Bo Westin

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Lieutenant General Bo Lars Axel Westin (12 September 1913 – 17 January 2009) was a Swedish Coastal Artillery officer. Westin was Chief of the Naval Staff from 1968 to 1970 and Chief of the Defence Staff from 1970 to 1972. Westin was born on 12 September 1913 in Norrköping Saint Olof Parish in Norrköping, Sweden, the son of accountant Axel Westin and his wife Gottfrida "Frida" (née Nilsson). He passed studentexamen in 1933. Westin enrolled at the Royal Swedish Naval Academy where he graduated as second lieutenant in Karlskrona Coastal Artillery Regiment (KA 2) in 1937. He focused early on anti-aircraft artillery and was placed early as a teacher at various artillery schools through his technical and mathematical orientation. Westin was promoted to lieutenant in 1939 and served in the Defence Staff in 1943 and passed the general course of the Royal Swedish Naval Staff College in 1944 and was promoted to captain in 1945. He passed the artillery course of the Royal Swedish Naval Staff College in 1946 and he was a teacher at the Royal Swedish Naval Academy from 1946 to 1948. Westin served at the Swedish Missile Defence Agency (Försvarets robotvapenbyrå) within the Royal Swedish Air Force Materiel Administration in 1949 and he was a teacher at the Royal Swedish Naval Staff College from 1949 to 1950. Westin was promoted to major in 1951 and served as deputy defence attaché in Washington, D.C., United States from 1951 to 1953.