of the Army General Staff 1976 80 Chief of the National Defence General Staff 1980 82 Major General Neokosmos Grigoriadis 1879 1967General Georgios Grivas 1898 1974 Cypriot born officer leader of the royalist Organization X leader of EOKA against British rule in Cyprus 1955 59 awarded the rank of General in retirement by the Greek Parliament Held active rank as commander of the Cypriot National Guard 1964 67 leader of EOKA B against Archbishop Makarios 1967 74 Lieutenant General Theodoros Grivas 1797 1862H editRank Name Born Died NotesLieutenant General Emmanuel Han 1801 1867Lieutenant General Georgios Hatzianestis 1863 1922 Commander of the Army of Asia Minor May August 1922 Tried and executed as responsible for the Asia Minor Disaster in the Trial of the Six Major General Christos Hatzimichalis 1866 Commander of II Corps 1922 23 Major General Christodoulos Hatzipetros 1798 1869 Fighter in the Greek War of Independence aide de camp to Kings Otto and George IMajor General Christos Hatzipetros 1873 1945I editRank Name Born Died NotesMajor General Dimitrios Ioannidis 1923 2010 One of the leaders of the Regime of the Colonels head of the Greek Military Police 1967 73 De facto dictator from November 1973 until the junta s overthrow in August 1974 when he was forcibly retired Tried and convicted of high treason to life imprisonment Lieutenant General Dimitrios Ioannou 1861 1926 Commander of the Archipelago Division 1916 18 I Corps 1918 19 Smyrna Army Corps 1919 20 K editRank Name Born Died NotesLieutenant General Stylianos Kalfelis 1950 Inspector General of the Army 2006 09 Lieutenant General Konstantinos Kallaris 1858 1940 Commander of the 2nd Division 1911 13 I Corps 1914 Minister of Military Affairs 1916 Major General Dimitrios Kallergis 1803 1867 Fighter in the Greek War of Independence one of the leaders of the 3 September 1843 Revolution Minister for Military Affairs 1853 55 Lieutenant General Andreas Kallinskis Roidis 1868Lieutenant General Spyridon Karaiskakis 1826 1899 Minister for Military Affairs 1875 76 1878 1880 1882 MPLieutenant General Vasileios Kardamakis 1900 1971 Chief of the Army General Staff 1959 62 Major General Georgios Katechakis 1881 1939 MP and Senator Minister for Military Affairs 1924 1930 32 Governor General in Thrace 1922 23 and Crete 1928 30 Lieutenant General Dimitrios Katheniotis 1882 1947 Chief of the Army General Staff 1933 35 Lieutenant General Charalambos Katsimitros 1886 1962 Commander of the 8th Division 1938 41 Minister of Labour and Agriculture in the collaborationist government 1941 Major General Pafsanias Katsotas 1896 1991 Commander of I Greek Brigade at El Alamein MP and Minister in several portfolios Mayor of Athens 1954 59 Major General Kleomenis Kleomenous 1852Major General Miltiadis Koimisis 1878 1935Major General Gennaios Kolokotronis 1805 1868 Fighter in the Greek War of Independence aide de camp of King Otto and Prime Minister 1862 Field Marshal Theodoros Kolokotronis 1770 1843 Klepht leader he served under the British in the 1800s One of the main Greek leaders in the Greek War of Independence as general in chief of the Morea After Independence he was a political opponent of the regency during King Otto s minority and imprisoned narrowly escaping execution Lieutenant General Georgios Kondylis 1878 1936 Suppressed the royalist revolt of 1923 overthrew the dictatorship of Theodoros Pangalos in 1926 suppressed the March 1935 Venizelist coup attempt MP and Minister of Military Affairs 1924 1926 1932 33 