Ministry of National Defense (Chile)
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Logo of the Ministry of National Defense
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Flag of the Minister of National Defense
The Ministry of National Defense (Spanish: Ministerio de Defensa Nacional) is the cabinet-level administrative office in charge of "maintaining the independence and sovereignty" of Chile. It is also charged with planning, directing, coordinating, executing, controlling and informing the defense policies formulated by the President of Chile. The minister supervises all the Chilean armed forces. The current Defense Minister is José Antonio Gómez.
History
During the first days of the independence movements, the senior "secretary" of the respective Junta would function as the Secretary of Government with administrative power over the army. The office officially first came to be on March 17, 1814, when then Supreme Director Francisco de la Lastra dictated the Constitutional Norms approved on that date. It was then named Secretariat of War. It was abolished the same year by the Spanish authorities when, after the Battle of Rancagua, they re-asserted royal power.
On October 23, 1818, after independence the secretariat was re-established, but this time with the inclusion of the Department of Navy as a "Secretariat of War and Navy" (1818-1837), though in common usage, the secretaries started to be called ministers when they held both secretariats (War and Navy) concurrently. Later on February 1, 1837 the office was officially renamed "Ministry of War and Navy" (1837-1932). In 1924, War and Navy were separated into two independent ministries, but on July 8, 1932 both branches were reunited again into one ministry renamed "Ministry of Defense", with the addition of the department of Aviation that had belonged to the Ministry of the Interior until that date.
On October 28, 1947, by Decree 2.320, it fell under the purview of this ministry the control of the Supreme Command of National Defense, the General Staff of the Armed Forces, the Central Purchasing Committee of the Armed Forces, the Civil Defense Forces and the Chilean chapter of the Red Cross. In 1960, the oversight was expanded to include the Superior Council on National Security (Consusena) and the Council of Commanders-in-Chief. According to Decree 200 of April 15, 1976, the oversight was again expanded to include the National Police (Carabineros and Investigaciones).
As indicated before, this ministry has undergone several reorganizations during its long history, reflected in its different names:
- Secretariat of War (1814)
- Secretariat of War and Navy (1818-1831)
- Ministry of War and Navy (1831-1924)
- Ministry of War and Ministry of Navy (1924-1932)
- Ministry of National Defense - First Creation (1932)
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- Ministry of War and Aviation and Ministry of Navy (1932)
- Ministry of National Defense - Second Creation (1932–present)
Organization
The main dependencies of the Ministry are:
- Undersecretary of Defense: in charge of the defence policy
- Undersecretary of the Armed Forces in charge of the administratives duties
- Joint Staff Command
Titulars
Patria Vieja period
| Picture | Name | Entered Office | Exited Office | Notes | Appointed by |
| Andrés Nicolás de Orjera | March 14, 1814 | July 23, 1814 | Secretary of War | Francisco de la Lastra | |
| 70px | Manuel Rodríguez Erdoyza | August 10, 1814 | October 2, 1814 | Secretary of War | Government Junta |
| Picture | Name | Entered Office | Exited Office | Notes | Appointed by |
| 70px | José Ignacio Zenteno del Pozo | February 18, 1817 | October 8, 1820 | Bernardo O'Higgins | |
| José Antonio Rodríguez Aldea | October 8, 1820 | January 7, 1823 | Secretary of War | ||
