Álvaro de Lacalle Leloup
Álvaro de Lacalle Leloup | |
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Álvaro de Lacalle Leloup in 1982 | |
| President of the Board of Joint Chiefs of Staff | |
| In office 15 January 1982 – 9 January 1984 | |
| Monarch | Juan Carlos I |
| Preceded by | Ignacio Alfaro Arregui |
| Succeeded by | Ángel Liberal Lucini (as Chief of the Defence Staff) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Álvaro de Lacalle Leloup 29 October 1918 |
| Died | 1 September 2004 (aged 85) |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Nationalist Spain |
| Branch/service | Spanish Army |
| Rank | Lieutenant general |
| Battles/wars | Spanish Civil War World War II |
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Álvaro de Lacalle Leloup (29 October 1918 – 1 September 2004) was a Spanish military officer who served as President of the Board of Joint Chiefs of Staff (Junta de Jefes de Estado Mayor, JUJEM) between 1982 and 1984, i.e., chief of staff of the Spanish Armed Forces at the time.
During the Spanish Civil War, Lacalle was a Carlist Requeté combatant for the Nationalist faction. During World War II, he was one of the volunteers of the so-called Blue Division (Spanish: División Azul, German: Blaue Division), or the 250th Infantry Division of the Wehrmacht; the division was sent to the Eastern Front by the Francoist regime to fight alongside Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union.