Jan Thörnqvist

Vice Admiral Anders Jan-Eric Törnqvist (born 9 October 1959) is a retired Swedish Navy officer. Before his retirement in 2020, he served as the Chief of Joint Operations of the Swedish Armed Forces from 2016 to 2020 and as Commandant General in Stockholm from 2019 to 2020.

Career Thörnqvist began his career at the age of fifteen in the Swedish Sea Cadet Corps. He was commissioned into the Swedish Navy in 1976 and served as a basic Private and Petty Officer afloat on various types of ships in the Navy, including Minesweepers, Destroyers, Fast Patrol and Picket Boats. In 1981, he entered the Royal Swedish Naval Academy and graduated in 1982. He was commissioned as a Lieutenant Junior Grade and moved immediately to complete the Principal Warfare Officer training course. Thörnqvist was promoted to Lieutenant in 1983. Thörnqvist was promoted on 1 March 2011 to Rear Admiral and was appointed Chief of Navy the same day and was in this position the head of the Maritime Component Command. On 7 April 2016 he was promoted to vice admiral and appointed Chief of Joint Operations (Insatschef) of the Joint Forces Command (Insatsstaben). He assumed the position on 18 April 2016. In 2019, Jan Thörnqvist was appointed Commandant General in Stockholm. Törnqvist retired in 2020 and was succeeded as Chief of Joint Operations by Lieutenant General Michael Claesson.

Personal life Thörnqvist is married to Christina Martinsson and they have three children, Johan (born 1985), Henrik (born 1990) and Eric (born 2000).

1982: Sub-lieutenant 1983: Lieutenant 1989-07-01: Lieutenant commander 2001-04-01: Commander 2006-09-14: Captain 2010-01-12—09-30: Rear admiral (lower half) (constituted) 2010-01-01: Rear admiral (lower half) 2011-03-01: Rear admiral 2016-04-18: Vice admiral

Awards and decorations

Swedish

Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences, Section II, Naval Warfare Studies (2012) Chairman of the Naval Officer's Society in Karlskrona (Sjöofficerssällskapet i Karlskrona) (2008) Chairman of Stiftelsen Drottning Victorias Örlogshem (2006) Member of the board of the Defence Materiel Administration Former member of the Swedish Maritime Administration

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