| Joaquín Echeverría Larraín | January 28, 1823 | Secretary of Navy | |||
| Fernando Elizalde | January 7, 1823 | Secretary of War | |||
| 70px | Agustín Vial Santelices | January 28, 1823 | April 4, 1823 | Secretary of War | Government Junta |
| 70px | Mariano Egaña Fabres | Secretary of Navy | |||
| Juan de Dios Rivera | April 4, 1823 | July 12, 1824 | Ramón Freire | ||
| Santiago Fernández Barriga | July 12, 1824 | February 22, 1825 | |||
| José Ignacio Eyzaguirre Arechavala | February 22, 1825 | June 18, 1825 | Secretary of War | ||
| 70px | Francisco Ramón Vicuña Larraín | Secretary of Navy | |||
| Rafael Correa de Saa Lazón | June 18, 1825 | October 9, 1825 | Secretary of War | ||
| Juan de Dios Vial del Río | Secretary of Navy | ||||
| José María Novoa López | October 9, 1825 | June 21, 1826 | |||
| Tomás Obejero | June 21, 1826 | September 26, 1826 | Interim | ||
| 70px | Luis de la Cruz y Goyeneche | September 26, 1826 | March 8, 1827 | Agustín Eyzaguirre | |
| José Manuel Borgoño Núñez y Silva | March 8, 1827 | July 16, 1829 | Ramón Freire | ||
| José Santiago Muñoz Bezanilla | July 16, 1829 | November 9, 1829 | Francisco Ramón Vicuña | ||
| José Antonio Pérez de Cotapos | November 9, 1829 | December 7, 1829 | |||
| 70px | José María Benavente Bustamante | February 20, 1830 | September 25, 1830 | Appointed by | Francisco Ruiz-Tagle |
| Reappointed by | José Tomás Ovalle | ||||
| 70px | José María de la Cruz Prieto | September 25, 1830 | March 24, 1831 | Appointed by | |
| Reappointed by | Fernando Errázuriz | ||||
| 70px | Diego Portales Palazuelos | March 24, 1831 | August 31, 1831 | Appointed by | |
| Reappointed by | José Joaquín Prieto | ||||
| Bartolomé Mujica | August 31, 1831 | September 19, 1831 | Secretary of War | ||
| Manuel José Calderón | Secretary of Navy | ||||
| 70px | Diego Portales Palazuelos | September 19, 1831 | December 4, 1832 | ||
| Ramón de la Cavareda Trucíos | December 4, 1832 | April 21, 1835 | |||
| 70px | Diego Portales Palazuelos | April 21, 1835 | June 7, 1836 | ||
| Ramón de la Cavareda Trucíos | June 7, 1836 | March 27, 1841 | |||
| 70px | Manuel Montt Torres | March 27, 1841 | September 18, 1841 | Interim | |
| 70px | José María de la Cruz Prieto | September 18, 1841 | April 20, 1842 | Manuel Bulnes | |
| 70px | José Santiago Aldunate Toro | April 20, 1842 | September 18, 1846 | ||
| José Manuel Borgoño Núñez | September 18, 1846 | April 8, 1848 | |||
| Pedro Nolasco Vidal | April 8, 1848 | September 18, 1851 | |||
| 70px | José Francisco Gana | September 18, 1851 | January 13, 1853 | Manuel Montt | |
| Pedro Nolasco Vidal | January 13, 1853 | September 18, 1856 | |||
| 70px | José Francisco Gana | September 18, 1856 | September 29, 1857 | ||
| Manuel García Banqueda | September 29, 1857 | July 9, 1862 | Appointed by | ||
| Reappointed by | José Joaquín Pérez | ||||
| 70px | Marcos Maturana del Campo | July 9, 1862 | March 30, 1865 | ||
| José Manuel Pinto Arias | March 30, 1865 | September 8, 1866 | |||
| 70px | Federico Errázuriz Zañartu | September 8, 1866 | November 13, 1868 | ||
| Francisco Echaurren García-Huidobro | November 13, 1868 | August 2, 1870 | |||
| José Ramón Lira Calvo | August 2, 1870 | September 18, 1871 | |||
| 70px | Aníbal Pinto Garmendia | September 18, 1871 | April 3, 1875 | Federico Errázuriz Zañartu | |
| 70px | Ignacio Zenteno Gana | April 3, 1875 | April 19, 1875 | ||
| 70px | Mariano Sánchez Fontecilla | April 19, 1875 | September 18, 1876 | ||
| 70px | Belisario Prats Pérez | September 18, 1876 | October 27, 1877 | Aníbal Pinto | |
| Manuel García de la Huerta Pérez | October 27, 1877 | August 5, 1878 | |||
| 70px | Cornelio Saavedra Rodríguez | August 5, 1878 | April 17, 1879 | ||
| Basilio Urrutia Vásquez | April 17, 1879 | August 20, 1879 | |||
