Sigurd Kihlstedt

Sigurd Wilhelm Kihlstedt (14 March 1897 – 14 October 1953) was a Swedish physician. He served as Surgeon-in-Chief of the Swedish Army and head of the Swedish Army Medical Corps from 1943 to 1953 and Deputy Surgeon-General of the Swedish Armed Forces from 1949 to 1953.

Early life Kihlstedt was born on 14 March 1897 in Östersund, Sweden, the son of Lieutenant Colonel Erik Alfred Edmund Kihlstedt and his wife Kristiane Marie-Louise (Wiesen) Becker. He passed studentexamen in Stockholm in 1916 and received a Bachelor of Medical Sciences degree in 1920 and a Licentiate of Medical Science degree in Stockholm in 1927.

Career

Medical career Kihlstedt held various assistant physician and teaching assistant positions between 1922 and 1928, including at in Solna in 1924, in neurology at the Serafimerlasarettet's neurology clinic in Stockholm from 1924 to 1926 and in psychiatry at from 1926 to 1928.

Military career Kihlstedt began his medical military career in 1924 when he became a fältläkarstipendiat ("field surgeon student") in the reserve. He became the same in the Swedish Army Medical Corps in 1926. Kihlstedt served as a battalion surgeon in from 1928 to 1939. He then served as an army surgeon (fältläkare) in the 1st Army Division (Första arméfördelningen), later the I Military District Staff from 1939 to 1943. In 1943, Kihlstedt was appointed Surgeon-in-Chief of the Swedish Army and head of the Swedish Army Medical Corps. In 1949, he became Deputy Surgeon-General of the Swedish Armed Forces. Kihlstedt served in these positions until his death in 1953.

Personal life In 1928, Kihlstedt married Annie Emmy Charlotta Scheutz (1898–1986), the daughter of Komminister H. T. S. and Anna Johansson. They had three children: Gunilla Elisabet (born 1930), Ingrid Birgitta (born 1932) and Lars-Erik Herman (born 1936).

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