Chief of the Romanian General Staff

Chief of Romanian General Staff Şeful Statului Major General
Coat of arms of the General Staf
Incumbent Genaral-Locotenent Ştefan Dănilă since 1 January 2011
Appointer	Traian Băsescu as President of Romania
Term length	four years, can be extended up to five years
Inaugural holder	Grigore Gărdescu
Formation	12 November 1859
Website	http://www.mapn.ro/smg/

The Chief of General Staff (Romanian: Şeful Statului Major General) is the highest military authority in the Romanian Armed Forces. He is appointed by the President of Romania, at the National Defense Minister’s proposal (with the approval of the Prime Minister) on a four year period, with the possibility of one year extension. The Deputy Chief of General Staff or one of the Chiefs of the Services can be appointed in this position.

According to Law no. 346 from July 21, 2006 (art. 12), the General Staff provides for:

• force command;
• organization;
• planning and making operational;
• gradual increase of readiness levels;
• RAF’s mobilization;
• conduct of joint operations;
• troops’ training;
• basic and specialty training of the active-duty and reserve military personnel;
• military personnel individual career management;
• armaments planning;
• standardization in the military field;
• implementation of the C4ISR, logistic and infrastructure system;
• conduct of the international military relations;
• religious assistance in the MoND;
• signing technical agreements with other states armed forces;
• promotion of the military culture and civil education values.

Identification flag of the Romanian General Staff (reverse and obverse)

The Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee is established at the level of the General Staff. The Committee is a deliberative structure, having a consultative role. The Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee meets to discuss important topics with regard to the Romanian Armed Forces’ activity, usually quarterly or whenever necessary.

The Chief of General Staff is also the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee.

The Gallery of the Chiefs of General Staff consists of 48 Flag and Commissioned Officers in the 1859-2006 timeframe.

List of the Chiefs of the General Staff

No.	Rank	Name	Term start	Term end
1	Colonel	Grigore Gărdescu	8 January 1860	29 January 1860
2	Maior	Istratie Sămăşescu	29 January	30 May 1860
3	General	Ion Emanuel Florescui	30 May 1860	30 August 1860
4	General	Ion Emanuel Florescuii	21 April 1864	1 May 1866
5	Colonel	Gheorghe Slăniceanui	27 April 1877	18 August 1877
6	Colonel	Constantin Barozzii	18 August 1877	20 October 1877
7	General	Ştefan Fălcoianui	20 October 1877	1878
8	Colonel	Gheorghe Slăniceanuii	1878	22 February 1879
9	General	Alexandru Cernat	1881	1882
10	Colonel	Gheorghe Slăniceanuiii	1882	1883
11	General	Ştefan Fălcoianuii	15 April 1883	23 May 1884
12	Colonel	Nicolae Dona	23 May 1884	13 January 1886
13	General	Ştefan Fălcoianuiii	13 January 1886	18 June 1894
14	General	Iacob Lahovary	1 October 1894	1 October 1895
15	Colonel	Constantin Barozziii	1 October 1895	1 October 1898
16	General	Constantin Poenaru	1 October 1898	1 April 1901
17	General de brigadă	Alexandru Cărcăleteanu	1 April 1901	1 April 1904
18	General de brigadă	Nicolae Tătărăscu	1 April 1904	1 April 1907
19	General	Grigore C. Crăiniceanu	1 April 1907	1 November 1909
20	General Adjutant	Ion Istrati	1 November 1909	31 March 1911
21	General de Divizie	Vasile Zottui	31 March 1911	18 November 1911
22	General	Alexandru Averescu	18 November 1911	2 December 1913
23	General	Constantin Christescui	2 December 1913	1 April 1914
24	General de Divizie	Vasile Zottuii	1 April 1914	25 October 1916
25	General de brigadă	Dumitru Iliescu	25 October	5 December 1916
26	General de Divizie Adjutant	Constantin Prezani	5 December 1916	1 April 1918
27	General	Constantin Christescuii	1 April 1918	28 October 1918
28	General de Divizie Adjutant	Constantin Prezanii	28 October 1918	20 March 1920
29	General	Constantin Christescuiii	1 April 1920	8 May 1923
30	General de brigadă	Alexandru Gorski	8 May 1923	1 October 1923
31	General de Divizie	Alexandru Lupescu	1 October 1923	21 June 1927
32	General	Nicolae Samsonovicii	21 June 1927	11 August 1932
33	General de Divizie	Constantin Lăzărescu	11 August 1932	31 November 1933
34	General	Ion Antonescu	1 December 1933	11 December 1934
35	General	Nicolae Samsonoviciii	11 December 1934	1 February 1937
36	General de Divizie	Ion Sichitiu	1 February 1937	1 November 1937
37	General de Divizie	Ştefan Gh. Ionescu	1 November 1937	1 February 1939
38	General de Divizie Adjutant	Florea Ţenescu	1 February 1939	23 August 1940
39	General de Armată Adjutant	Gheorghe Mihaili	23 August 1940	6 September 1940
40	General de Brigadă	Alexandru Ioaniţiu	6 September 1940	17 September 1941
41	General de Corp de Armată Adjutant	Iosif Iacobici	22 September 1941	20 January 1942
42	General de Corp de Armată	Ilie Şteflea	20 January 1942	23 August 1944
43	General de Armată Adjutant	Gheorghe Mihailii	23 August 1944	12 October 1944
44	General de Corp de Armată Adjutant	Nicolae Rădescu	15 October 1944	6 December 1944
45	General de Corp de Armată	Constantin Sănătescu	11 December 1944	20 June 1945
46	General de Corp de Armată	Costin Ionaşcu	20 June 1945	27 December 1947
47	General-colonel	Constantin Popescu	30 January 1948	18 March 1950
48	General de Armată	Leontin Sălăjan	18 March 1950	26 April 1954
49	General (R.)	Ion Tutoveanu	26 April 1954	15 June 1965
50	General (R.)	Ion Gheorghe	15 June 1965	29 November 1974
51	General-locotenent (R.)	Ion Coman	29 November 1974	16 June 1976
52	General-locotenent	Ion Hortopan	1 July 1976	31 March 1980
53	General-colonel	Vasile Milea	31 March 1980	16 February 1985
54	General-maior	Ştefan Guşă	25 September 1986	28 December 1989
55	General (R.)	Vasile Ionel	29 December 1989	2 May 1991
56	General (R.)	Dumitru Cioflină	3 May 1991	22 January 1997
57	General (R.)	Constantin Degeratu	22 January 1997	7 March 2000
58	General-locotenent (R.)	Dr. Mircea Chelaru	7 March 2000	31 October 2000
59	General (R.)	Dr. Mihail Eugen Popescu	31 October 2000	25 October 2004
60	General	Dr. Eugen Bădălan	25 October 2004	13 September 2006
61	Admiral	Dr. Gheorghe Marin	13 September 2006	28 December 2010
62	General-maior	Dr. Ştefan Dănilă	28 December 2010	incumbent

See also

• Romanian Land Forces
• Romanian Air Force
• Romanian Naval Forces

References

• Romanian Ministry of Defence website, "Şefii Statului Major General"PDF (119 KiB)
• General Staff website