Per Kellin

Major General Per Åke Nilsson Kellin (17 September 1903 – 31 March 1973) was a Swedish Army officer. He served as Chief of Home Guard from 1955 to 1968

Early life Kellin was born on 17 September 1903 in Svea Life Guards Parish (Svea Livgardes församling) in Stockholm, Sweden, as the son of captain Nils Adolf Kellin and his wife Thyra Charlotta Hermansson. He passed studentexamen at in Stockholm in the spring of 1922.

Career Kellin was commissioned as an officer in 1924 with the rank of second lieutenant and was assigned to Södermanland Regiment (I 10) the same year. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1928 and later as captain in the General Staff Corps. In 1939, Kellin participated in a course in the French Army. He served as a teacher at the Royal Swedish Naval Staff College from 1940 to 1942 when he was promoted to major. During this time, Kellin was also military contributor in Radiotjänst (1941–1945), Arbetet (1941–1944) and in Svenska Dagbladet (1941–1947).

Kellin served as Vice Chief of the Military Office of the Land Defence (Lantförsvarets kommandoexpedition) in 1944 and as Chief of the Army Section in the Military Office of the Minister of Defence from 1945 to 1947. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in the General Staff Corps in 1946 and he served in the Älvsborg Regiment (I 15) in 1947. and became a member of the Executive Committee of the Central Board of the National [Swedish] Rifle Clubs (Skytteförbundens överstyrelse). He was promoted to major general in 1959.

National Swedish Rifle Association's silver medal (Sveriges skytteförbunds överstyrelses silvermedalj, SvsfbSM)

Danish Reserve Officers Association's Badge of Honor (Danska reservofficersförbundets hederstecken) Danish Home Guard Badge of Merit

Honours Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences (1946)