Viking Tamm
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Lieutenant General Viking Sebastian Henricsson Tamm was a Swedish Army officer. In addition to the years he served in the Swedish Army, Tamm led a group of Swedish officers who developed the Ethiopian military school's officer training and he was a volunteer in the Winter War in Finland in 1940 commanding the II. Battlegroup of the Swedish Volunteer Corps. Back in Sweden he eventually became Chief of the Army Staff and the General Staff Corps (1948–53) and commander of the I Military District (1953–61) before retiring as a Lieutenant General in 1961.
Major General Viking Tamm in June 1948.
Tamm (third from the left) along with four other Swedish officers in Abyssinia in 1934.
Chief of the Army Staff (Sweden)
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The Chief of the Army Staff is the professional head of the Swedish Army Staff. The post was created in 1936 with colonel Helge Jung as the first incumbent. The post disappeared in 1994 and was reintroduced in 2019 when the new Army Staff was established.
Chief of the Army Staff (Sweden)
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Image: Generalmajor Helge Victor Jung
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