title: Manuel Díez-Alegría
text: # Manuel Díez-Alegría
  
  Manuel Díez-Alegría Gutiérrez (25 July 1906 – 3 February 1987) was a Spanish military officer who served as Chief of the Defence High Command (Alto Estado Mayor, AEM) between 1970 and 1974, i.e., chief of staff of the Spanish Armed Forces during the Francoist dictatorship.
  
  ## Non-military positions
  
  Díez-Alegría served as Ambassador of Spain to Egypt between 1976 and 1978, during the Spanish transition to democracy.
  
  Additionally, he was a member of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences from 1968, the Royal Spanish Academy from 1980, and the Cortes Españolas (1970–1977).
  
  ## Awards
  
  * Grand Cross of the Royal and Military Order of Saint Hermenegild (1961)
  * Grand Cross (with White Decoration) of Military Merit (1964)
  * Grand Cross (with White Decoration) of Naval Merit (1968)
  * Grand Cross of the Imperial Order of the Yoke and Arrows (1969)
  * Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic (1970)
  * Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise (1971)
  * Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit (1977)
  