Teodoro Waldner | |
Office: | Chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Argentine Republic |
Term Start: | 8 March 1985 |
Term End: | 11 July 1989 |
Office1: | Chief of the General Staff of the Argentine Air Force |
Term Start1: | 14 December 1983 |
Term End1: | 5 March 1985 |
Predecessor1: | Augusto Hughes |
Successor1: | Ernesto Horacio Crespo |
Birth Date: | day=04 month=01 year=1927 |
Birth Place: | Córdoba Province, Argentina |
Death Place: | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Branch: | Argentine Air Force |
Allegiance: | Argentina |
Rank: | Brigadier general |
Serviceyears: | 1948–1989 |
Teodoro Guillermo Waldner (1927 – 2014)[1] was an Argentine General that served as the Chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Argentine Republic. He also served as the Chief of the General Staff of the Argentine Air Force
According to the Argentine newspaper El Diario, during the Falklands War, Waldner led a mission to Libya and brought back weapons and missiles from Gaddafi's regime.[2] After the war, in 1983 Waldner became the first head of the Air Force since the return of democracy to Argentina and was styled as a chief of staff as opposed to a commander-in-chief.[3] In 1985, Waldner was appointed as Chief of Joint Staff of the Armed Forces, a position he held until his retirement in 1989.[4]