Post: | Minister |
Body: | Defence |
Insignia: | Escudo de España (mazonado).svg |
Insigniacaption: | National Emblem |
Incumbent: | Margarita Robles |
Incumbentsince: | 7 June 2018 |
Department: | Ministry of Defence |
Style: | Mr./Ms. Minister (informal) The Most Excellent (formal) |
Status: | Head of a ministry |
Abbreviation: | MINISDEF |
Member Of: | Council of Ministers National Security Council National Defence Council |
Reports To: | Prime Minister |
Residence: | Ministry of Defense HQ, 11th floor |
Seat: | Ministry of Defense Headquarters Madrid |
Nominator: | Prime Minister |
Appointer: | Monarch |
Appointer Qualified: | countersigned by the Prime Minister |
Termlength: | No term fixed |
Precursor: | Minister of War Minister of the Navy Minister of the Air |
Formation: | 17 May 1937 |
The minister of defence is the highest authority of Spain's Ministry of Defence, which is in charge of the preparation, development and execution of the defense policy determined by its government, as well as the management of the Military Administration.
See also: Second Spanish Republic.
Portrait | Name | Term of office | Political party | Government | |||||
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Took office | Left office | Time in office | |||||||
Minister of National Defence | |||||||||
bgcolor= | 1 | Indalecio Prieto | 17 May 1937 | 5 April 1938 | PSOE | Negrín I | |||
bgcolor= | 2 | Juan Negrín | 5 April 1938 | 6 March 1939 | PSOE | Negrín II |
See also: Francoist Spain.
Portrait | Name | Term of office | Political party | Government | |||||
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Took office | Left office | Time in office | |||||||
Minister of National Defence | |||||||||
bgcolor= | 1 | Fidel Dávila Arrondo | 31 January 1938 | 9 August 1939 | Military | Franco I | [1] [2] | ||
Split into Minister of the Army, Minister of the Navy and Minister of the Air |
Portrait | Name | Term of office | Political party | Government | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Took office | Left office | Time in office | ||||||||
Minister of Defence | ||||||||||
Reign of Juan Carlos I (1975–2014) | ||||||||||
bgcolor= | 1 | Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado | 4 July 1977 | 5 April 1979 | Military | Suárez II | [3] | |||
bgcolor= | 2 | Agustín Rodríguez Sahagún | 6 April 1979 | 27 February 1981 | UCD | Suárez III | [4] | |||
bgcolor= | 3 | Alberto Oliart | 26 February 1981 | 3 December 1982 | UCD | Calvo-Sotelo | [5] | |||
bgcolor= | 4 | Narcís Serra | 3 December 1982 | 12 March 1991 | PSOE | González I–II–III | [6] [7] [8] | |||
bgcolor= | 5 | Julián García Vargas | 12 March 1991 | 3 July 1995 | PSOE | González III–IV | [9] [10] | |||
bgcolor= | 6 | Gustavo Suárez Pertierra | 3 July 1995 | 5 May 1996 | PSOE | González IV | [11] | |||
bgcolor= | 7 | Eduardo Serra Rexach | 5 May 1996 | 27 April 2000 | Independent | Aznar I | [12] | |||
bgcolor= | 8 | Federico Trillo | 28 April 2000 | 18 April 2004 | PP | Aznar II | [13] | |||
bgcolor= | 9 | José Bono | 18 April 2004 | 7 April 2006 | PSOE | Zapatero I | [14] | |||
bgcolor= | 10 | José Antonio Alonso | 7 April 2006 | 14 April 2008 | PSOE | Zapatero I | [15] | |||
bgcolor= | 11 | Carme Chacón | 14 April 2008 | 22 December 2011 | PSOE | Zapatero II | [16] | |||
bgcolor= | 12 | Pedro Morenés | 22 December 2011 | 19 June 2014 | Independent | Rajoy I | [17] [18] | |||
Reign of Felipe VI (2014–present) | ||||||||||
bgcolor= | 12 | Pedro Morenés | 19 June 2014 | 4 November 2016 | Independent | Rajoy I | ||||
bgcolor= | 13 | María Dolores de Cospedal | 4 November 2016 | 1 June 2018 | PP | Rajoy II | [19] | |||
bgcolor= | 14 | Margarita Robles | 7 June 2018 | Incumbent | Independent | Sánchez I–II–III | [20] [21] [22] |