Gustaf Adolf Westring

Lieutenant General Gustaf Adolf Westring (2 September 1900 – 15 March 1963) was a Swedish Air Force officer. Westring served as commanding officer of Västmanland Wing, as head of the Royal Swedish Air Force Staff College, as Chief of the Air Staff and as head of the Swedish National Defence College. He was also head of the Swedish contingent to the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission (NNSC).

Early life Westring was born on 2 September 1900 in Stockholm, the son of president of the Svea Court of Appeal, (1857–1926) and his wife, Countess Adélaïde Stackelberg. His brothers were Claes Westring (1893–1975), a diplomat, and (1897–1979), a physician.

Career

Westring graduated as a naval officer in 1922 and was commissioned as a fänrik in the Swedish Navy. He underwent flight training in 1924. Westring became a lieutenant in the Swedish Air Force in 1929 and served in the Air Staff from 1929 to 1934 and was an expert in the 1930 Defence Commission from 1931 to 1935. Westring was promoted to lieutenant general in 1961 and retired from the military. Westring was working for AB Atlas Copco at the time. Another Swede died on the same flight, Lars Gunnar Nilsson, a sales engineer at Atlas Copco's South American subsidiary.

He was buried on 4 May 1963 in Djursholm Cemetery.

Dates of rank 1922 – Acting sub-lieutenant (Swedish Navy) 1924 – Lieutenant 1929 – Lieutenant (Swedish Air Force) 1938 – Captain 1939 – Major 1942 – Lieutenant colonel 1943 – Colonel 1950 – Major general 1961 – Lieutenant general

Awards and decorations

Swedish

Honours Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences (1943)