Helge Jung

Helge Victor Jung was a Swedish Army general. He was the Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces from 1944 to 1951.

Jung was born in Malm, Sweden, and was the son of the headmaster Victor Jung and Maria Levan. He was commissioned into the army as second lieutenant in the Southern Scanian Infantry Regiment in 1906 and was a cadet officer at the War School from 1919 to 1922. Jung was a teacher of military history together with strategy at the War College from 1926 to 1928. He was the commander of the Military History Department of the General Staff in 1928 and was the Head of Department in 1929. Jung became a major in the General Staff in 1928, lieutenant colonel in 1933 and became colonel and commander of the North Scanian Infantry Regiment in 1936.

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