Gösta Lilliehöök

Lieutenant General Gösta Lilliehöök (19 September 1871 – 22 November 1952) was a Swedish Army officer. His senior commands include commanding officer of the 1st Infantry Brigade, military commander of Upper Norrland and of the Eastern Army Division as well as Commandant General of Stockholm Garrison.

Early life Lilliehöök was born on 19 September 1871 in Ovansjö, Gävleborg County, Sweden, the son of major Gustaf "Gösta" Lilliehöök and his wife Gunilla Wærn. He was the brother of colonel Bertil Lilliehöök (1870–1967) and lieutenant general Lennart Lilliehöök (1872–1950).

Career

Military career He was commissioned as an officer in Hälsinge Regiment in 1891 with the rank of underlöjtnant. Lilliehöök transferred to Svea Life Guards in 1892 where he was promoted to lieutenant in 1896. He became captain in the General Staff in 1904 and in the Svea Life Guards in 1905 and in the Norrbotten Regiment in 1909. He was a teacher of tactics at the Royal Swedish Army Staff College from 1905 to 1910 and acting chief of staff at the military commander on Gotland from 1906 to 1909. In 1909, Lilliehöök conducted military studies in Germany. He became major in the General Staff in 1912 and served as senior adjutant and lieutenant colonel in the General Staff in 1915 and as staff officer in the Infantry Inspectorate (Infanteriinspektionen) the same year.

Lilliehöök was also chairman of Sagokonst AB, AB Industricentralen and the Svenska draghundklubben.

Personal life Lilliehöök married for the first time on 24 September 1901 in Hedvig Eleonora Parish, Stockholm, to Gerda Eva Anna Helena Gabriella Hansson (13 September 1872 in Stockholm – 12 May 1927 in Östersund), the daughter of the wholesaler Lars Peter Hansson and Sofia Josefina Lagercrantz. They had three children, Sigrid (born 1900), Gösta G:son (born 1903) and Gunilla (born 1907).

He married for the second time on 18 July 1929 in Misterhult, Kalmar County, to Irma Maria Pagel (12 October 1894 in Stockholm – 29 September 1972 in Stockholm), the daughter of the wholesaler Axel Julius Pettersson Pagel and Alida Maria Edberg.

Dates of rank 1891 – Underlöjtnant 1896 – Lieutenant 1904 – Captain 1912 – Major 1915 – Lieutenant colonel 1917 – Colonel 1928 – Major general 1934 – Lieutenant general

Awards and decorations

Swedish

Shooting Gold Medal

Filmography I gult och blått (1942) Talarfilm Gösta Lilliehöök och Sixtus Jansson (1940)