Chief of Army (Sweden)


Chief of Army (Sweden)


The Chief of Army (Swedish: arméchef, lit. 'Army Chief', AC) is the most senior appointment in the Swedish Army. The position Chief of Army was introduced in 1937 and the current form in 2014.

History

In 1937, the staff agency "Chief of the Army" (Swedish: Chefen för armén, CA) was created to lead the army in peace time. The CA would under the King in Council exercise the highest military leadership of the Land Defense (Swedish: Lantförsvaret). At his side, the CA had an Army Staff to assist the CA in his duties. Before 1937 the Chief of the General Staff was considered to be the Chief of Army, but he was not usually to the rank of chief, but formally only the king's chief of staff in his capacity as Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces. The oldest general was chairman of the special preparatory body called the Generals Commission (Generalskommissionen).

Following a larger reorganization of the Swedish Armed Forces in 1994, the staff agency Chief of the Army ceased to exist as an independent agency. Instead, the post Chief of Army Command (Swedish: Chefen för arméledningen) was created at the then newly instituted Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters. In 1998, the Swedish Armed Forces was again reorganized. Most of the duties of the Chief of Army Command were transferred to the newly instituted post of "Inspector General of the Army" (Swedish: generalinspektören för armén). The post is similar to that of the "Inspector General of the Swedish Navy" (Swedish: Generalinspektören för marinen) and the "Inspector General of the Swedish Air Force" (Swedish: Generalinspektören för flygvapnet). It was later renamed to "Inspector of the Army" (Swedish: Arméinspektören) on 1 January 2003. The position of Inspector of the Army had previously been used in from 1942 to 1949 for the head of the Army Inspectorate (Arméinspektionen).

On 1 January 2014, the "Chief of Army" (Swedish: Arméchefen, AC) position was reinstated in the Swedish Armed Forces. The position has not the same duties as before.

Tasks

Tasks of the Chief of Army:

  • Lead the units which the Chief of Swedish Armed Forces Training and Development has distributed
  • To the Chief of Swedish Armed Forces Training and Development propose the development of the units' abilities
  • Being the foremost representative of the units
  • Represent the units and the area of ability in international contacts

Heraldry

The command flag of the Chief of Army is drawn by Brita Grep and embroidered by hand by the Kedja studio, Heraldica. Blazon: "Fessed in yellow and blue; on yellow two blue batons of command with sets of yellow crowns placed two and one in saltire, on blue two yellow swords in saltire."

List of chiefs

List of deputy chiefs

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See also

  • Chief of Air Force
  • Chief of Navy

Footnotes

References

Notes

Print

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  • Jarmar, Håkan (2005). Wedin, Lars; Åselius, Gunnar (eds.). "Torsten Rapp som ÖB: En studie av maktens fördelning inom det militära försvaret under 1960-talet". Militärhistorisk tidskrift. 2005 (in Swedish). Stockholm: Militärhistoriska avdelningen, Försvarshögskolan. ISSN 0283-8400. SELIBR 10098614.
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  • Skoglund, Claës (2009). Det bästa försvarsbeslut som aldrig kom till stånd: ett kontrafaktiskt uppslag (PDF). Publikation / Försvaret och det kalla kriget (FOKK), 1652-5388 ; 17 (in Swedish). Stockholm: Svenskt militärhistoriskt bibliotek. ISBN 9789185789573. SELIBR 11704940. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 August 2018.
  • Wikland, Erik (1971–1973). "C A F Ivar Holmquist". Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (in Swedish). Vol. 19. National Archives of Sweden. p. 288. Retrieved 2017-04-25.

Newspapers

  • Grafström, Bengt (16 August 1963). "400 000 gick upp i rök på en halvtimme". Expressen (in Swedish). Retrieved 9 May 2020.
  • Lidén, Erik (26 August 1983). "ÖB kvar - armén får ny chef". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved 1 September 2022.
  • Olofson, Sune (27 March 1990). "Militären stöder Gorbatjov". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved 1 September 2022.
  • Tunberger, Johan (24 September 1976). "Arméchefen inför sin avgång: Byråkratiseringen tilltar oroväckande". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved 1 September 2022.
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  • "Armén" [The Army]. Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). 1937-07-15. Retrieved 5 March 2024.
  • "Armén" [The Army]. Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). 1938-10-09. Retrieved 5 March 2024.
  • "Armén" [The Army]. Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). 1939-06-23. Retrieved 5 March 2024.
  • "GENERAL JUNG Ö. B., general A. Douglas arméchef". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). 2 January 1944. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
  • "Nye arméchefen på studiebesök på SvD". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). 1 March 1984. Retrieved 1 September 2022.

Web

  • Nordgren, Annika; et al. (24 February 1998). "Motion till riksdagen 1997/98:Fö3" (in Swedish). Riksdag. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  • Wallberg, Evabritta (1987-01-13). "5. Arméstaben > Förteckning" (in Swedish). National Archives of Sweden. Retrieved 2015-07-28.

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