| 70px | Rafael Sotomayor Baeza | August 20, 1879 | June 16, 1880 | ||
| 70px | Eusebio Lillo Robles | June 16, 1880 | July 15, 1880 | ||
| 70px | José Francisco Vergara Donoso | July 15, 1880 | September 18, 1881 | ||
| 70px | Carlos Castellón Larenas | September 18, 1881 | January 18, 1884 | Domingo Santa María | |
| 70px | Patricio Lynch y Solo de Zaldívar | January 18, 1884 | May 7, 1884 | ||
| 70px | Carlos Antúnez González | May 7, 1884 | September 18, 1886 | ||
| Evaristo Sánchez Fontecilla | September 18, 1886 | November 30, 1886 | José Manuel Balmaceda | ||
| Nicolás Peña Vicuña | November 30, 1886 | June 28, 1887 | |||
| Manuel García de la Huerta Pérez | June 28, 1887 | April 13, 1888 | |||
| Evaristo Sánchez Fontecilla | April 13, 1888 | November 2, 1888 | |||
| 70px | Ramón Donoso Vergara | November 2, 1888 | May 1, 1889 | ||
| José Miguel Valdés Carrera | May 1, 1889 | June 11, 1889 | |||
| Abraham König Velásquez | June 11, 1889 | October 23, 1889 | |||
| 70px | Ismael Valdés Valdés | October 23, 1889 | November 7, 1889 | ||
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Luis Barros Borgoño | November 7, 1889 | January 21, 1890 | ||
| 70px | José Velásquez Bórquez | January 21, 1890 | August 7, 1890 | ||
| 70px | Federico Errázuriz Echaurren | August 7, 1890 | October 15, 1890 | ||
| José Francisco Gana Castro | October 15, 1890 | March 29, 1891 | |||
| 70px | José Velásquez Bórquez | March 29, 1891 | August 29, 1891 | ||
| 70px | Adolfo Holley Urzúa | September 7, 1891 | December 26, 1891 | Revolutionary Junta of Iquique | |
| Ventura Blanco Viel | December 26, 1891 | March 14, 1892 | Jorge Montt | ||
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Luis Barros Borgoño | March 14, 1892 | July 9, 1892 | ||
| Luis Arteaga | July 9, 1892 | September 22, 1892 | |||
| 70px | Francisco Antonio Pinto Cruz | September 22, 1892 | April 22, 1893 | ||
| Isidoro Errázuriz | April 22, 1893 | August 8, 1893 | |||
| Manuel Villamil Blanco | August 8, 1893 | October 6, 1893 | |||
| Juan Antonio Orrego | October 6, 1893 | April 26, 1894 | |||
| Santiago Aldunate Bascuñan | April 26, 1894 | December 7, 1894 | |||
| Carlos Rivera Jofré | December 7, 1894 | August 1, 1895 | |||
| 70px | Ismael Valdés Valdés | August 1, 1895 | November 24, 1895 | ||
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Luis Barros Borgoño | November 24, 1895 | September 18, 1896 | ||
| 70px | Manuel Bulnes Pinto | September 18, 1896 | November 26, 1896 | Federico Errázuriz Echaurren | |
| 70px | Elías Fernández Albano | November 26, 1896 | June 26, 1897 | ||
| Benjamín Vergara | June 26, 1897 | August 25, 1897 | |||
| Carlos Palacios Zapata | August 25, 1897 | December 23, 1897 | |||
| Patricio Larraín Alcalde | December 23, 1897 | May 5, 1898 | |||
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Ventura Blanco Viel | May 5, 1898 | December 19, 1898 | ||
| 70px | Carlos Concha Subercaseaux | December 19, 1898 | June 27, 1899 | ||
| 70px | Javier Angel Figueroa Larraín | June 27, 1899 | September 2, 1899 | ||
| 70px | Carlos Concha Subercaseaux | September 2, 1899 | November 27, 1899 | ||
| Ricardo Matte Pérez | November 27, 1899 | November 3, 1900 | |||
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Arturo Besa Navarro | November 3, 1900 | March 14, 1901 | ||
| Vicente Palacios Baeza | March 14, 1901 | May 1, 1901 | |||
| Wenceslao Bulnes | May 1, 1901 | September 18, 1901 | |||
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Beltrán Mathieu Andrews | September 18, 1901 | May 6, 1902 | Germán Riesco | |
| Víctor Manuel Lamas | May 6, 1902 | November 20, 1902 | |||
| Francisco Baeza | November 20, 1902 | April 4, 1903 | |||
| Ricardo Matte Pérez | April 4, 1903 | September 1, 1903 | |||
