Nils Rosenblad

Major General Gustaf Nils Oscar Rosenblad (1 August 1888 – 14 July 1981) was a senior Swedish Army officer. He served as commander of Västerbotten Regiment (1937–1941), commander of the 9th Army Division, deputy commander of the 3rd Army Division (1941–1942) and then as commanding general of the VI Military District (1942–1946). His career was cut short in 1946 due to the Rosenblad affair. He was transferred to the reserve in 1953 and remained there until 1958.

Early life Rosenblad was born on 1 August 1888 in , Stockholm, Sweden, the son of Major General and Senior Chamberlain (överkammarherren) and Mistress of the State (statsfru) Agnes Charlotta (Lotten) Henrietta Weidenhielm. He passed studentexamen on 18 May 1906 at Högre allmänna läroverket för gossar å Norrmalm in Stockholm.

During his career, Rosenblad wrote essays in Krigsvetenskapsakademiens handlingar och tidskrift, Svensk militär tidskrift, , Det Nya Sverige, , Effektivt försvar and in the daily press in military law and political subjects. He authored Ett ord i försvarsfrågan (1924).

Hansson replied "in a superior tone" (according to Erlander's diaries) that one can very well forget even the most important things. He was upset when Erlander, like Gunnar Sträng, Gustav Möller and others, had a different opinion and wanted to criticize Rosenblad in harsher terms than the prime minister wanted. At the interpellation debate two days later, it went, notes Erlander, "more pleasantly than expected" because Per Albin "put off his superhuman attitude". Both Hansson and Allan Vougt officially supported the Chancellor of Justice's conclusions, but the clock was nevertheless ticking for Rosenblad. General Jung and the Chief of the Army, Lieutenant General Archibald Douglas courted King Gustaf V on the same day with the request that Rosenblad be dismissed, which the king agreed to, however with the proviso that the major general should receive time to act himself. The following day, Rosenblad was informed by Prime Minister Hansson that he should hand in his resignation within a month. When the Supreme Commander and the Chief of the Army also formally asked Vougt to dismiss Rosenblad, he did as requested and left his post. The minister who took the most offense to the affair was Per Edvin Sköld, who believed that Rosenblad had suffered a miscarriage of justice and that the Swedish government had been run over by the communists. What had happened would have been equivalent to "spitting an honorable man (Rosenblad) in the face". "For fuck's sake, for fuck's sake", he added in a heated discussion with Erlander, whereupon he abruptly left the minister Erlander. Unlike Rosenblad, Kellgren received the government's full support, whereby the action went down the drain. Action against Thörnell was also prepared, but his position as Chief of His Majesty's Military Staff made him less accessible.

Death Rosenblad died on 14 July 1981 in Saltsjöbaden, Stockholm County.

Dates of rank 31 December 1908 – Underlöjtnant 31 December 1910 – Lieutenant 2nd Class 31 December 1915 – Lieutenant 1st Class 15 January 1915 – Captain 2nd Class 31 December 1929 – Major 1 June 1934 – Lieutenant colonel 13 November 1936 – Colonel 1 July 1942 – Major general

Awards and decorations

Swedish

Landstormens Silver Medal Västerbottens landstormsförbunds Silver Medal

Foreign

Portuguese Red Cross Medal

Honours Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences (1941)