Chef d'état-major de la marine

Chief of Staff of the French Navy Chef d'État-Major de la Marine
Logo of the French Navy
Chief of Staff of the Navy Naval Jack
Incumbent Admiral Bernard Rogel since 12 September 2011
French Navy
Member of	Chiefs of Staff Committee
Reports to	Minister of Defence Chief of the Defence Staff
Seat	Paris, France
Nominator	Minister of Defence
Appointer	President of the Republic Require Prime Minister's countersignature
Term length	No fixed term
Formation	1892
First holder	Alfred Gervais
Website	http://www.defense.gouv.fr/marine

The Chief of the Staff of the French Navy (French: , CEMM) is the head of the French Navy and is responsible to the Minister of Defence in relation to preparation and deployment.

CEMM as a naval expert, assists:

CEMM has authority over:

CEMM presides over the board of directors of the hydrographic and oceanographic service of the navy (SHOM).

Before World War I, the Chief of Staff of the French Navy (French: Le Chef d'état-major de la Marine, (CEMM)) was at first hand, the Military Cabinet Chief of the Minister of the Navy (French: Chef du cabinet militaire du ministre de La Marine), and this mode of functioning was at origin of the utilization designation; the Military figure which had effective authority on the French Navy (French: La Marine) was then, the Admiral (French: L'Amiral) commanding the armed naval force (French: Armée Navale), often designated as « Amiralissime », in reference to the title of « généralissime » utilized in the French Army (French: l'Armée de terre).

The First World War replaced all these functionalities in cause, with major incorporation of various tasks in order to conduct a long term industrial naval warfare in light of disposing and having the means to confront new menaces, mainly constituted by submarine warfare and mine explosions: in accordance, another sort of identical general staff headquarters directorate - (French: état-major bis) - was created and designated as the - Directorate General of Submarine Warfare (French: Direction Générale de la Guerre Sous-Marine, DGGSM) - with an action domain often described as redundant; this constituted redundancy logically led to the dissolving of the Directorate General of Submarine Warfare, DGGSM, at the end of First World War and the transfer of the various associated attribution prerogatives to the various bureaux of the general staff headquarters of the French Navy (French: bureaux de l'état-major général de la Marine).