1933 35 Prime Minister 1926 1935 Abolished the Republic on 10 October 1935 restoring the Greek monarchyLieutenant General Alexandros Kontoulis 1858 1933 Commander of I Corps 1921 22 Ambassador to AlbaniaLieutenant General Aristotelis Korakas 1858 Commander of V III Corps 1917 18 Head of Royal Military Household 1918 20 Lieutenant General Georgios Kosmas 1884 1964 Commander of IV V I Corps 1940 41 Governor General in Thrace 1947 48 Chief of the Army General Staff 1949 51 General Michail Kostarakos 1956 Chief of the National Defence General Staff 2011 2015 Lieutenant General Georgios Koumanakos 1913 2003Lieutenant General Alexandros Kontoulis 1858 1933 Commander of I Corps in the Asia Minor Campaign Ambassador to AlbaniaLieutenant General Konstantinos Koumoundouros 1846 1924 MP Minister for Naval Affairs 1890 92 Minister of Military Affairs 1899 M editRank Name Born Died NotesMajor General Nikolaos Makris 1829 1911 Chief of the Gendarmerie Commander of 1st Division 1897 Major General Ioannis Mamouris 1797 1867 Fighter in the War of IndependenceLieutenant General Konstantinos Manetas 1879 1960 Chief of the Army General Staff 1931 MP and ministerLieutenant General Theodoros Manetas 1881 1947 Chief of the Army General Staff 1931 33 MP and ministerLieutenant General Christos Manolas 1959 Chief of the Army General Staff 2014 Lieutenant General Emmanouil Manousogiannakis 1853 1916 Commander of 1st Division in the Balkan Wars II Corps thereafterMajor General Manolis Mantakas 1891 1968 Leader of the leftist Cretan Resistance and PEEA member in World War IILieutenant General Dimitrios Matthaiopoulos 1861 1923 Commander of the 5th and 8th Divisions in the Balkan WarsAntonios Mavromichalis 1792 1873 Fighter in the War of IndependenceLieutenant General Alexandros Mazarakis Ainian 1874 1943 Chief of the Army General Staff 1924 25 1926 27 1929 31 ministerLieutenant General Konstantinos Mazarakis Ainian 1869 1949 Fighter in the Macedonian Struggle Commander of Xanthi Division in the Asia Minor CampaignLieutenant General Vasileios Melas 1879 1956 Commander of Cavalry Division in the Asia Minor CampaignLieutenant General Dimitrios Meletopoulos 1796 1858 Fighter in the War of IndependenceMajor General Alexandros Merentitis 1880 1964 Chief of the Army General Staff 1928 29 General Director of the Aviation Ministry 1930 34 MinisterLieutenant General Ioannis Metaxas 1871 1941 Chief of the Army General Staff 1915 leading figure of the National Schism Prime Minister and dictator of the 4th of August Regime 1936 41 Lieutenant General Konstantinos Miliotis Komninos 1869 1949 Commander of 6th Division in the Balkan Wars and the Army of Asia Minor in the Asia Minor CampaignLieutenant General Konstantinos Moschopoulos 1854 1942 Commander of 4th Division and various divisional groups in the Balkan Wars III Corps Chief of the Army General Staff 1916 N editRank Name Born Died NotesLieutenant General Konstantinos Nider 1865 1942 Fighter in the Macedonian Struggle Commander of 1st Division in the Macedonian front of the Army of Occupation and the Army of Thrace in the Asia Minor CampaignO editRank Name Born Died NotesLieutenant General Alexandros Othonaios 1879 1970 Fighter in the Macedonian Struggle Commander of Kydoniai Division 1919 20 II and III Corps 1923 25 Prime Minister in March 1933 emergency cabinetP editRank Name Born Died NotesLieutenant General Konstantinos Pallis 1871 1941 Chief of Staff of Army of Asia Minor 1920 22 Chief of Army General Staff 1940 41 Lieutenant General