Romanian Ministry of National Defense
Coat of arms of the Romanian Ministry of Defense
First:	General Ion Emanoil Florescu as Minister of War (Ministru de Război)
Formation:	28 November 1858
Incumbent since 22 December 2008	Mihai Stănişoară
Website	www.mapn.ro

The Ministry of National Defense (Romanian: Ministerul Apărării Naţionale) is one of the nineteen ministries of the Government of Romania.

As of 2008^[update] the Minister of Defense is Mihai Stănişoară, member of the Democratic Liberal Party.

Contents 1 Ministry 2 Structure and function 3 List of Ministers 4 See also 5 External links

[edit] Ministry

The Ministry of National Defense is the specialized body of the central public administration submitted to the Government conducting the national defense activity according to the stipulations of law and to the strategy of national security, with a view to safeguarding national sovereignty, state independence and unity, territorial integrity and constitutional democracy.

The Ministry of National Defense is responsible to the Parliament, the Supreme Council of National Defense and the Government for implementation of provisions of the Constitution, laws in force, decisions of the Supreme Council of National Defense and of the Government, of international treaties ratified by Romania in fields of its activity.

[edit] Structure and function

The Ministry of National Defense is structured on central structures. MoND central structures subordinated to the minister of National Defense:

• Department of Euro-Atlantic Integration and Defense Policy

Coordinates the Euro-Atlantic integration process and the development of military international relations, is in charge of the defense policy enforcement, ensures the integrated defense planning and controls the research activity in its area of responsibility.

Department of Relations with the Parliament, Legislative Harmonization and Public Relations

Ensures the relations with the Parliament, other public authorities and NGOs, coordinates the legislative activity, presents the drafts of laws in the Parliament, coordinates the process of harmonization with defense stipulations of the NATO and UE members, coordinates the public relations and the research activity in its area of responsibility.

• Armaments Department

Is in charge with military acquisitions and coordinates the research in its area of responsibility.

• General Staff

Ensures the military management of the Armed Forces, is in charge with the combat capacity of the Armed Forces, fulfills the programs of Euro-Atlantic integration and political-military cooperation for its own structures and controls the research activity in its area of responsibility.

The General Staff is headed by the chief of the General Staff, named by the President of Romania at the suggestion of the minister of National Defense and the Prime Minister's approval.

The chief of the General Staff is the highest military rank in the Armed Forces.

A Committee of chiefs of staffs with deliberative role is established at the General Staff level.

Its organization and function are established by the rule approved by order of the minister of National Defense.

• Inspectorate of the Ministry of National Defense

The structure through which the minister of National Defense exercises the control and evaluates the activities developed in the Armed Forces.

The Inspectorate organizes and controls the environment and labor protection, technical and metrological overwatch.

The Inspectorate is managed by the general inspector designated by order of minister of National Defense.

• General Secretariat

Controls the subordinated directorates and services established by order of minister of National Defense and ensures the secretariat, administrative and protocol works at the minister level.

The General Secretariat is headed by the general secretary, a civil servant, nominalized by order of minister of National Defense.

• Defence Intelligence General Directorate

The specialized structure for gathering, processing, confirming, stocking (filing) and evaluating the internal and external military and non military risks and threats affecting the national security; also in charge of developing the intelligence security concept , the cryptographic activity and ensuring the geographic data required by the Armed Forces. Defence Intelligence General Directorate is headed by a general director appointed by the decision of the Prime Minister at the recommendation of the Minister of National Defence.

• Human Resources Management Directorate

The specialised structure in elaborating the politics, strategies and rules in professionalised human resources management.

• Financial-Accounting Directorate

The MoND specialized structure ensuring the fulfillment of economic, financial-accounting activities of the minister as the chief accountant.

• Internal Audit Directorate

The specialized structure of endogenous and expost verifications on patrimony administration and use of the public money according to the criteria of efficiency and economy.

The minister of National Defense also has in his subordination: - counselors of minister; - diplomatic counselor; - minister's cabinet; - control body of the minister. - The Military Courts Directorate and the Military Prosecutor's Section are subordinated to the minister of National Defense only regarding the aspects established by common order of minister of National Defense, minister of Justice and General Prosecutor.

The Ministry of National Defense subordinates the service staffs, commands, directorates, education and research institutes, formations and other structures.

The Ministry of National Defense is leaded and represented by the minister of National Defense. The minister of National Defense in exercising the leadership is assisted by State Secretaries and chief of the General Staff.

At the Ministry of National Defense level exist: - College of Ministry of National Defense with consultative role; - Council of Defense Planning with deliberative role.

