Fernando Alejandre Martínez Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

Fernando Alejandre Martínez (born 1956) is Spanish Army officer. A General of the Army, he served as the 10th Chief of the Defence Staff of Spain from 24 March 2017 to 15 January 2020, when was ceased and succeeded by Miguel Ángel Villarroya Vilalta.

Alejandre Martínez was born in 1956 in Madrid. He obtained the rank of lieutenant of engineers in 1979. On 24 March 2017 he was promoted to General of the Army.

He stopped at this destination on March 24, 2017, when it was announced that he would be named Chief of the Defence Staff. He was dismissed on January 15, 2020.

In October 2015, promoted to lieutenant general, he was assigned to the Brunssum base (Netherlands) as the deputy head of the NATO Joint Forces Command. This position was the one of greater rank of the NATO occupied by a Spanish military at that moment.

In 2010, he was promoted to brigadier general, and he was appointed head of the Operations Division of the General Staff of the Army. Two years later, as a division general, he was sent to the NATO Allied Military Headquarters in Europe (SHAPE) as the second chief of staff for resources.

During 2003, he was director of the KFOR Joint Operations Center at the Film City base in Pristina.

During 1994, once again abroad, he received the command of the Engineers of the Spanish Tactical Association sent to Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In 1991, he was among the liaison officers deployed to Incirlik’s Turkish base to organize the deployment of a Spanish contingent who provided humanitarian aid in northern Iraq during the Gulf War. He returned to the Parachute Brigade, before moving to the Army War School (at that time School of General Staff) to teach tactics.