Home Guard Command (Denmark)

Home Guard Command (Danish: Hjemmeværnskommandoen), is the Danish Home Guard's top authority and is a level one authority reporting directly to the Ministry of Defence.

Home Guard Command
Hjemmeværnskommandoen
Danish Home Guard Command logo
Active	1 April 1949
Country	Kingdom of Denmark
Branch	Joined/shared
Part of	Ministry of Defence
Headquarters	Vordingborg Kaserne
Website	Official Website
Commanders
The Commanding General of The Home Guard	Major general Jens Garly[1]
The Commissioner of The Home Guard	Søren Espersen[1]

The Home Guard is a volunteer military organization offering a permanent state of readiness. The task of the Home Guard is to support the armed forces - nationally as well as internationally. In addition to this, the Home Guard supports the police, the emergency services, and other civilian authorities. The Home Guard contributes internationally with guard duty, build-up of military capacity, and support to civilian reconstruction.

The Home Guard has a combined military and civilian leadership. The Commanding General of the Home Guard is responsible for the training and posting of units and managing the Home Guard. The Commissioner of the Home Guard is responsible for recruitment and the public support to the Home Guard in Denmark and general defence in the Danish community.

In times of tension and war the Danish Defence Command assume command over the activated Home Guard units.

Until 2014, the Home Guard Command was located at Generalstok in Kastellet, in Copenhagen. It was then temporarily relocated to Søkvæsthuset in central Copenhagen. From August 2015, it will be placed at Vordingborg Barracks.

Chiefs of the Home Guard

No.		Chief of the Home Guard	Took office	Left office	Time in office
1		Major general Erik Johnstad-Møller (1894–1982) de facto from 1948	1 April 1949	1959	9–10 years
2		Major general Povl Martin Digmann (1900–1969)	1959	1965	5–6 years
3		Major general Ole-Christian Permin (1913–1995)	1965	1977	11–12 years
4		Major general Jørgen Andreassen (1919–1999)	1977	1984	6–7 years
5		Major general Rud Gottlieb	1984	1993	8–9 years
6		Major general Jørgen Sverker Nilsson (born 1938)	1993	28 February 1998	4–5 years
7		Major general Ulf Scheibye (born 1944)	1 March 1998	31 July 2004	6 years, 152 days
8		Major general Jan Norgaard (born 1950)	1 August 2004	30 April 2010	5 years, 272 days
9		Major general Finn Winkler (born 1957)	1 May 2010	31 July 2017	7 years, 91 days
10		Major general Jens Garly (born 1962)	1 August 2017	Incumbent	3 years, 187 days

References

1. "The Home Guard Management" (in Danish). Retrieved 6 October 2017.