[edit] List of Ministers

Minister Title	No.	Name	Term start	Term end	Cabinet	Party
United Principalities
Minister of War Ministru de Război	1	Prince Ioan Grigore Ghicai	19 July 1861	29 September 1862
	2	General Ion Emanoil Florescui	30 August 1862	11 October 1863
	3	General Alexandru Iacovache	12 October 1863	11 April 1864
	4	General Savel Manu	12 April 1864	29 January 1866
	5	Colonel Alexandru Solomon	30 January 1866	10 February 1866
	6	Maior Dimitrie Leccai	11 February 1866	10 May 1866
	7	Prince Ioan Grigore Ghicaii	11 May 1866	5 August 1866
	8	Colonel Nicolae Haralambie	6 August 1866	7 February 1867
	9	General Tobias Gherghely	8 February 1867	23 May 1867
	10	General Gheorghe Adrian	24 May 1867	11 August 1868
	11	Ion C. Brătianui	12 August 1868	15 November 1868		PNL
	12	Colonel Ioan Duca	16 November 1868	13 January 1869
	13	General Gheorghe Manui	14 July 1869	17 December 1870
	14	Colonel Pencovici Eustasie	18 December 1870	10 March 1871
	15	General Christian Tell	11 March 1871	13 March 1871
	16	General Ion Emanoil Florescuii	14 March 1871	26 April 1876
	17	General Gheorghe Slăniceanu	27 April 1876	1 April 1877
	18	General Alexandru Cernati	2 April 1877	19 August 1877
	19	General Alexandru Cernatii	19 March 1878	24 November 1878
	20	Colonel Nicolae Dabija	8 January 1879	10 July 1879
	21	Major Dimitrie Leccaii	11 July 1879	28 April 1880
Kingdom of Romania
Minister of War Ministru de Război	22	Ion C. Brătianuii	1 August 1882	22 June 1884		PNL
	23	General Ştefan Fălcoianu	23 July 1884	12 January 1886
	24	General Alexandru Anghelescu	21 February 1886	4 November 1887
	25	Ion C. Brătianuiii	5 November 1887	23 March 1888		PNL
	26	General Constantin Barozzi	23 March 1888	11 November 1888
	27	General Gheorghe Manuii	12 November 1888	04 November 1889
	28	General Matei Vlădescu	05 November 1889	20 February 1891
	29	General Iacob Lahovaryi	21 February 1891	21 February 1894
	30	Lascăr Catargiu	22 February 1894	11 June 1894		PC
	31	Constantin Poenaru	12 June 1894	3 October 1895
	32	Constantin I. Stoicescu	21 November 1896	24 November 1896
	33	General Anton Berindei	25 November 1896	10 April 1899
	34	General Iacob Lahovaryii	11 April 1899	13 February 1901
	35	D. A. Sturza	14 February 1901	21 December 1904		PNL
	36	General Gheorghe Manuiii	22 December 1904	11 March 1906
	37	General Alexandru Averescu	13 March 1906	3 March 1909
	38	Toma Stelian	4 March 1909	31 October 1909
	39	General Grigore Crăiniceanu	1 November 1909	28 December 1910
	40	Nicolae Filipescu	29 December 1910	27 March 1912
	41	General Ioan Argetoianu	29 March 1912	13 October 1912
	42	General Constantin Harjeui	14 October 1912	3 January 1914
	43	Ion I. C. Brătianui	4 January 1914	14 August 1916		PNL
	44	Vintilă Brătianui	15 August 1916	9 July 1917		PNL
	45	Vintilă Brătianuii	9 July 1917	19 July 1917		PNL
	46	General Constantin Iancovescu	20 July 1917	5 March 1918
	47	General Constantin Harjeuii	6 March 1928	23 October 1918
	48	General Eremia Grigorescu	24 October 1918	28 November 1918
	49	General Arthur Văitoianu	29 November 1918	26 September 1919
	50	General Ioan Răşcanui	27 September 1919	1 March 1920
	51	General Traian Moşoiu	2 March 1920	11 March 1920
	52	General Ioan Răşcanuii	12 March 1920	15 December 1921
	53	General Ştefan Holban	17 December 1921	18 January 1922
	54	Ion I. C. Brătianuii	19 January 1922	19 April 1922		PNL
	55	General Gheorghe Mărdărescu	20 April 1922	29 March 1926
	56	General Ludovic Mircescu	30 March 12926	3 June 1927
	57	General Paul Angelescui	4 June 1927	9 November 1928
	58	General Henry Cihoschi	10 November 1928	4 April 1930
	59	Iuliu Maniu	5 April 1930	13 April 1930		PNŢ
	60	General Nicolae Condeescu	14 April 1930	18 April 1931
	61	General Amza C. Ştefănescu	19 April 1931	11 August 1932
	62	General Nicolae Samsonovici	11 August 1932	14 November 1933
	63	General Nicolae Uica	14 November 1933	1 June 1934
	65	Gherorghe Tătărescu	1 June 1934	26 July 1934		PNL
	66	General Paul Anghelescuii	27 July 1934	8 August 1937