Dimitrios Papadopoulos 1889 1983 Inspector of Artillery 1938 40 Commander of II Corps 1940 41 Field Marshal Alexandros Papagos 1883 1955 Minister of Military Affairs 1935 Chief of the Army General Staff 1936 40 Commander in Chief of the Army 1940 41 1949 50 Chief of the National Defense General Staff 1950 51 Prime Minister 1952 55 Lieutenant General Leonidas Papagos 1844Lieutenant General Anastasios Papoulas 1857 1935 Commander of the Army of Asia Minor 1920 22 Lieutenant General Leonidas Paraskevopoulos 1860 1936 Commander of I Corps 1917 18 Commander in Chief of the Army 1918 20 SenatorField Marshal King Paul I 1901 1964Brigadier General Stylianos Pattakos 1912 2016 One of the leaders of the 1967 coup Interior Minister 1967 71 1973 Deputy Prime Minister 1967 73 Major General Christoforos Perraivos 1773 1863 Fighter in the Greek War of IndependenceLieutenant General Periklis Pierrakos Mavromichalis 1863 1938 Olympic medallist 1986 Interior Minister 1922 23 Minister for Military Affairs 1924 SenatorLieutenant General Ioannis Pitsikas 1881 1975 Commander of I Corps 1940 W Macedonia Army Section and Epirus Army Section 1940 41 Mayor of Athens 1946 50 Minister of National Defence 1952 Minister for Northern Greece 1961 Lieutenant General Nikolaos Plastiras 1883 1953 As Colonel one of the leaders of the 11 September 1922 Revolution Prime Minister 1945 1950 195 152 Awarded the rank of Lt General by the National Assembly in 1924 Lieutenant General Andreas Platis 1865 Commander of 7th Division 1921 22 Smyrna Superior Military Command 1922 Lieutenant General Georgios Polymenakos 1859 1942 Commander of III Corps 1921 Northern Group of Divisions 1921 22 Lieutenant General Theodoros Pangalos 1878 1952 Chief of staff of the Army of Asia Minor 1919 20 Commander of the Army of the Evros 1922 23 Prime Minister 1925 26 and President 1926 as dictatorLieutenant General Achilleas Protosyngellos 1879 1943 Director General of the Ministry of Military Affairs 1930 34 Deputy Chief of the Army General Staff 1934 35 Commander of the Supreme War School 1935 36 S editRank Name Born Died NotesLieutenant General Konstantinos Sapountzakis 1846 1931 Chief of the Army General Staff 1906 09 commander of the Army of Epirus 1912 13 Lieutenant General Vasileios Sapountzakis 1811 1901 Inspector General of the Army 1878 Minister of Military AffairsMajor General Ptolemaios Sarigiannis 1882 1958 Chief of the Army General Staff 1925 26 Major General Chrysanthos Sisinis 1857Major General Dimitrios Sisinis 1861Major General Ioannis Sismanis 1859Lieutenant General Konstantinos Skarlatos 1872 1969Commander General Colonel Nikolaos G Skarvelis 1821 1858 Fighter in the Greek War of Independence Commander of the Athens Infantry in the 3 September 1843 Revolution Lieutenant General Konstantinos Smolenskis 1842 1915 Commander of 1st Division 1897 Minister of Military Affairs 1897 1903 04 Lieutenant General Napoleon Sotilis 1860 1953 Deputy Chief of Army General Staff 1912 Commander of 7th Division 1912 15 V amp II Corps 1915 16 Major General Spyridon Sotiropoulos 1859Lieutenant General Petros Soumilas 1861 1955 Commander of 12th amp 10th Divisions 1920 22 III Corps 1922 Lieutenant General Grigorios Spandidakis 1909 1996 Chief of the Army General Staff 1965 67 Deputy PM and Minister of National Defence 1967 Lieutenant General Panagiotis Spiliotopoulos 1891 1962 Chief of the Army General Staff 1946 47 Minister for National Defence 1951 Lieutenant General Spyromilios 1800 1880 Fighter in the War of