Chief of the Air Staff (Sweden)

The Chief of the Air Staff[1] (Swedish: Chefen för flygstaben, CFS, or Flygstabschef) was from 1936 to 1994 the second most senior member of the Swedish Air Force (after the Chief of the Air Force) and headed the Air Staff. The position was held by a senior member of Swedish Air Force. In 2019, the Air Staff was re-established and a Chief of the Air Staff was appointed again.

Chief of the Air Staff Chefen för flygstaben
Incumbent Colonel Dennis Hedström since 1 June 2019
Ministry of Defence
Type	Chief of the Air Staff
Abbreviation	CFS
Reports to	Chief of Air Force
Seat	Banérgatan 62-64, Stockholm (1943–1981) Lidingövägen 24, Stockholm (1981–1994) Ärna Air Base (2019–)
Term length	At Her Majesty's pleasure
Formation	1936, 2019
First holder	Lieutenant Colonel Bengt Nordenskiöld (1936) Colonel Anders Persson (2019)
Final holder	Major General Bernt Östh
Abolished	1994
Unofficial names	Flygstabschef
Deputy	Vice Chief of the Air Staff (1936–1994)

Chiefs of the Air Staff

Chiefs of the Air Staff (1936–1994)

No.	Portrait	Chief of the Air Staff	Took office	Left office	Time in office	Prime Minister	Ref
1		Lieutenant Colonel[lower-alpha 1] Bengt Nordenskiöld (1891–1983)	1 July 1936	1942	5–6 years	Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp Per Albin Hansson	[2]
2		Colonel[lower-alpha 2] Axel Ljungdahl (1897–1995)	1942	1947	4–5 years	Per Albin Hansson Tage Erlander	-
3		Colonel[lower-alpha 3] Gustaf Adolf Westring (1900–1963)	1947	1957	9–10 years	Tage Erlander	-
4		Major General Lennart Peyron (1909–1981)	1957	1960	2–3 years	Tage Erlander	-
5		Major General Stig Norén (1908–1996)	1960	1964	3–4 years	Tage Erlander	-
6		Major General Gösta Odqvist (1913–2005)	1964	1966	1–2 years	Tage Erlander	-
7		Major General Claës-Henrik Nordenskiöld (1917–2003)	1966	1970	3–4 years	Tage Erlander Olof Palme	-
8		Major General Dick Stenberg (1921–2004)	1 April 1970	30 September 1973	3 years, 182 days	Olof Palme	[3]
9		Major General Hans Neij (1921–1985)	1973	30 September 1978	4–5 years	Olof Palme Thorbjörn Fälldin	[4]
10		Major General Erik Nygren (1923–1999)	1 October 1978	30 September 1980	1 year, 365 days	Thorbjörn Fälldin Ola Ullsten	[4]
11		Major General Evert Båge (1925–2021)	1 October 1980	1984	3–4 years	Thorbjörn Fälldin Olof Palme	[4]
12		Major General Bengt Lönnbom (born 1933)	1984	1987	2–3 years	Olof Palme Ingvar Carlsson	-
13		Major General Bert Stenfeldt (born 1933)	1987	1990	2–3 years	Ingvar Carlsson	-
14		Major General Bernt Östh (born 1936)	1990	1994	3–4 years	Ingvar Carlsson Carl Bildt	-
-		Senior Colonel Kjell Nilsson (1943–2018) Acting	1993	1994	0–1 years	Carl Bildt	-

Chiefs of the Air Staff (2019–present)

No.	Portrait	Chief of the Air Staff	Took office	Left office	Time in office	Prime Minister	Ref
1		Colonel Anders Persson (born 1968)	1 January 2019	30 September 2019	272 days	Stefan Löfven	[5]
2		Colonel Anders Jönsson (born ?)	1 October 2019	31 May 2020	243 days	Stefan Löfven	[6][7]
3		Colonel Dennis Hedström (born ?)	1 June 2020	31 May 2024	3 years, 365 days	Stefan Löfven	[8]

Vice Chiefs of the Air Staff

Swedish: Souschef

No.	Portrait	Vice/Deputy Chief of the Air Staff	Took office	Left office	Time in office	Prime Minister	Ref
1		Colonel Karl Silfverberg (1899–1978)	1943	1948	4–5 years	Per Albin Hansson Tage Erlander	-
2		Colonel Torsten Rapp (1905–1993)	1 October 1948	1951	2–3 years	Tage Erlander	[9]
3		Colonel Greger Falk (1910–1990)	1951	1953	1–2 years	Tage Erlander	-
4		Colonel Stig Möller (1911–2002)	1953	1959	5–6 years	Tage Erlander	-
5		Colonel Gösta Odqvist (1913–2005)	1959	1961	1–2 years	Tage Erlander	-
6		Colonel Nils Personne (1918–2013)	1961	1966	4–5 years	Tage Erlander	-

Footnotes

1. Promoted to Colonel on 1 July 1937.[2]
2. Promoted to Major General in 1943.
3. Promoted to Major General in 1950.

References

1. Gullberg 1977, p. 134
2. Böhme 1990–1991, p. 292
3. Scheiderbauer 2007–2011, p. 225
4. Wennerholm 2015, p. 154
5. Ullman 2019
6. "PÅ NY POST" (PDF). Försvarets forum: personaltidning för fast anställda och reservofficerare i svenska försvarsmakten (in Swedish). Stockholm: Försvarets forum (5): 8. 2018. SELIBR 4109339. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
7. "PÅ NY POST" (PDF). Försvarets forum: personaltidning för fast anställda och reservofficerare i svenska försvarsmakten (in Swedish). Stockholm: Försvarets forum (1): 8–9. 2020. SELIBR 4109339. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
8. "PÅ NY POST" (PDF). Försvarets forum: personaltidning för fast anställda och reservofficerare i svenska försvarsmakten (in Swedish). Stockholm: Försvarets forum (2): 9. 2020. SELIBR 4109339. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
9. Norén 1995–1997, p. 675

Print

• Böhme, Klaus-Richard (1990–1991). "Bengt G Nordenskiöld". Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (in Swedish). 27. National Archives of Sweden. Retrieved 29 May 2020.
• Gullberg, Ingvar E. (1977). Svensk-engelsk fackordbok för näringsliv, förvaltning, undervisning och forskning [A Swedish-English dictionary of technical terms used in business, industry, administration, education and research] (in Swedish) (2nd ed.). Stockholm: Norstedt. ISBN 91-1-775052-0. SELIBR 8345587.
• Norén, Stig (1995–1997). "B Torsten Rapp". Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (in Swedish). 29. National Archives of Sweden. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
• Scheiderbauer, Sven (2007–2011). "Dick Stenberg". Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (in Swedish). 33. National Archives of Sweden. Retrieved 29 May 2020.
• Wennerholm, Bertil, ed. (2015). Så kom JAS-projektet till: vittnesseminarium kring beslutsprocessen om JAS 39 1979-1983 : 11 november 2013. Forskningsprojektet Försvaret och det kalla kriget (FOKK), 1652-5388 ; 45 (in Swedish). Stockholm: Forskningsprojektet Försvaret och det kalla kriget (FoKK. ISBN 9789198049886. SELIBR 18205009.

Web

• Ullman, Angela (2 October 2019). "Ny flygvapenchef tog befälet" (in Swedish). Swedish Armed Forces. Retrieved 18 August 2020.