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List of directors general of the Civil Guard (Spain)

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List of directors general of the Civil Guard (Spain)

This article lists the directors general of the Civil Guard, the national gendarmerie and a law enforcement agency of Spain.

Quick Facts Director General of the Civil Guard, Style ...
Director General of the Civil Guard
Director General de la Guardia Civil
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Emblem of the Civil Guard
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since 28 March 2023
Ministry of the Interior
Secretariat of State for Security
Civil Guard
StyleThe Most Excellent (formal)
Mr. Director General (informal)
AbbreviationDGC
Reports toThe Secretary of State for Security
NominatorThe Minister of the Interior
AppointerThe King
Formation2 September 1844
First holderFrancisco Javier Girón
DeputyDeputy Director of Operations
Lt. Gen. Ángel Gozalo Martín
WebsiteCivil Guard website
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General Camilo Alonso Vega, longest-serving Director General of the Civil Guard (1943–1955).

The Director General is the official of the Ministry of the Interior who commands the Civil Guard, and heads the Directorate-General of the Civil Guard.

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NameAppointedDismissedNotes
Francisco Javier Girón2 September 184410 July 18541st term.
Antonio María Alós18 July 18541 August 1854
Facundo Infante Chaves1 August 185419 July 1856
José MacCrohon y Blake1 September 185612 October 1856
Francisco Javier Girón12 October 18561 July 18582nd term.
Isidoro de Hoyos y Rubín de Celis2 July 185821 November 18631st term.
Ángel García-Loygorri y García de Tejada29 September 186425 June 1865
Isidoro de Hoyos y Rubín de Celis25 June 186528 December 18652nd term.
Francisco Serrano Bedoya28 December 186511 July 18661st term.
Rafael Acedo Rico y Amat11 July 186611 March 1867
José Antonio Turón y Prats11 March 186716 September 18681st term.
Anselmo Blaser y San Martín16 September 186826 September 1868Glorious Revolution.
Juan Antonio de Zaratiegui y Zeliqueta26 September 186825 October 1868
Francisco Serrano Bedoya25 October 186818 June 18722nd term.
Cándido Pieltain y Jove-Huergo19 June 187226 March 1873Proclamation of the First Spanish Republic (11 February 1873).
Mariano Socías del Fangar y Lledó5 July 187319 September 1873
Juan Acosta Muñoz19 September 187310 October 1873
Segundo de la Portilla Gutiérrez10 October 187318 January 1874
José Antonio Turón y Prats18 January 187428 September 18742nd term.
Fernando Cotoner y Chacón28 September 187421 January 1882Restoration of the monarchy (29 December 1874).
Tomás García-Cervino y López de Sigüenza23 January 18825 November 18831st term.
Agustín de Burgos y Llamas5 November 188326 April 1884
Ramón Fajardo Izquierdo26 April 18844 August 1884
Remigio Moltó y Díaz-Berrio6 August 18849 December 1885
Tomás García-Cervino y López-Sigüenza9 December 18853 December 18872nd term.
José Chinchilla y Díez de Oñate13 January 188811 December 18881st term.
Thomás O'Ryan y Vázquez11 December 188813 November 1890
Luis Dabán y Ramírez de Arellano14 November 189022 January 1892
Romualdo Palacio González30 January 18928 February 1899
José Chinchilla y Díez de Oñate8 February 18992 March 18992nd term.
Antonio Dabán y Ramírez de Arellano16 March 189927 July 1901
Federico Ochando27 July 190130 August 1902
Luis de Pando y Sánchez30 August 190213 July 1903
Camilo García de Polavieja13 July 190323 November 1903
Arsenio Linares y Pombo23 November 19036 December 1903
Vicente Martitegui7 December 190328 January 19051st term.
Joaquín Sánchez Gómez28 January 190525 August 1910
Vicente Martitegui25 August 191025 January 19122nd term.
