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Álvaro de Lacalle Leloup
Álvaro Lacalle Leloup, jefe de la JUJEM, en el Congreso de los Diputados (1982).jpg
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

(1918-10-29)29 October 1918
Haro, Logroño [es] (now La Rioja), Kingdom of Spain
Died 1 September 2004(2004-09-01) (aged 85)
Madrid, Spain
Military service
Allegiance  Nationalist Spain
 Nazi Germany
Branch/service  Spanish Army
 German Army (Wehrmacht)
Rank Lieutenant general
Battles/wars Spanish Civil War
World War II

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.

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