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Chief of Defence (Denmark)

Chief of Defence (Denmark)

Highest-ranking professional military officer in the Danish Armed Forces

The Chief of Defence of Denmark (Danish: Forsvarschefen), acting under the statutory responsibility of the Minister of Defence, is the chief of defence and commander of the Royal Danish Army, the Royal Danish Navy and the Royal Danish Air Force.[1] The Chief of Defence is the principal military adviser to the Minister of Defence and the head of the Defence Command.

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The Chief of Defence is the highest-ranking military officer on active duty in the Danish Armed Forces 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.[citation needed]

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 was traditionally rotated evenly between the army, navy and air force. This tradition was abandoned in 2012.[3] There is no fixed length of time associated with the position, the contract however currently has to be renewed every 5 years.[4]

List of officeholders

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Timeline

Flemming LentferBjørn BisserupPeter BartramKnud BartelsTim Sloth JørgensenHans Jesper HelsøChristian HvidtHans Jørgen GardeJørgen LyngSven Eigil ThiedeOtto K. LindKnud JørgensenOtto Blixenkrone-MøllerKurt RambergErhard J.C. Qvistgaard

Notes

  1. Died in a plane crash.

References

  1. [1]
    Frederiksen 2017.
  2. [2]
    Defence Command Denmark 2017.
  3. [3]
    Halskov, Lars [in Danish]; Svendsen, Jacob (28 January 2012). "Minister ændrer fundamentalt på udvælgelsen af forsvarschef". Politiken (in Danish). Archived from the original on 28 January 2012. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
  4. [4]
    /ritzau/ 2016a.
  5. [5]
    Balsved 2013.
  6. [6]
    Pontoppidan & Teisen 1984, p. 445.
  7. [7]
    Pontoppidan & Teisen 1984, p. 447.
  8. [8]
    Andersen 1996.
  9. [9]
    /ritzau/ 2009.
  10. [10]
    Kongehuset 2012.
  11. [11]
    Ministry of Defence 2012.
  12. [12]
    /ritzau/ 2016b.
  13. [13]
    Therkildsen & Redder 2016.
  14. [14]
    /ritzau/ 2020.
  15. [15]
    "Forsvarsministeren hjemsender forsvarschefen". Forsvaret (in Danish). 3 April 2024. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
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