Chief of the General Staff (Czechoslovakia)

The Chief of the General Staff of Czechoslovakia refers to the Chief of the General Staff of the Czechoslovak Army, from the creation of the First Czechoslovak Republic in 1918 until the dissolution of the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic in 1992.

List of chiefs of the general staff

Chiefs of the Main Staff of the Czechoslovak Armed Forces (1919–1939)

#	Name	Image	Born–Died	Rank	Start	End	Note
1	Maurice Pellé		1863–1924	Divisional General	17 December 1919	31 December 1920
2	Eugène Mittelhausser		1873–1949	Divisional General	1 January 1921	31 December 1925
3	Jan Syrový		1888–1970	General of the Army	1 January 1926	11 November 1933	Also served as the Minister of Defence from 18 March 1926 to 11 October 1926
4	Ludvík Krejčí		1890–1972	General of the Army	11 November 1933	23 September 1938	1st Term
5	Vladimír Kajdoš		1893–1970	Brigadier General	23 September 1938	4 October 1938
6	Ludvík Krejčí		1890–1972	General of the Army	20 December 1938	1 March 1939	2nd Term

Commander-in-Chief of the Czechoslovak Armed Forces (1938)

#	Name	Image	Born–Died	Rank	Start	End	Note
1	Ludvík Krejčí		1890–1972	General of the Army	23 September 1938	20 December 1938

Chief of Staff of the Czechoslovak military administration (France, 1940)

#	Name	Image	Born–Died	Rank	Start	End	Note
1	Bedřich Neumann		1891–1964	Brigadier General	1 February 1940	12 June 1940

Chiefs of Staff of the Ministry of National Defense (United Kingdom, 1940–1945)

#	Name	Image	Born–Died	Rank	Start	End	Note
1	Jaroslav Čihák		1891–1944	Brigadier General	23 July 1940	13 January 1941
2	Bruno Sklenovský		1893–1957	Brigadier General	13 January 1941	12 April 1945

Commanders-in-Chief of the Czechoslovak Armed Forces (United Kingdom, 1944–1945)

#	Name	Image	Born–Died	Rank	Start	End	Note
1	Sergej Ingr		1894–1956	General of the Army	19 September 1944	5 April 1945
2	Ludvík Svoboda		1895–1979	General of the Army	12 April 1945	31 December 1945

Chiefs of the Main Staff of the Czechoslovak Armed Forces (1945–1950)

#	Name	Image	Born–Died	Rank	Start	End	Note
1	Bohumil Boček		1894–1952	General of the Army	12 April 1945	1 August 1948
2	Šimon Drgáč		1892–1980	General of the Army	1 August 1948	26 April 1950

Chief of the General Staff of the Czechoslovak Army (1950–1952)

#	Name	Image	Born–Died	Rank	Start	End	Note
1	Jaroslav Procházka		1897–1980	General of the Army	26 April 1950	31 January 1952

Chiefs of the General Staff of the Czechoslovak People's Army (1952–1991)

#	Name	Image	Born–Died	Rank	Start	End	Note
1	Václav Kratochvíl		1903–1988	Colonel General	31 January 1952	28 July 1958
2	Otakar Rytíř		1913–1979	General of the Army	28 July 1958	19 April 1968
3	Karel Rusov		1924–2013	Colonel General	19 April 1968	26 November 1979
4	Miloslav Blahník		1927–	Colonel General	26 November 1979	13 October 1987
5	Miroslav Vacek		1935–	Colonel General	13 October 1987	27 December 1989
6	Anton Slimák		1941–	Lt. General	27 December 1989	1 May 1991

Chief of the General Staff of the Czechoslovak Army (1991–1992)

#	Name	Image	Born–Died	Rank	Start	End	Note
1	Karel Pezl		1927–	Lt. General	1 May 1991	31 December 1992

Trivia

The first two Chiefs of the General Staff of Czechoslovakia were French, as the General Staff was founded by the French Military Mission to Czechoslovakia.

See also

• Chief of the General Staff (Czech Republic)
• Chief of the General Staff (Slovakia)

External links

• Chiefs of the General Staff of Czechoslovakia 1919-1992