	67	Aviation General Radu Irimescu	28 August 1937	4 September 1937
	68	Division General Constantin Ilasievici	4 September 1937	27 December 1937
	69	Division General Ion Antonescui	28 December 1937	30 March 1938		Mil
	70	Division General Gheorghe Argeşanu	30 March 1938	13 October 1938
	71	Division General Nicolae Ciupercă	13 October 1938	1 February 1939
	72	Armand Călinescu	1 February 1939	21 September 1939
	73	Army Corps General Ioan Ilcuşu	21 September 1939	4 July 1940
	74	General Constantin nicolaescu	4 July 1940	6 September 1940
	75	Division General Ion Antonescuii	6 September 1940	27 January 1941		Mil
	76	General Iosif Iacobici	27 January 1941	22 September 1942
	77	Division General Ion Antonescuiii	22 September 1941	23 January 1942		Mil.
	78	General Constantin Pantazi	23 January 1942	23 August 1944		Mil.
	79	Army Corps General Ioan-Mihai Racoviţă	24 August 1944	5 November 1944		Mil.
	80	Army Corps General Constantin Sănătescu	6 November 1944	6 December 1944		Mil.
	81	Army Corps General Ion Negulescu	7 December 1944	6 March 1945		Mil.
	82	Army Corps General Vasile-Constantin Vasiliu-Rascanu	7 March 1945	29 November 1946		Mil.
	83	Army Corps General Mihail Lascăr	29 November 1946	27 December 1947		Mil.
Communist Romania
Minister of War Ministru de Război	84	Army General Emil Bodnăraş	27 December 1947	3 October 1955		Mil./PMR
Minister of National Defense Ministrul Apărării Naţionale	85	Army General Leontin Sălăjan	3 October 1965	28 August 1966		Mil./PCR
	86	Army General Ioan Ioniţă	29 October 1966	16 June 1976		Mil.
	87	Colonel General Ioan Coman	16 June 1976	29 March 1980		Mil.
	88	Colonel General Constantin Olteanu	29 March 1980	16 December 1985		Mil.
	89	Colonel General Vasile Milea	16 December 1985	22 December 1989		Mil.
Romania since 1989
Minister of National Defense Ministrul Apărării Naţionale	90	Army General Nicolae Miliaru	22 December 1989	16 February 1990		Mil.
	91	Army General Victor Stănculescu	16 February 1990	29 April 1991		Mil.
	92	Lieutenant General Niculae Spiroiu	30 April 1991	6 March 1994		Mil.
	93	Gheorghe Tinca	6 March 1994	12 December 1996	Văcăroiu I
	94	Victor Babiuc	12 December 1996	11 February 1998		PD
	95	Constantin Dudu Ionescu	12 February 1998	16 April 1998		PNŢCD
	96	Victor Babiuc	16 April 1998	13 March 2000		PD
	97	Sorin Frunzăverdei	13 March 2000	28 December 2000	Isărescu I	PD
	98	Ioan Mircea Paşcu	28 December 2000	28 December 2004	Năstase I	PDSR/PSD
	99	Teodor Atanasiu	28 December 2004	25 October 2006	Tăriceanu I	PNL
Minister of Defense Ministrul Apărării	100	Sorin Frunzăverdeii	25 October 2006	10 April 2007	Tăriceanu I	PD
	101	Teodor Meleşcanu	10 April 2007	22 December 2008	Tăriceanu II	PNL
Minister of National Defense Ministrul Apărării Naţionale	102	Mihai Stănişoară	22 December 2008		Boc I	PD-L

Romania used the Julian calendar until 1919, but all dates are given in the Gregorian calendar.

The following party abbreviations are used:

PNL = National Liberal Party	PC = Conservative Party
PNR = Romanian National Party	PP = People's Party
PCD = Conservative-Democratic Party	PNŢ = National Peasants' Party
PND = Democratic Nationalist Party	PNC = National Christian Party
FRN = National Renaissance Front (from 1940 PN; Party of the Nation)	FP = Ploughmen's Front
PMR = Romanian Workers' Party (from 1965 PCR; Romanian Communist Party)	FSN = National Salvation Front
PDSR = Party of Social Democracy in Romania (from 2001 PSD; Social Democratic Party)	PNŢCD = Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party
PSDR = Romanian Social Democratic Party	PD = Democratic Party
	PD-L = Democratic Liberal Party
Mil. = Military	Ind. = Independent

[edit] See also

• Romanian Armed Forces
• Direcţia Generală de Informaţii a Apărării
• Detaşamentul de Intervenţie Rapidă

[edit] External links

• Official site
• Official site of the Government of Romania
• MApN website

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