/ , native_name_a = sl, Ministrstvo za obrambo , native_name_r = mk, Министерство за одбрана , type = Ministry , seal = Standard of the Minister of Defense of Serbia and Montenegro.svg , seal_width = , seal_caption = Standard of the Minister of Defence , logo = , logo_width = , logo_caption = , image = Serb-milit-bomb-nato.jpg , image_size = , image_caption = The Yugoslav Ministry of Defence building , formed = , preceding1 = , preceding2 = , dissolved = , superseding1 = , superseding2 = , jurisdiction =

Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label= Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavij ...

Serbia and Montenegro Serbia and Montenegro ( sr, Cрбија и Црна Гора, translit=Srbija i Crna Gora) was a country in Southeast Europe located in the Balkans that existed from 1992 to 2006, following the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yug ...

, headquarters = Yugoslav Ministry of Defence building,

Belgrade Belgrade ( , ;, ; names in other languages) is the capital and largest city in Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and the crossroads of the Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. Nearly 1,166,763 m ...

, coordinates = , motto = , employees = , budget = , minister1_name = General Mihailo Rašić , minister1_pfo = first Minister of Defence , minister2_name = Major general Zoran Stanković , minister2_pfo = last Minister of Defence , deputyminister1_name = , deputyminister1_pfo = , deputyminister2_name = , deputyminister2_pfo = , chief1_name = , chief1_position = , chief2_name = , chief2_position = , public_protector = , deputy = , parent_department = Federal Executive Council , parent_agency = , parent_agency_type = , child1_agency = , child2_agency = , keydocument1 = , website = , agency_id = , map = , map_size = , map_caption = , footnotes = , embed = Through the history of

, the defence ministry which was responsible for defence of the country was known under several different names. The Ministry of the Army and Navy was responsible for defence of the

Kingdom of Yugoslavia The Kingdom of Yugoslavia ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Kraljevina Jugoslavija, Краљевина Југославија; sl, Kraljevina Jugoslavija) was a state in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 until 1941. From 19 ...

from 1918 to 1941, the Federal Secretariat of People's Defence for the

Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, commonly referred to as SFR Yugoslavia or simply as Yugoslavia, was a country in Central and Southeast Europe. It emerged in 1945, following World War II, and lasted until 1992, with the breakup of Yu ...

from 1945 to 1992 and the Ministry of Defence for

(officially named the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia between 1992 and 2003) from 1992 to 2006.

List of ministers

† denotes people who died in office.

Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918–1941)

;Minister of the Army ;Minister of the Army and Navy

Yugoslav government-in-exile (1941–1945)

;Minister of the Army and Navy ;Minister of the Army ;Minister of the Air Force and Navy ;Minister of the Army, Navy and Air Force

National Committee for the Liberation of Yugoslavia (1943–1945)

SFR Yugoslavia (1945–1992)

The Federal Secretary of People's Defence of the

(

Serbo-Croatian Serbo-Croatian () – also called Serbo-Croat (), Serbo-Croat-Bosnian (SCB), Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian (BCS), and Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS) – is a South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia a ...

, Croatian,

Serbian Serbian may refer to: * someone or something related to Serbia, a country in Southeastern Europe * someone or something related to the Serbs, a South Slavic people * Serbian language * Serbian names See also * * * Old Serbian (disambiguat ...

, mk, Savezni sekretar za narodnu odbranu SFRJ,

Cyrillic The Cyrillic script ( ), Slavonic script or the Slavic script, is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and Iranic-speaking cou ...

: Савезни секретар за народну одбрану СФРЈ) was that country's

defence minister A defence minister or minister of defence is a cabinet official position in charge of a ministry of defense, which regulates the armed forces in sovereign states. The role of a defence minister varies considerably from country to country; in s ...

during its existence from 1945 to 1992. He was the head of the Federal Secretariat of People's Defence (''Savezni sekretarijat za narodnu odbranu - SSNO'') and it was the most effective military person, Minister of Defence had the highest rank in the army (General of the Army) except Marshal Tito. It was the part of the Federal Executive Council (Federal Government).

Timeline

ImageSize = width:1000 height:auto barincrement:10 PlotArea = top:10 bottom:50 right:160 left:20 AlignBars = late DateFormat = yyyy Period = from:1945 till:1995 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:5 start:1945 Colors = id:fspd value:rgb(1,0,0) legend: Federal_Secretary id:afspd value:rgb(0.7,0.7,0.7) legend: Acting_Federal_Secretary id:time value:rgb(0.9,0.9,0.9) Legend = orientation:vertical position:right LineData = layer:back width:0.1 color:time at:1945 at:1950 at:1955 at:1960 at:1965 at:1970 at:1975 at:1980 at:1985 at:1990 at:1995 BarData = barset:PM bar:tito bar:gosnjak bar:ljubicic bar:mamula bar:kadijevic bar:adzic bar:pantic PlotData= width:6 align:left fontsize:S shift:(5,-4) anchor:till barset:PM bar:tito from:1945 till:1953 color:fspd text:" Tito" bar:gosnjak from:1953 till:1967 color:fspd text:" Gošnjak" bar:ljubicic from:1967 till:1982 color:fspd text:" Ljubičić" bar:mamula from:1982 till:1988 color:fspd text:" Mamula" bar:kadijevic from:1988 till:1992 color:fspd text:" Kadijević" bar:adzic from:1992 till:1992 color:afspd text:" Adžić" bar:pantic from:1992 till:1992 color:afspd text:" Panić"

FR Yugoslavia / Serbia and Montenegro (1992–2006)

Following the

breakup of Yugoslavia The breakup of Yugoslavia occurred as a result of a series of political upheavals and conflicts during the early 1990s. After a period of political and economic crisis in the 1980s, constituent republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yu ...

and the secession of four out of six constituent republic in the SFR Yugoslavia the remaining two (

Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin and the Balkans. It shares land borders with Hun ...

and

Montenegro ) , image_map = Europe-Montenegro.svg , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital = Podgorica , coordinates = , largest_city = capital , official_languages = M ...

) established a federation in 1992 called the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FR Yugoslavia). This lasted until 2003 when it was reconstituted as a state union called

. In 2006 both countries declared independence and parted ways.

Standards

File:Standard of the Minister of Defence of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.svg, Standard of the Minister of Defence of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. File:Standard of the Minister of the Army and Navy of Yugoslavia (1937–1944).svg, Standard of the Minister of the Army and Navy of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia 1937–1944. File:Standard of the Minister of the Army and Navy of Yugoslavia (1944–1945).svg, Standard of the Minister of the Army and Navy of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia 1944–1945. File:Standard of the Federal Secretary of People's Defence of Yugoslavia (1956–1963).png, Standard of the Federal Secretary of People's Defence of the SFR Yugoslavia 1956–1963. File:Standard of the Federal Secretary of People's Defence of Yugoslavia (1963–1993).png, Standard of the Federal Secretary of People's Defence of the SFR Yugoslavia 1963–1993.

Notes

External links

List of ministers
at Rulers.org

{{Minister of Defence of SCG Government of Yugoslavia

Military of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia Military of SFR Yugoslavia Military of Serbia and Montenegro 1918 establishments in Yugoslavia 2006 disestablishments in Serbia and Montenegro