Carl August Ehrensvärd (1858–1944)

Count Carl August Ehrensvärd (16 September 1858 – 16 February 1944) was a Swedish Navy admiral, politician and Minister for Naval Affairs 1907–1911.

Carl August Ehrensvärd
Birth nameCarl August Ehrensvärd
Born(1858-09-16)16 September 1858
Tosterup Castle, Sweden
Died16 February 1944(1944-02-16) (aged 85)
Stockholm, Sweden
Service/branchSwedish Navy
Years of service1878–1923
RankAdmiral
Commands heldInspector of the Navy's Exercises at Sea
Highest Commander of the Coastal Fleet
RelationsCarl August Ehrensvärd (son)
Gösta Ehrensvärd (son)
Augustin Ehrensvärd (son)
Albert Ehrensvärd (brother)
Other workMinister for Naval Affairs (1907–10)
Chief of His Majesty's Military Staff

Career

Ehrensvärd was born at Tosterup Castle, Sweden, the son of County Governor Albert Ehrensvärd and his wife Ingeborg Hedvig Vogt (from Norway). He had fours siblings; Albert Ehrensvärd (1867–1940), Henriette Eleonore Ingeborg Ehrensvärd (born 1853), Anna Louise Dorotée (born 1855) and Augustine Sofia Amalia (1862–1944).[1]

He became acting sub-lieutenant (underlöjtnant) in the Swedish Navy in 1878 and lieutenant (kapten) in 1889. Ehrensvärd was promoted to lieutenant commander in 1900 and to commander in 1903. He was head of the Military Office of the Ministry for Naval Affairs from 1904 to 1906 and he was promoted to captain in 1905. Ehrensvärd was chief of the shipyard in Karlskrona in 1906 and Council of State (statsråd) and head of the Ministry for Naval Affairs from 4 December 1907 to 30 June 1910. Ehrensvärd then promoted to rear admiral in 1910 and appointed station commander in Stockholm. In 1916 he was appointed Inspector of the Navy's Exercises at Sea and the year after Ehrensvärd was promoted to vice admiral.[2]

In 1919 Ehrensvärd was appointed Highest Commander of the Coastal Fleet and he was then commanding admiral and station commander in Karlskrona from 1919 to 1923. He was first adjutant of Gustaf V of Sweden and was appointed chief of His Majesty's Military Staff in 1924. Ehrensvärd was promoted to full admiral in 1926, three years after he retired from the navy.[2]

Personal life

In 1883 he married baroness Lovisa Ulrika (Ulla) Thott (born 3 August 1858),[1] the daughter of ryttmästare, baron Gustav Thott and baroness Ulrika Thott.[2] They had three sons: Carl August Ehrensvärd, Gösta Ehrensvärd and Augustin Ehrensvärd.

Dates of rank

Awards and decorations

Swedish

Forieng

Honours

References

  1. Lewenhaupt, Claës C:son (1922). Sveriges ridderskaps och adels kalender 1923 (in Swedish). 46. Stockholm: Bonnier. pp. 284–285. SELIBR 10034286.
  2. Vem är det: svensk biografisk handbok. 1933 [Who is it: Swedish biographical handbook. 1933] (in Swedish). Stockholm: Norstedt. 1932. p. 197.
  3. Sveriges statskalender för året 1942 (in Swedish). Uppsala: Fritzes offentliga publikationer. 1942. p. 7.
  4. Sveriges statskalender för året 1942 (in Swedish). Uppsala: Fritzes offentliga publikationer. 1942. p. 69.
  5. Sveriges statskalender för året 1925 (in Swedish). Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksell. 1925. p. 809.
  6. Sveriges statskalender för år 1915 (in Swedish). Uppsala: Fritzes offentliga publikationer. 1915. p. 676.
  7. Svensk rikskalender 1909 (in Swedish). Stockholm: P. A. Nordstedt & Söner. 1908. p. 616. SELIBR 498191.
  8. Sveriges statskalender för år 1905 (in Swedish). Stockholm: P.A. Nordstedt & Söner. 1904. p. 456.

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Government offices
Preceded by
Wilhelm Dyrssen
Minister for Naval Affairs
1907–1910
Succeeded by
Henning von Krusenstierna
Military offices
Preceded by
Wilhelm Dyrssen
Inspector of the Navy's Exercises at Sea
1916–1918
Succeeded by
Himself
Preceded by
Himself
Highest Commander of the Coastal Fleet
1919–1919
Succeeded by
Carl Alarik Wachtmeister
Court offices
Preceded by
Gustaf Uggla
Chief of His Majesty's Military Staff
1924–1944
Succeeded by
Olof Thörnell
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