Regner Leuhusen

Lieutenant General Friherre Regner Niels Carlsson Leuhusen (22 December 190010 March 1994) was a Swedish Army officer. Leuhusen served as commander of Värmland Regiment (1951–1953), and as Commanding General of the VII Military District (1957–1959) and the V Military District (1963–1966).

Early life Leuhusen was born on 22 December 1900 in Stockholm, Sweden, the son of ryttmästare, Friherre Carl Leuhusen and his wife Lizinka (née Sörensen). He passed mogenhetsexamen on 13 May 1919. Leuhusen became an officer candidate in Svea Life Guards on 7 September 1919 and enrolled at the Military Academy Karlberg in Stockholm on 15 October 1920.

Career Leuhusen graduated from the Military Academy Karlberg on 17 December 1921 and was commissioned as an officer and assigned as a second lieutenant to Svea Life Guards on 31 December 1921. He was promoted to underlöjtnant on 31 December 1923 and to lieutenant on 28 May 1926. He served as a teacher of land warfare at the Royal Swedish Air Force Staff College in 1941. Leuhusen was major in the General Staff Corps in 1942

He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1944 and served in Jönköping-Kalmar Regiment in 1945. He was promoted to colonel in 1947 and was assigned to Svea Life Guards. Leuhusen then served as commander of the Swedish Infantry Gunnery School from 1946 to 1951 and of Värmland Regiment from 1951 to 1953. He was colonel in the General Staff Corps and served as chief of Section II in the Army Staff in 1953. Leuhusen was promoted to major general in 1957 and served as Commanding General, VII Military District between 1 April 1957 and 30 September 1959. He was then Commanding General, V Military District from 1959 to 1966. He retired from active service in 1966 and was promoted to lieutenant general on the reserve list. He has also been credited by Major General Claës Skoglund with inventing motorized bikejoring , based on skijoring, which is a way to pull military bicycles on a wire behind a motor vehicle to move large masses of light infantry faster.

Personal life In 1933, Leuhusen married Marie-Louise Cervell (1902–1994), the daughter of consul Gustaf Johanson and Anna (née Valentin). ) and Caroline (born 1938). Leuhusen's brother-in-law was colonel Frank Cervell.

From 1936 to 1963, Leuhusen owned a villa on Kopparbovägen 48 in Kopparbo in Kolmården. He was the owner of Boxholm's manor in Östergötland

Dates of rank 1921 – Second lieutenant 1923 – Underlöjtnant 1926 – Lieutenant 1935 – Captain 1941 – Major 1944 – Lieutenant colonel 1947 – Colonel 1957 – Major general 1966 – Lieutenant general

Awards and decorations

Swedish

Landstormen Silver Medal (Landstormens silvermedalj)

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