Holders of The Post
| Name |
Branch |
Term began |
Term ended |
|---|---|---|---|
| Major General Otto Ruge | Army | 18 May 1940 | 9 June 1940 |
| Vacant (de facto Major General Carl Gustav Fleischer) |
10 June 1940 | 22 February 1942 | |
| Major General Wilhelm von Tangen Hansteen | Army | 23 February 1942 | 31 June 1944 |
| HRH Crown Prince Olav | Army | 1 July 1944 | 15 July 1945 |
| Lieutenant General Otto Ruge | Army | 16 July 1945 | 31 December 1945 |
| Rear Admiral Elias Corneliussen | Navy | 1 January 1946 | 31 May 1946 |
| Major General Halvor Hansson | Army | 1 June 1946 | 31 July 1946 |
| Lieutenant General Ole Berg (as Chief of the Defence Staff) |
Army | 1 August 1946 | 31 October 1955 |
| Lieutenant General Finn Lambrechts (as Chief of the Defence Staff) |
Air Force | 1 November 1955 | 8 December 1956 |
| Lieutenant General Bjarne Øen (as Chief of the Defence Staff) |
Air Force | 10 January 1957 | 31 December 1962 |
| Lieutenant General Bjarne Øen | Air Force | 1 January 1963 | 31 December 1963 |
| (Vice) Admiral Folke Hauger Johannessen | Navy | 1 January 1964 | 31 December 1972 |
| General Herman Fredrik Zeiner-Gundersen | Army | 1 February 1972 | 20 March 1977 |
| General Sverre B. Hamre | Army | 21 March 1977 | 30 June 1982 |
| General Sven Hauge | Air Force | 1 July 1982 | 30 June 1984 |
| General Fredrik Bull-Hansen | Army | 1 July 1984 | 31 August 1987 |
| General Vigleik Eide | Army | 31 August 1987 | 5 September 1989 |
| Admiral Torolf Rein | Navy | 5 September 1989 | 31 October 1994 |
| General Arne Solli | Army | 31 October 1994 | 30 April 1999 |
| General Sigurd Frisvold | Army | 1 May 1999 | 31 March 2005 |
| General Sverre Diesen | Army | 1 April 2005 | 30 September 2009 |
| General Harald Sunde | Army | 1 October 2009 | Incumbent |
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