Independence Minister of Military Affairs 1850 53 1859 1862 1867 68 Lieutenant General Georgios Stanotas 1888 1965 Commander of the Cavalry Division 1939 41 Peloponnese Mil Command 1947 48 Major General Xenophon Stratigos 1869 1927 Deputy Chief of Army General Staff 1916 17 1920 21 Major General Ioannis Stratos 1793 1848 Fighter in the War of Independence Major General in the Royal PhalanxT editRank Name Born Died NotesMajor General Nikos Toskas 1952 Deputy Minister for National Defence 2015 Alternate Minister of Citizen Protection 2015 Lieutenant General Nikolaos Trikoupis 1868 1956 Commander of 3rd Division 1917 18 1921 II Corps 1921 I Corps 1921 22 Lieutenant General Ioannis Trilivas 1868 Commander of 5th Division 1921 22 IV Corps 1927 Lieutenant General Thrasyvoulos Tsakalotos 1897 1989 Commander of I and II Corps 1948 49 Chief of the Army General Staff 1951 52 Major General Ioannis Tsangaridis 1887 1939Lieutenant General Athanasios Tselios 1956 Chief of the Army General Staff 2013 14 Lieutenant General Charalambos Tseroulis 1879 1929 Commander of Archipelago Division 1920 IV Corps 1922 23 Lieutenant General Efthymios Tsimikalis 1879 1943 Commander of Crete Division 1920 21 10th Division 1922 23 IV Corps 1923 25 Major General Nikolaos Tsipouras 1880Lieutenant General Vlasios Tsirogiannis 1872 1928 Commander of 3rd amp 2nd Division III Corps 1922 28 Major General Christos Tsolakopoulos 1868 1923 Posthumous honorary promotionLieutenant General Georgios Tsolakoglou 1886 1948 Commander of III Corps and W Macedonia Army Section 1940 41 Collaborationist Prime Minister during the Occupation 1941 43 Lieutenant General Georgios Tsontos 1871 1942V editRank Name Born Died NotesMajor General Michalis Vardanis 1936 2014Major General Timoleon Vassos 1836 1929Lieutenant General Konstantinos Ventiris 1892 1960 Chief of the Army General Staff 1944 1947 Lieutenant General Etienne de Villaret French Army general head of the French military mission 1914 General Alexakis Vlachopoulos 1780 1865 Fighter in the War of Independence Minister of Military Affairs 1841 1843 Member of Parliament 1859 Lieutenant General Aristotelis Vlachopoulos 1866 1960 Chief of the Army General Staff 1920 21 Commander of IV Corps 1922 Lieutenant General Konstantinos Vlachopoulos 1789 1868 Fighter in the War of Independence Commander of the Hellenic GendarmerieLieutenant General Nikolaos Vlachopoulos 1868 1957 Chief of the Army General Staff 1922 24 1927 28 Lieutenant General Nikolaos Vorvolakos 1931 2014 Chief of the Cypriot National Guard 1993 98 Lieutenant General Vasileios Vrachnos 1887 1971 Commander of 1st Division 1940 Y editRank Name Born Died NotesGeneral Demetrios Ypsilantis 1793 1832Z editRank Name Born Died NotesLieutenant General Nikolaos Zafeiriou 1871 1947 Commander of 1st Division 1919 20 3rd Division II III and V Corps 1923 1926 General Dimitrios Zagorianakos 1918 1977 Chief of the Army Command 1972 73 and the Armed Forces Command 1973 Major General Nikolaos Zervas 1800 1869 Fighter in the Greek War of IndependenceMajor General Ioannis Zisis 1941 Commander of Evros Brigade 1941 General Georgios Zoitakis 1910 1996 Commander of III Corps 1966 67 Regent 1967 1972 Lieutenant General Emmanouil Zymvrakakis 1861 1928Lieutenant General Emmanouil Zymvrakakis 1856 1931Lieutenant General Epameinondas Zymvrakakis 1863 1922 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title List of Hellenic Army generals amp oldid 1158533941, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
