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 heldFlag captain
Inspector 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

Early life

Ehrensvärd was born on 16 September 1858 at Tosterup Castle, Tomelilla Municipality, 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]

Career

He became 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

Foreign

Honours

References

  1. Lewenhaupt, Claës C:son (1922). Sveriges ridderskaps och adels kalender 1923 (in Swedish). Vol. 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.
  9. Bille-Hansen, A. C.; Holck, Harald, eds. (1943) [1st pub.:1801]. Statshaandbog for Kongeriget Danmark for Aaret 1943 [State Manual of the Kingdom of Denmark for the Year 1943] (PDF). Kongelig Dansk Hof- og Statskalender (in Danish). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz A.-S. Universitetsbogtrykkeri. p. 20. Retrieved 17 March 2021 via da:DIS Danmark.
  10. "No. 28048". The London Gazette. 6 August 1907. p. 5390.
  11. "Ritter-orden". Hof- und Staatshandbuch der Österreichisch-Ungarischen Monarchie (in German). 1918. p. 147.

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