Quartermaster-General, Major General Hilding Kring at the last plenary session of the Royal Swedish Army Supply Administration in June 1963.

The Quartermaster-General of the Swedish Army^[1] (Swedish: generalintendenten, genint) was a general officer who was responsible for the Swedish Army Quartermaster Corps, the quartermaster branch of the Swedish Army.

History

In Sweden, the Quartermaster General was the highest commander of an army's commissariat service; between 1796 and 1814 it was the name of the chief of the General War Commissariat (Generalkrigskommissariatet), and between 1850 and 1865 the name of the chief of the Commissary Department in the War College, and finally from 1865 the name of the chief of the Royal Swedish Army Materiel Administration's Quartermaster Department (from 1880 also head of the Swedish Army Quartermaster Corps).^[2] The Quartermaster General was responsible for the army's clothing and provisioning, maintenance and remounting, in war also for the General Staff's finances and the accounting thereof.^[3]

The Quartermaster General, who commanded the Swedish Army Quartermaster Corps, also commanded the Royal Swedish Army Materiel Administration's Quartermasters Department and he was also, from 1914, the Inspector of the Quartermaster Service Troops (Intendenturtrupperna, Int) and regarding the training of these troops, he had similar duties as other branch inspectors. In his capacity as head of the Swedish Army Quartermaster Corps and Inspector of the Quartermaster Service Troops, he was assisted most closely by personnel of the Quartermaster Staff (Intendenturstaben).^[4]

In the Swedish Navy, in 1789, a Quartermaster General was appointed, in whose hand the entire economic board rested. The office was abolished in 1794.^[5]

Quartermasters General

Portrait	Quartermaster General	Took office	Left office	Time in office	Defence branch	Monarch	Ref.
	af Billbergh, Johan PeterJohan Peter af Billbergh (1776–1850) Acting	14 July 1812	?	0 years	–	Charles XIII	[6]
	Sandels, GöstaLieutenant colonel[lower-alpha 1] Gösta Sandels (1815–1914) Acting	1853	1858	4–5 years	Army	Oscar I Charles XV	[8][7]
	Sandels, GöstaLieutenant general[lower-alpha 2] Gösta Sandels (1815–1914)	1858	1883	24–25 years	Army	Oscar I Charles XV Oscar II	[8]
	Palmstierna, HjalmarMajor general[lower-alpha 3] Hjalmar Palmstierna (1836–1909)	26 February 1883	1892	8–9 years	Army	Oscar II	[9]
	Oxehufvud, ChristerColonel Christer Oxehufvud (1831–1917) Acting	15 March 1889	1890	0–1 years	Army	Oscar II	[10]
	Thorén, AdamMajor general Adam Thorén (1835–1907)	1892	1896	3–4 years	Army	Oscar II	-
	Berg, RichardMajor general Richard Berg (1843–1924)	13 November 1896	1904	7–8 years	Army	Oscar II	[11]
	Bildt, Knut GillisMajor general Knut Gillis Bildt (1854–1927)	29 January 1904	1905	0–1 years	Army	Oscar II	[12]
	Holmquist, FredrikFredrik Holmquist (1847–1927)	3 November 1905	10 April 1915	9 years, 158 days	Army	Oscar II Gustaf V	[13]
	Frölich, FredrikMajor general Fredrik Frölich (1861–1933)	10 April 1915	1926	10–11 years	Army	Gustaf V	[14]
	Hultkrantz, AxelLieutenant general[lower-alpha 4] Axel Hultkrantz (1870–1955)	1 November 1926	11 April 1935	8 years, 161 days	Army	Gustaf V	[15]
	Söderbom, HelgeMajor general Helge Söderbom (1881–1975)	1935	1946	10–11 years	Army	Gustaf V	[16]
	Gewert, IvarMajor general Ivar Gewert (1891–1971)	1946	1957	10–11 years	Army	Gustaf V Gustaf VI Adolf	[17]
	Kring, HildingMajor general Hilding Kring (1899–1971)	1 April 1957	30 June 1963	6 years, 90 days	Army	Gustaf VI Adolf	[18]

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