Bengt Svensson

Major General Bengt Allan Svensson (born 24 February 1958) is a retired Swedish Army officer. Svensson served as Assistant Chief of Armed Forces Training & Procurement from 2012 to 2014.

Career Svensson was born on 24 February 1958 in Karlskrona, Sweden. He graduated from the Military Academy Karlberg in 1982 and was commissioned as an officer and assigned to the Scanian Anti-Aircraft Regiment in Ystad with the rank of fänrik. He was promoted to captain in 1983 and attended the Artillery and Engineering College in Stockholm from 1984 to 1985. He then served as platoon leader in Cyprus within the Swedish contingent of United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) in 1986. Svensson served as platoon leader in the Scanian Anti-Aircraft Regiment from 1986 to 1988 and attended the Tactical Course at the Swedish National Defence College from 1988 to 1989 when he was promoted to major. Svensson was promoted to brigadier general in 2009 after which he served as Assistant Chief of Armed Forces Training & Procurement from 2012 to 2014.

Dates of rank 1982 – Second lieutenant 19?? – Lieutenant 1983 – Captain 1989 – Major 1998 – Lieutenant colonel 2000 – Colonel 2009 – Brigadier general 2012 – Major general

Awards and decorations

Swedish

Foreign Legion of Merit (September 2012)

Honours Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences (2005)