Stig H:son Ericson

Stig H:son Ericson
Nickname(s) Stig (Hansson) H:son Ericson
Born (1897-07-12)12 July 1897
Stockholm, Sweden
Died 8 January 1985(1985-01-08) (aged 87)
Buried at Galärvarvskyrkogården
Allegiance Sweden
Service/branch Swedish Navy
Years of service 1918–1961
Rank Admiral
Commands held HSwMS Drottning Victoria
Coastal Fleet
Chief of the Navy
Other work First Marshal of the Court
Marshal of the Realm

Stig (Hansson) H:son Ericson (12 July 1897 – 8 January 1985) was a Swedish Navy admiral. He was commanding officer of the Coastal Fleet from 1950 to 1953 and the Chief of the Navy from 1953 to 1961. After retiring from the Navy in 1961, Ericson held court offices in the Royal Court of Sweden. He was Marshal of the Realm from 1966 to 1976.

Career

Chief of the Navy Vice Admiral Ericsson (left) and Chief of Danish Navy Staff Vice Admiral Hans Alfred Nyholm in 1955.

Ericson was born in Stockholm, Sweden, the son of rear admiral Hans Ericson and his wife Elin (née Gadelius). He passed studentexamen in 1915[1] and became an naval officer and acting sub-lieutenant in the Swedish Navy in 1918. Ericson served at the Naval Staff from 1926 to 1932.[2] Ericson was a teacher at the Royal Swedish Naval Staff College from 1928 to 1938 and served as a naval assistant at the Board of Telecommunications Services (Telegrafstyrelsen) from 1929 to 1932.[2]

Ericson completed the staff course at the École Superieure de Guerre Navale in Paris from 1930 to 1931 and was flag adjutant of the commanding officer of the Coastal Fleet from 1932 to 1936 and commanding officer of destroyers from 1936 to 1938 as well as served at the Naval Staff from 1936 to 1938 when he was promoted to commander.[3] Ericson was head of Navy Operational Department at the Defence Staff from 1939 to 1942 and captain of the coastal defence ship HSwMS Drottning Victoria from 1942 to 1943[3] when he was promoted to captain and was appointed chief of staff.[2]

He was appointed flag captain in 1943 and was head of the Weapons Department at the Royal Swedish Naval Materiel Administration from 1944 to 1945[2][3] when he was promoted to rear admiral and appointed vice chief there the same year. Ericson left the position in 1950 when he was appointed commanding officer of the Coastal Fleet which he was until 1953. He was promoted to vice admiral in 1953 when he was appointed Chief of the Navy. He left the position and retired from the navy in 1961 and was at the same time promoted to full admiral.[2] Ericson had previously served within the Royal Court of Sweden as adjutant of Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf in 1937 and as Chief Adjutant of His Majesty the King Gustaf VI Adolf from 1950 to 1973. After retiring from the navy in 1961, he became the First Marshal of the Court the year after. He served in that position until 1969 and as Marshal of the Realm from 1970 to 1976 (acting 1966 to 1969).[4]

Other work

Ericson was an expert in 1930 and the 1945 Defense Commission, secretary of the 1936 Ship Class Investigation and the investigation into the Coast Guard in 1941.[4] He was a member of the Council of the Factory Board (Fabrikstyrelsens råd) and the Defence Research Council (Försvarets forskningsnämnd) from 1943 to 1945.[5] Ericson was a board member of the Swedish National Defence Research Institute from 1945 to 1950, chairman of the Swedish Board for Computing Machinery from 1948 to 1950, chairman of Vegetebolagen from 1949 to 1957 and vice chairman of the board of the Maritime Museum from 1948 to 1950.[4]

Furthermore, Ericson was chairman of Svenska Dagbladet's Foundation from 1962 to 1967, of the Carnegiestiftelsen from 1967 to 1979 and of the Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde from 1966 to 1976. He was a board member of the AB Marabou from 1951 to 1975, of the AB Turitz & Co from 1958 to 1970 and of the Stockholms Enskilda Bank from 1968 to 1970. Ericson was chairman of the Council for Socioeconomic Issues (Rådet för samhällsekonomiska frågor) from 1970 to 1979.[4]

Ericson became a member of the Royal Swedish Society of Naval Sciences in 1932 (honorary member in 1945) and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences in 1942 (president 1953-1955). Ericson became an associate honorary member of the United States Naval Institute in 1959.[2]

Personal life

Ericsson's grave at Galärvarvskyrkogården in Stockholm.

In 1921 he married Barbro Almström (1901–1993), the daughter of factory manager Harald Almström and his wife Agda (née Norinder).[2] He was the father of Barbro Stigsdotter (born 1922).[3] Ericsson died in 1985 and was buried at Galärvarvskyrkogården in Stockholm.

Awards and decorations

Ericson's awards:

Bibliography

References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Burling, Ingeborg, ed. (1962). Vem är det: svensk biografisk handbok. 1963 [Who is it: Swedish biographical handbook. 1963] (in Swedish). Stockholm: Norstedt. p. 290.
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  4. 1 2 3 4 Vem är det: svensk biografisk handbok. 1985 [Who is it: Swedish biographical handbook. 1985] (in Swedish). Stockholm: Norstedt. 1984. p. 308. ISBN 91-1-843222-0.
  5. ↑ Burling, Ingeborg, ed. (1956). Vem är det: svensk biografisk handbok. 1957 [Who is it: Swedish biographical handbook. 1957] (in Swedish). Stockholm: Norstedt. p. 268.
  6. 1 2 Lindemalm, Åke (1985). "Hedersledamoten Stig H:son-Ericson" (PDF). Tidskrift i sjöväsendet (in Swedish). Carlskrona: Tidskrift i sjöväsendet (4): 245–246. LIBRIS 8258455.
Military offices
Preceded by
Erik Samuelson		 Commanding officer of the Coastal Fleet
1950–1953 		Succeeded by
Erik af Klint
Preceded by
Helge Strömbäck		 Chief of the Navy
1953–1961 		Succeeded by
Åke Lindemalm
Court offices
Preceded by
Erik Wetter		 First Marshal of the Court
1962–1969 		Succeeded by
Malcolm Murray
Preceded by
Nils Vult von Steyern		 Marshal of the Realm
1966–1976 		Succeeded by
Gunnar Lagergren
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