| Carlos Besa Navarro | September 1, 1903 | October 23, 1903 | |||
| Luis Barros Méndez | October 23, 1903 | January 10, 1904 | |||
| 70px | Aníbal Cruz Díaz | January 10, 1904 | March 12, 1904 | ||
| 70px | Ascanio Bascuñan Santa María | March 12, 1904 | April 12, 1904 | ||
| Joaquín Muñoz Hurtado | April 12, 1904 | October 30, 1904 | |||
| 70px | Ascanio Bascuñan Santa María | October 30, 1904 | March 18, 1905 | ||
| Ramón Corvalán Melgarejo | March 18, 1905 | August 1, 1905 | |||
| 70px | Luis Uribe Orrego | August 1, 1905 | October 21, 1905 | ||
| Manuel Fóster Recabarren | October 21, 1905 | March 19, 1906 | |||
| Manuel Covarrubias | March 19, 1906 | May 7, 1906 | |||
| Salvador Vergara | May 7, 1906 | September 18, 1906 | |||
| Belisario Prats Bello | September 18, 1906 | October 29, 1906 | Pedro Montt | ||
| José Francisco Fabres | October 29, 1906 | June 12, 1907 | |||
| Alejandro Lira | June 12, 1907 | October 25, 1907 | |||
| Belisario Prats Bello | October 25, 1907 | August 29, 1908 | |||
| 70px | Aníbal Rodríguez Herrera | August 29, 1908 | January 22, 1909 | ||
| 70px | Darío Zañartu del Río | January 22, 1909 | June 15, 1909 | ||
| Roberto Huneeus Gana | June 15, 1909 | September 15, 1909 | |||
| 70px | Aníbal Rodríguez Herrera | September 15, 1909 | June 25, 1910 | ||
| Carlos Larraín Claro | June 25, 1910 | December 23, 1910 | |||
| Arístides Pinto Concha | December 23, 1910 | January 11, 1911 | Ramón Barros Luco | ||
| Ramón León Luco | January 11, 1911 | July 11, 1911 | |||
| 70px | Aníbal Rodríguez Herrera | July 11, 1911 | August 15, 1911 | ||
| 70px | Alejandro Huneeus García-Huidobro | August 15, 1911 | January 23, 1912 | ||
| Alejandro Rosselot | January 23, 1912 | May 29, 1912 | |||
| Luis Devoto | May 29, 1912 | August 8, 1912 | |||
| Claudio Vicuña Subercaseaux | August 8, 1912 | January 13, 1913 | |||
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Jorge Matte Gormaz | January 13, 1913 | November 16, 1913 | ||
| Ramón Corvalán Melgarejo | November 16, 1913 | September 6, 1914 | |||
| Alfredo Barros Errázuriz | September 6, 1914 | December 15, 1914 | |||
| Ricardo Cox Méndez | December 15, 1914 | June 7, 1915 | |||
| Guillermo Soublette | June 7, 1915 | December 23, 1915 | |||
| Salvador Vergara | December 23, 1915 | January 8, 1916 | Juan Luis Sanfuentes | ||
| 70px | Cornelio Saavedra Montt | January 8, 1916 | July 1, 1916 | ||
| 70px | Jorge Boonen Rivera | July 1, 1916 | November 20, 1916 | ||
| Oscar Urzúa Jaramillo | November 20, 1916 | July 14, 1917 | |||
| Pedro Nicolás Montenegro | July 14, 1917 | October 13, 1917 | |||
| Oscar Viel Cavero | October 13, 1917 | January 18, 1918 | |||
| Luis Vicuña Cifuentes | January 18, 1918 | April 22, 1918 | |||
| Jorge Valdivieso Blanco | April 22, 1918 | September 6, 1918 | |||
| Víctor Robles | September 6, 1918 | November 28, 1918 | |||
| 70px | Enrique Bermúdez de la Paz | November 28, 1918 | September 23, 1919 | ||
| 70px | Aníbal Rodríguez Herrera | September 23, 1919 | November 8, 1919 | ||
| Germán Ignacio Riesco Errázuriz | November 8, 1919 | March 29, 1920 | |||
| Régulo Valenzuela | March 29, 1920 | June 16, 1920 | |||
| 70px | Pedro Opazo Letelier | June 16, 1920 | July 1, 1920 | ||
| 70px | Ladislao Errázuriz Lazcano | July 1, 1920 | December 23, 1920 | ||
| Carlos Silva Cruz | December 23, 1920 | May 12, 1921 | Arturo Alessandri | ||
| Enrique Balmaceda Toro | May 12, 1921 | August 16, 1921 | |||
| Remigio Medina | August 16, 1921 | November 3, 1921 | |||
| Samuel Claro Lastarria | November 3, 1921 | March 22, 1922 | |||
| Ignacio Marchant Scott | March 22, 1922 | April 1, 1922 | |||
| Roberto Sánchez García de la Huerta | April 1, 1922 | August 29, 1922 | |||
| Hernán Correa Roberts | August 29, 1922 | December 21, 1922 | |||
