Carl Warberg

Lieutenant General Casten Abraham Carl Warberg (2 December 1845 – 16 October 1910) was a Swedish Army officer. His senior commands include commanding officer of the 4th and 6th Army Divisions. Warberg also served as Acting Chief of the General Staff and as Commandant General in Stockholm. He was also the chief of His Majesty's Military Staff.

Early life Warberg was born on 2 December 1845 in Värmdö Municipality, Sweden. Warberg was commissioned as an officer in 1864 in 2nd Life Guards (Andra livgardet) with the rank of underlöjtnant. In 1877 he served a military attaché for six months in the Russian Army of the Danube during the Russo-Turkish War. Warberg was then stationed partly at the headquarters and partly in the 9th Army Corps. He attended the shelling and the battle of Nikopol fortress and the fortress's surrender in July. Furthermore, he was an attentive witness to the various afflictions at Plevna, Sgalevica and Pelisat as well as to the Siege of Plevna. From 1909 until his death a year later, he served as First Aide-de-Camp and Chief of the King's Staff. Warberg had also participated in the work of various committees. He was the secretary of the Swedish-Norwegian Committee for indication of proposals in the security service from 1879 to 1881, and after 1900–1901 having been heavily involved in the work for a new army order, Warberg was in 1903 the chairman of the committee for reviewing and reworking proposals for organizing the landstorm. the daughter of minister Gustaf Lagercrantz.

Death Warberg died on 16 October 1910 in Stockholm.

Dates of rank 1864 – Underlöjtnant 1868 – Lieutenant 1875 – Captain 1884 – Major 1888 – Lieutenant colonel 1891 – Colonel 1897 – Major general 1905 – Lieutenant general

Awards and decorations

Swedish

Foreign

50px Commander 1st Class of the Order of St. Olav (between 1901 and 1905)

Member First Class of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences (1897)