Army Staff (Denmark)

Army Staff
Hærstaben
Active	1950–1990 (1st time) 2014–2018 (2nd time)
Country	Denmark
Branch	Royal Danish Army
Type	Staff
Role	Operational, territorial and tactical operations

The Army Staff (Danish: Hærstaben) is the name of various military staffs in the Royal Danish Army. At multiple times it was the highest authority within the Army.

The original Army Staff was created following the first major restructuring following the Second World War, and consisted of the General Staff. It was responsible for war preparations (training and education), studies and planning. It supported the Army Command. After the Army Command was subjugated to the Defence Command in 1976, the Army Staff became the main command of the Army.^[1] Following the 1988 Defence Commission, it was decided that the Army Staff and the positions of Inspector of the Army would be disbanded and replaced with the Army Operational Command.^[2][3] Following the Danish Defence Agreement 2013–17, the Army Operational Command was disbanded, re-establishing the Army Staff. As part of the Danish Defence Agreement 2018–23, the Army Staff was abolished and changed to the Army Command again.^[4]

No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office			Ref.
			Took office	Left office	Time in office
1		Major general Erik Kragh [da] (1901–1984)	1951	30 April 1957	5–6 years	[5]
2		Major general Povl Martin Digmann (1900–1969)	1 May 1957	1959	1–2 years
3		Major general Valdemar Jacobsen (1902–1987)	1959	30 June 1960	0–1 years
4		Major general Eigil Wolff [da] (1914–1983)	1 July 1960	31 October 1963	3 years, 122 days	[6]
5		Major general Otto Blixenkrone-Møller [da] (1912–2006)	1 November 1963	31 July 1967	3 years, 272 days	[7]
6		Major general Christian Vegger [da] (1915–1992)	1 August 1967	31 December 1969	2 years, 153 days

No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office			Ref.
			Took office	Left office	Time in office
Chief of the Army (Chefen for Hæren)
1		Lieutenant general Otto Blixenkrone-Møller [da] (1912–2006)	1 January 1970	30 November 1972	2 years, 334 days	[7]
2		Major general Christian Vegger [da] (1915–1992)	1 December 1972	1976	3–4 years	[8]
3		Major general Harald Martin Hermann Boysen (1922–2019)	1976	30 June 1982	5–6 years	[9]
Inspector of the Army (Inspektøren for Hæren)
1		Major general Harald Martin Hermann Boysen (1922–2019)	1 July 1982	1987	4–5 years	[9]
2		Major general Jørgen Christian Essemann (born 1933)	1987	1990	2–3 years	[10]
3		Major general Kjeld Hillingsø (born 1935)	1990	31 December 1990	0 years	[11]

No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office			Ref.
			Took office	Left office	Time in office
1		Mathiesen, Hans-ChristianMajor general Hans-Christian Mathiesen (born 1965)	1 October 2014	24 October 2018	4 years, 23 days	[12][13] [14]
–		Christensen, Keld RobertColonel Keld Robert Christensen (born 1963) Acting	24 October 2018	31 December 2018	68 days	[14][15]

• Army Command (Denmark)

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