Home Guard Command (Denmark)
# 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.

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 | Johnstad-Møller, ErikMajor general Erik Johnstad-Møller [da] (1894–1982) de facto from 1948 | 1 April 1949 | 1959 | 9–10 years |
| 2 | Digmann, PovlMajor general Povl Martin Digmann (1900–1969) | 1959 | 1965 | 5–6 years |
| 3 | Permin, Ole-ChristianMajor general Ole-Christian Permin [da] (1913–1995) | 1965 | 1977 | 11–12 years |
| 4 | Andreassen, JørgenMajor general Jørgen Andreassen (1919–1999) | 1977 | 1984 | 6–7 years |
| 5 | Gottlieb, RudMajor general Rud Gottlieb | 1984 | 1993 | 8–9 years |
| 6 | Nilsson, JørgenMajor general Jørgen Sverker Nilsson [da] (born 1938) | 1993 | 28 February 1998 | 4–5 years |
| 7 | Scheibye, UlfMajor general Ulf Scheibye [da] (born 1944) | 1 March 1998 | 31 July 2004 | 6 years, 152 days |
| 8 | Norgaard, JanMajor general Jan Norgaard [da] (born 1950) | 1 August 2004 | 30 April 2010 | 5 years, 272 days |
| 9 | Winkler, FinnMajor general Finn Winkler (born 1957) | 1 May 2010 | 31 July 2017 | 7 years, 91 days |
| 10 | Garly, JensMajor general Jens Garly (born 1962) | 1 August 2017 | Incumbent | 5 years, 360 days |
