No. |
Portrait |
Chief of Staff | Took office | Left office | Time in office |
1 | | Lieutenant general Camilo García de Polavieja (1838–1914) | 25 December 1904 | 19 March 1906 | 1 year, 84 days |
2 | | Lieutenant general Vicente Martitegui [es] (1843–1912) | 23 March 1906 | 8 November 1908 | 2 years, 230 days |
3 | | Lieutenant general Diego de los Ríos (1850–1911) | 8 March 1909 | 14 January 1910 | 312 days |
4 | | Lieutenant general Julián González Parrado | 14 January 1910 | 27 December 1912 | 2 years, 348 days |
Office suppressed between 1912 and 1916 |
5 | | Captain general of the Army Valeriano Weyler (1838–1930) | 14 January 1916 | 5 January 1922 | 5 years, 356 days |
6 | | Lieutenant general Luis Aizpuru y Mondéjar [es] (1857–1939) | 7 January 1922 | 27 May 1923 | 1 year, 140 days |
7 | | Captain general of the Army Valeriano Weyler (1838–1930) | 28 July 1923 | 6 October 1925 | 2 years, 70 days |
Office suppressed between 1925 and 1931 |
8 | | Divisional general Manuel Goded Llopis (1882–1936) | 31 July 1931 | 30 June 1932 | 335 days |
9 | | Divisional general Carlos Masquelet [es] (1871–1948) | 17 February 1933 | 4 April 1935 | 2 years, 46 days |
10 | | Divisional general Francisco Franco (1892–1975) | 19 May 1935 | 23 February 1936 | 280 days |
11 | | Divisional general José Sánchez-Ocaña Beltrán [es] (1874–1964) | 23 February 1936 | 19 July 1936 | 147 days |
Civil War |
12 | | Divisional general Toribio Martínez Cabrera (1874–1939) (Disputed) | 19 July 1936 | 20 May 1937 | 305 days |
13 | | Brigadier Fidel Dávila Arrondo (1878–1962) (Disputed) | 2 October 1936 | 30 September 1939 | 2 years, 363 days |
14 | | Divisional general Vicente Rojo Lluch (1894–1966) (Disputed) | 20 May 1937 | 9 February 1939 | 1 year, 265 days |
End of the Civil War |
15 | | Artillery Colonel Carlos Martínez de Campos y Serrano [es] (1887–1975) | 30 September 1939 | 12 May 1941 | 1 year, 224 days |
16 | | Brigadier general Carlos Asensio Cabanillas (1896–1969) | 12 May 1941 | 4 September 1942 | 1 year, 115 days |
17 | | Divisional general Rafael García Valiño (1898–1972) | 4 September 1942 | 24 March 1950 | 7 years, 201 days |
18 | | Lieutenant general Fernando Barrón (1892–1952) | 24 March 1950 | 9 November 1952 | 2 years, 230 days |
19 | | Lieutenant general Emilio Esteban Infantes (1892–1962) | 9 November 1952 | 5 October 1955 | 2 years, 330 days |
20 | | Lieutenant general Antonio Alcubilla Pérez | 5 October 1955 | 27 April 1959 | 3 years, 204 days |
21 | | Lieutenant general José Cuesta Monereo (1895–1981) | 27 April 1959 | 30 December 1961 | 2 years, 247 days |
22 | | Lieutenant general Valero Valderrábanos Samitier | 30 December 1961 | 16 November 1962 | 321 days |
23 | | Lieutenant general Ramón Gotarredona Prats [es] (1898–1968) | 16 November 1962 | 25 October 1963 | 343 days |
24 | | Lieutenant general Rafael Cavanillas Prosper [es] (1899–1998) | 25 October 1963 | 13 July 1965 | 1 year, 261 days |
25 | | Lieutenant general César Mantilla Lautrec | 6 August 1965 | 18 June 1968 | 2 years, 317 days |
26 | | Lieutenant general Fernando González-Camino y Aguirre | 18 June 1968 | 2 July 1971 | 3 years, 14 days |
27 | | Lieutenant general Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba y Ziburu | 2 July 1971 | 12 November 1973 | 2 years, 133 days |
28 | | Lieutenant general Emilio Villaescusa Quilis [es] (1912–2002) | 12 November 1973 | 1 July 1976 | 2 years, 232 days |
29 | | Lieutenant general Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado (1912–1995) | 1 July 1976 | 26 October 1976 | 117 days |
30 | | Lieutenant general Ramón Cuadra Medina | 3 November 1976 | 13 January 1977 | 71 days |
31 | | Lieutenant general José Vega Rodríguez [lower-alpha 1] | 13 January 1977 | 24 May 1978 | 1 year, 131 days |
32 | | Lieutenant general Tomás de Liniers y Pidal [lower-alpha 1] | 24 May 1978 | 18 May 1979 | 359 days |
33 | | Lieutenant general José Gabeiras [es] (1916–2005) [lower-alpha 2] | 18 May 1979 | 15 January 1982 | 2 years, 242 days |
34 | | Lieutenant general Ramón Ascanio y Togores [lower-alpha 2] | 15 January 1982 | 11 January 1984 | 1 year, 361 days |
35 | | Lieutenant general José Sáenz de Tejada y Fernández de Bobadilla [lower-alpha 2] | 11 January 1984 | 31 October 1986 | 2 years, 293 days |
36 | | Lieutenant general Miguel Íñiguez del Moral [lower-alpha 2] | 31 October 1986 | 18 May 1990 | 3 years, 199 days |
37 | | Lieutenant general Ramón Porgueres Hernández [es] (1928–2018) [lower-alpha 2] | 18 May 1990 | 14 February 1994 | 3 years, 272 days |
38 | | Lieutenant general José Faura Martín [lower-alpha 2] | 14 February 1994 | 1 October 1998 | 4 years, 229 days |
39 | | General of the Army Alfonso Pardo de Santayana y Coloma (1936–2015) | 1 October 1998 | 17 January 2003 | 4 years, 108 days |
40 | | General of the Army Luis Alejandre Sintes | 17 January 2003 | 25 June 2004 | 1 year, 160 days |
41 | | General of the Army José Antonio García González | 25 June 2004 | 28 April 2006 | 1 year, 307 days |
42 | | General of the Army Carlos Villar Turrau (born 1945) | 28 April 2006 | 18 July 2008 | 2 years, 81 days |
43 | | General of the Army Fulgencio Coll Bucher (born 1948) | 18 July 2008 | 27 July 2012 | 4 years, 9 days |
44 | | General of the Army Jaime Domínguez Buj (born 1952) | 27 July 2012 | 1 April 2017 | 4 years, 248 days |
45 | | General of the Army Francisco Javier Varela Salas (born 1952) | 1 April 2017 | 6 October 2021 | 4 years, 188 days |
46 | | General of the Army Amador Fernando Enseñat y Berea (born 1960) | 6 October 2021 | Incumbent | 2 years, 192 days |