Einar Westerberg

Claes Einar Westerberg (28 October 1893 – 8 December 1976) was a Swedish physician. He served as Surgeon-in-Chief of the Swedish Air Force from 1940 to 1952.

Early life Westerberg was born on 28 October 1893 in Hedvig Eleonora Parish, Stockholm, Sweden, the son of Claes Westerberg and his wife Constance (née Löfgren). He passed studentexamen in Stockholm in 1911 and received a Bachelor of Medical Sciences degree in Stockholm in 1914.

Career Westerberg received a Licentiate of Medical Science degree in Stockholm in 1919 and had various appointments as assistant physician between 1916 and 1922. He joined the Swedish Naval Medical Officers' Corps in 1917 and became a naval surgeon of the 2nd class in 1919 after which he had different positions such as ship's doctor and more between 1917 and 1919. He then served as doctor at Vaxholm Fortress from 1929 to 1931 when he was appointed as the first Surgeon-in-Chief of the Swedish Air Force in the Swedish Air Force. He would serve in this position until 1952 when he entered the air force reserve.

Westerberg also served as the Swedish government's representative at the III International Congress on Sanitary Aviation in Brussels in 1935 and at the 16th International Red Cross Conference in London in 1938.

Personal life In 1920, Westerberg married Seidi Vilhelmina Lindblad (1893–1972),

Awards and decorations

Swedish

Swedish Red Cross Silver Medal

Honours Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences (1944) Honorary Doctor of Medicine at Stockholm University College (1954)