Álvaro de Lacalle Leloup explained

Honorific Prefix:	General
Álvaro de Lacalle Leloup
Office:	President of the Board of Joint Chiefs of Staff
Term Start:	15 January 1982
Term End:	9 January 1984
Predecessor:	Ignacio Alfaro Arregui
Birth Name:	Álvaro de Lacalle Leloup
Birth Date:	29 October 1918
Birth Place:	Haro, (now La Rioja), Kingdom of Spain
Death Place:	Madrid, Spain
Allegiance:
Branch:	(Wehrmacht)
Rank:	Lieutenant general
Battles:	Spanish Civil War World War II Eastern Front

Álvaro de Lacalle Leloup (29 October 1918 – 1 September 2004) was a Spanish military officer who served as President of the Board of Joint Chiefs of Staff Spanish; Castilian: (Junta de Jefes de Estado Mayor, JUJEM) between 1982 and 1984, i.e., chief of staff of the Spanish Armed Forces at the time.^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}

During the Spanish Civil War, Lacalle was a Carlist Requeté combatant for the Nationalist faction. During World War II, he was one of the volunteers of the so-called Blue Division (Spanish; Castilian: División Azul, German: Blaue Division), or the 250th Infantry Division of the Wehrmacht; the division was sent to the Eastern Front by the Francoist regime to fight alongside Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union.^[6]

Awards

• Grand Cross (with White Decoration) of Naval Merit (1962)^[7]
• Grand Cross of the Royal and Military Order of Saint Hermenegild (1975)^[8]
• Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic (1984)^[9]
• Grand Cross of the Military Order of St. Gregory the Great (1984)

Notes and References

1. Book: ABC. 12 September 2004. Álvaro de Lacalle Leloup. Madrid. 49.
2. Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado. Boletín Oficial del Estado. 14. 16 January 1982. es. Real Decreto 49/1982, de 15 de enero, por el que se nombra Presidente de la Junta de Jefes de Estado Mayor al Teniente General del Ejército de Tierra don Alvaro de Lacalle Leloup. 0212-033X. 1014.
3. Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado. Boletín Oficial del Estado. 8. 10 January 1984. es. Real Decreto 39/1984, de 9 de enero, por el que se dispone el cese como Presidente de la Junta de Jefes de Estado Mayor del Teniente General del Ejército don Alvaro de Lacalle Leloup. 0212-033X. 577.
4. News: The World in Summary; Spain Pulls Off Military Shakeup. Milt Freudenheim and William C. Rhoden. New York Times. 17 January 1982. 28 January 2023.
5. News: IN SPAIN, THE COUP CLOUDS DRIFT AWAY. John Darnton. New York Times. 24 January 1984. 28 January 2023.
6. Book: El general Lacalle, economista y culto. Diario 16. Spanish. 16 January 1982.
7. Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado. Boletín Oficial del Estado. 235. 1 October 1962. es. Decreto 2396/1962, de 1 de octubre, por el que se concede la Gran Cruz del Mérito Naval, con distintivo blanco, a don Alvaro de Lacalle Leloup. 0212-033X. 13818.
8. Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado. Boletín Oficial del Estado. 217. 10 September 1975. es. Decreto 2143/1975, de 6 de agosto, por el que se concede la Gran Cruz de la Real y Militar Orden de San Hermenegildo al General de Brigada de Artillería don Alvaro de Lacalle Leloup. 0212-033X. 19196–19197.
9. Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado. Boletín Oficial del Estado. 13. 16 January 1984. es. Real Decreto 70/1984, de 11 de enero, por el que se concede la Gran Cruz de la Orden de Isabel la Católica a don Alvaro de Lacalle Leloup. 0212-033X. 1114.