List of commanders of the Escola de Comando e Estado-Maior do Exército

Last updated March 06, 2024

This is the list of commanders of the Escola de Comando e Estado-Maior do Exército (ECEME). Since 1905, ECEME has had 61 effective commanders. Among them, the most notable are the President Humberto de Alencar Castello Branco and ministers Nestor Sezefredo dos Passos, Henrique Teixeira Lott, Zenildo Gonzaga Zoroastro de Lucena, Ivan de Sousa Mendes and Sérgio Westphalen Etchegoyen.^[1]^[2]

Escola de Estado-Maior (1905-1955)

Number	Name	Begin	End
1	Major-General Miguel Maria Girard	January 26, 1906	October 1, 1907
2	Colonel Alfredo Cândido de Moraes Rêgo	October 8, 1907	October 3, 1910
3	Colonel Gabino Bezouro	October 3, 1910	April 20, 1914
4	Colonel Felinto Alcino Braga Cavalcante	April 20, 1914	August 11, 1916
5	Major-General Inácio de Alencastro Guimarães	August 11, 1916	January 14, 1918
6	Colonel Nestor Sezefredo dos Passos	March 15, 1920	February 9, 1921
7	Colonel Raymundo Pinto Seidl	February 16, 1921	May 1, 1923
8	Colonel Jonathas Borges Fortes	May 21, 1923	August 16, 1924
9	Colonel Augusto Limpo Teixeira de Freitas	August 19, 1924	November 17, 1926
10	Colonel Raymundo Rodrigues Barbosa	December 16, 1926	June 22, 1931
11	Colonel Christovão de Castro Barcellos	June 23, 1931	June 20, 1933
12	Colonel José Antonio Coelho Netto	June 20, 1933	October 4, 1934
13	Colonel Estevam Leitão de Carvalho	October 4, 1934	January 2, 1936
14	Colonel Isauro Reguera	January 2, 1936	January 10, 1938
15	Colonel Milton de Freitas Almeida	March 15, 1938	June 8, 1939
16	Colonel Renato Baptista Nunes	June 8, 1939	December 15, 1942
17	Colonel Henrique Baptista Duffles Teixeira Lott ^[3]	December 23, 1942	July 12, 1943
18	Colonel Fernando de Sabóia Bandeira de Mello	July 12, 1943	April 12, 1945
19	Major-General Francisco Gil Castello Branco	July 5, 1945	June 8, 1946
20	Major-General Tristão de Alencar Araripe	June 8, 1946	May 3, 1949
21	Major-General José Daudt Fabrício	May 3, 1949	April 1, 1952
22	Major-General João Valdetaro de Amorim e Mello	April 1, 1952	September 5, 1952
23	Major-General Antonio José Coelho dos Reis	October 30, 1952	August 27, 1954

Escola de Comando e Estado-Maior do Exército (1955-present)

Number	Name	Begin	End
24	Major-General Humberto de Alencar Castello Branco ^[4]	September 15, 1954	January 3, 1956
25	Major-General Emílio Maurell Filho	January 10, 1956	November 18, 1956
26	Major-General Hugo Panasco Alvim	February 28, 1958	January 19, 1960
27	Major-General Luiz Augusto da Silveira	January 19, 1960	September 4, 1961
28	Major-General Jurandyr de Bizarria Mamede	September 4, 1961	June 2, 1964
29	Major-General João Bina Machado	July 14, 1964	August 29, 1966
30	Lieutenant-General Reynaldo Mello de Almeida	November 18, 1966	May 7, 1969
31	Lieutenant-General Adolpho João de Paula Couto	May 7, 1969	February 12, 1970
32	Major-General Ariel Pacca da Fonseca	February 12, 1970	April 22, 1971
33	Major-General Roberto Alves de Carvalho Filho	April 22, 1971	February 10, 1972
34	Major-General Francisco de Mattos Junior	February 10, 1972	February 11, 1974
35	Major-General Alzir Benjamin Chaloub	February 11, 1974	January 30, 1976
36	Major-General Ivan de Souza Mendes	January 30, 1976	February 7, 1979
37	Lieutenant-General Diogo de Oliveira Figueiredo	February 7, 1979	February 2, 1982
38	Major-General Alberto dos Santos Lima Fajardo	February 2, 1982	January 28, 1983
39	Major-General Eduardo Cesar Lucena Barbosa	January 28, 1983	January 25, 1985
40	Major-General Zenildo Gonzaga Zoroastro de Lucena	January 25, 1985	January 27, 1987
41	Major-General Léo Ulysséa Lebarbenchon	January 27, 1987	December 18, 1987
42	Major-General Aricildes de Moraes Motta	December 18, 1987	April 20, 1990
43	Major-General Luciano Phaelante Casales	April 20, 1990	May 13, 1992
44	Major-General Sady Guilherme Schmidt	May 13, 1992	April 22, 1993
45	Major-General Reynaldo Paim Sampaio	April 22, 1993	January 25, 1995
46	Major-General Luiz Edmundo Montedônio Rêgo	January 25, 1995	February 5, 1998
47	Lieutenant-General Ricardo Barbalho Lamellas	February 5, 1998	January 28, 2000
48	Lieutenant-General Paulo Cesar de Castro	January 28, 2000	May 9, 2002
49	Major-General Lúcio Mário de Barros Góes	May 9, 2002	May 24, 2004
50	Major-General Luiz Eduardo Rocha Paiva	May 24, 2004	December 13, 2006
51	Lieutenant-General Sergio Westphalen Etchegoyen	December 13, 2006	April 6, 2009
52	Lieutenant-General João Camilo Pires de Campos	April 6, 2009	April 6, 2011
53	Major-General Sergio José Pereira	April 6, 2011	December 14, 2012
54	Major-General Walter Nilton Pina Stoffel	December 14, 2012	February 5, 2015
55	Lieutenant-General Elias Rodrigues Martins Filho	February 5, 2015	September 23, 2016
56	Major-General Richard Fernandez Nunes	September 23, 2016	March 16, 2018
57	Lieutenant-General Edson Diehl Ripoli	March 16, 2018	February 12, 2019
58	Major-General Rodrigo Pereira Vergara	February 12, 2019	September 9, 2020
59	Major-General Márcio de Souza Nunes Ribeiro	September 9, 2020	April 18, 2022
60	Major-General Sergio Manoel Martins Pereira Junior	April 18, 2022	December 14, 2023
61	Major-General Mario Eduardo Moura Sassone	December 14, 2023	-

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References

↑ "ECEME History". Archived from the original on April 14, 2018. Retrieved March 5, 2024.
↑ "ECEME Commanders" . Retrieved March 5, 2024.
↑ "Lott biography in Fundação Getúlio Vargas Web Page" . Retrieved September 16, 2018.
↑ "Castello Branco biography in Fundação Getúlio Vargas Web Page" . Retrieved September 16, 2018.

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[1] "ECEME History". Archived from the original on April 14, 2018. Retrieved March 5, 2024.

[2] "ECEME Commanders" . Retrieved March 5, 2024.

[3] "Lott biography in Fundação Getúlio Vargas Web Page" . Retrieved September 16, 2018.

[4] "Castello Branco biography in Fundação Getúlio Vargas Web Page" . Retrieved September 16, 2018.

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