| José Onofre Bunster Villagra | December 21, 1922 | January 12, 1923 | |||
| Gustavo Silva Campo | January 12, 1923 | March 16, 1923 | |||
| Jorge Andrés Guerra | March 16, 1923 | June 15, 1923 | |||
| 70px | Luis Altamirano Talavera | June 15, 1923 | January 4, 1924 | ||
| Alfredo Ewing | January 4, 1924 | February 1, 1924 | |||
| Luis Brieba | February 1, 1924 | July 22, 1924 | |||
| Luis Gaspar Mora Sotomayor | July 22, 1924 | September 5, 1924 | |||
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Juan Pablo Bennett Argandoña | September 5, 1924 | September 11, 1924 | ||
| 70px | Luis Gómez Carreño | September 12, 1924 | December 19, 1924 | September Junta |
Ministers of War
| Picture | Name | Entered Office | Exited Office | Notes | Appointed by |
| Emiliano Ortiz Vega | December 19, 1924 | January 23, 1925 | September Junta | ||
| 70px | Carlos Ibáñez del Campo | January 29, 1925 | February 22, 1927 | January Junta | |
| Emiliano Ortiz Vega | February 22, 1927 | May 23, 1927 | Emiliano Figueroa | ||
| Carlos Frödden Lorenzen | May 23, 1927 | June 21, 1927 | Minister of National Defense | Carlos Ibáñez del Campo | |
| 70px | Bartolomé Blanche Espejo | June 21, 1927 | November 7, 1930 | ||
| 70px | Pedro Charpin Rival | November 7, 1930 | July 26, 1931 | ||
| Carlos Sáez Morales | July 26, 1931 | August 14, 1931 | Appointed by | Pedro Opazo | |
| Reappointed by | Juan Esteban Montero | ||||
| Enrique Bravo Ortiz | August 14, 1931 | September 3, 1931 | |||
| Carlos Vergara Montero | September 3, 1931 | March 5, 1932 | Manuel Trucco |
| Picture | Name | Entered Office | Exited Office | Notes | Appointed by |
| 70px | Luis Gómez Carreño | December 19, 1924 | January 23, 1925 | September Junta | |
| Braulio Bahamonde | January 29, 1925 | December 23, 1925 | January Junta | ||
| Arturo Swett Otaegui | December 23, 1925 | February 22, 1927 | Emiliano Figueroa | ||
| Carlos Frödden Lorenzen | February 22, 1927 | May 23, 1927 | |||
| May 23, 1927 | June 21, 1927 | Minister of National Defense | Carlos Ibáñez del Campo | ||
| June 21, 1927 | August 5, 1930 | ||||
| Edgardo von Schröeders Sarratea | August 5, 1930 | April 27, 1931 | |||
| Hipólito Marchant Morales | April 27, 1931 | July 26, 1931 | |||
| Calisto Rogers Ceas | July 26, 1931 | September 3, 1931 | Appointed by | Pedro Opazo | |
| Reappointed by | Juan Esteban Montero | ||||
| Enrique Spoerer Jardel | September 3, 1931 | March 5, 1932 | Manuel Trucco |
Ministers of National Defense (First Creation)
| Picture | Name | Entered Office | Exited Office | Notes | Appointed by |
| Miguel Urrutia Barboza | March 9, 1932 | April 7, 1932 | Juan Esteban Montero | ||
| Ignacio Urrutia Manzano | April 7, 1932 | June 4, 1932 | |||
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Marmaduque Grove Vallejo | June 5, 1932 | June 17, 1932 | Socialist Junta | |
| 70px | Arturo Puga Osorio | June 17, 1932 | July 8, 1932 |
Ministers of War and Aviation
| Picture | Name | Entered Office | Exited Office | Notes | Appointed by |
| Pedro Lagos Lagos | July 8, 1932 | September 14, 1932 | Carlos Dávila | ||
| Luis Otero Mujica | September 14, 1932 | October 3, 1932 | Bartolomé Blanche | ||
| Carlos Sáez Morales | October 3, 1932 | December 24, 1932 | Abraham Oyanedel |
| Picture | Name | Entered Office | Exited Office | Notes | Appointed by |
| Francisco Nieto | July 8, 1932 | August 12, 1932 | Carlos Dávila | ||
| Alberto Barbosa Baeza | August 12, 1932 | August 13, 1932 | |||
| José Manuel Montalva Barrientos | August 13, 1932 | October 3, 1932 | |||
| Arturo Swett Otaegui | October 3, 1932 | December 24, 1932 | Abraham Oyanedel |
Ministers of National Defense (Second Creation)
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See also
References
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