Ángel Aznar y Butigieg31 January 19123 March 1913
Ramón Echagüe y Méndez Vigo3 March 191330 October 1913
Agustín de Luque y Coca30 October 191310 December 19151st term.
Enrique de Orozco10 December 191523 July 1916
Antonio Tovar y Marcoleta23 July 191620 April 1917
Agustín de Luque y Coca20 April 191726 June 19172nd term
Salvador Arizón y Sánchez Fano26 June 19176 December 1918
Juan Zubia y Bassecourt6 December 191826 March 1925
Ricardo Burguete Lana27 March 19253 November 1928
José Sanjurjo3 November 19283 February 1932Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic (14 April 1931).
Miguel Cabanellas3 February 193215 August 19321st term.
Cecilio Bedia de la Cavallería15 August 193215 February 1935Asturian miners' strike of 1934.
Miguel Cabanellas15 February 19357 January 19362nd term.
Sebastián Pozas Perea7 January 193624 July 1936Remained loyal to the Republic following the Spanish coup of July 1936.
Spanish Civil War[n. 1]
Eliseo Álvarez-Arenas Romero6 September 193913 April 1942Integration of the Carabineros into the Civil Guard (1940).[4]
Enrique Cánovas Lacruz13 April 19421 July 1943
Camilo Alonso Vega24 July 194330 May 1955Longest-serving Director General of the Civil Guard.
Pablo Martín Alonso30 June 19558 February 1957
Eduardo Sáenz de Buruaga8 February 195723 April 1959
Antonio Alcubilla Pérez23 April 19597 December 1962Creation of the Traffic Grouping [es] (1959).[5]
Luis Zanón Aldalur10 December 196231 December 1965
Ángel Ramírez de Cartagena y Marcaida14 January 196621 September 1967
Antonio Cores Fernández de Cañete6 October 196722 January 1969
Luis Díez-Alegría7 March 196913 January 1972
Carlos Iniesta Cano21 January 197213 May 1974Assassination of Luis Carrero Blanco (20 December 1973).
José Miguel Vega Rodríguez17 May 197410 October 1975
Ángel Campano López10 October 197523 December 1976Death of Caudillo Francisco Franco (20 November 1975) and the Montejurra massacre (9 May 1976).
Antonio Ibáñez Freire23 December 19762 May 19781977 Atocha massacre.
Carlos Oliete Sánchez2 May 19782 July 1979
Pedro Fontenla Fernández2 July 197919 April 1980
José Luis Aramburu Topete24 April 198026 October 19831981 coup attempt (23F), led by Lt. Col. Antonio Tejero of the Civil Guard.
José Antonio Sáenz de Santa María2 November 19833 October 1986
Luis Roldán31 October 19863 December 1993
Ferrán Cardenal de Alemany3 December 19937 May 1996
Santiago López Valdivielso7 May 199630 April 20042004 Madrid train bombings.
Carlos Gómez Arruche30 April 200428 April 2006
Joan Mesquida Ferrando28 April 200621 April 2008Unified command of the National Police Corps and the Civil Guard. Simultaneously served as the Director General of the Police.
Francisco Javier Velázquez21 April 200831 December 2011
Arsenio Fernández de Mesa3 January 201218 November 2016
José Manuel Holgado Merino18 November 201629 June 20182017 Barcelona attacks and the 2017–2018 constitutional crisis.
Félix Vicente Azón Vilas29 June 201818 January 2020
María Gámez Gámez18 January 202028 March 2023First woman to hold this office.
Mercedes González Fernández28 March 2023Incumbent
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Notes

  1. [N 1]
    During the Spanish Civil War, the leadership of the Civil Guard was split between the warring factions. Within the Republican faction, General José Sanjurjo y Rodríguez de Arias [es] assumed the leadership, until the reconstitution of the body into the National Republican Guard. Within the Nationalist faction, General Federico de la Cruz Boullosa temporarily assumed the position of Inspector General,[1] being succeeded by generals Marcial Barro García (1936–1937),[2] Ricardo Serrador Santés (1937) and Emilio Fernández Pérez (1937–1939).[3]

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