Greger Falk

Major General Kurt Bengt Greger Fredrik H:son Falk (13 March 1910 – 20 January 1990) was a Swedish Air Force officer. His senior commands include positions as the Inspector of the Control and Reporting System (1953–1957), the Vice Chief of the Air Staff (1951–1953), commanding officer of the Fourth Air Group (1957–1961), as well as Vice Chief and then Chief of the Royal Swedish Air Force Materiel Administration (1961–1967).

Early life Falk was born on 13 March 1910 in Visby, Sweden, the son of Major General and his wife Kerstin Söderberg. He had one sister, Sonja Anne-Louise (born 13 August 1911). He passed studentexamen in Stockholm in 1928. Falk attended the Royal Swedish Air Force Staff College in 1943, and was promoted to major in 1944.

Falk was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1947 and was appointed commanding officer of the Södermanland Wing in 1949. He was promoted to colonel in 1951 and served as Vice Chief of the Air Staff in 1951. Falk was appointed Inspector of the Control and Reporting System of the Swedish Air Force in 1953 and attended the Swedish National Defence College in 1954. He was commanding officer of the Fourth Air Group (Fjärde flygeskadern, E 4) in 1957, attended the Swedish National Defence College in 1959, and was promoted to major general in 1959. He served as Vice Chief of the Royal Swedish Air Force Materiel Administration from 1961 to 1963 and as chief of the same from 1963 to 1967.

Falk served as military adviser at the Instituut voor Tuinbouwtechniek, the Netherlands from 1967, as board member of the Swedish National Defence Research Institute and National Aeronautical Research Institute from 1961 to 1967.

Personal life In 1936, Falk married Margit Holmberg (1917–1994), the daughter of factory manager Harald Holmberg and Annie (née Wersén). They had two children: Monica (born 1938) and Ingela (born 1942).

Dates of rank 1931 – Second lieutenant 1936 – Lieutenant 1940 – Captain 1944 – Major 1947 – Lieutenant colonel 1951 – Colonel 1959 – Major general

Awards and decorations

Swedish

Foreign

Honours Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences (1952)