Paul Degerlund

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Major General Fritz Erling Paul Degerlund (born 16 December 1948) is a retired Swedish Army officer. Degerlund's senior commands include Inspector General of the Swedish Army and commanding officer of the Southern Military District. Degerlund was born in Överstbyn, Boden Municipality, Sweden. He graduated as an engineer in 1971 and then attended the Royal Military Academy from 1973 to 1974. Degerlund was trained in the air defense service and served in the Luleå Anti-Aircraft Regiment (Lv 7) in Luleå. He underwent traditional general staff training and got 1987–1988 the privilege to be a student at the United States Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth in the United States. Degerlund has, among other things, been a teacher at the Swedish Armed Forces Staff College and was head of the Army Staff's Planning Department. He was commanding officer of the Halland Brigade (Hallandsbrigaden, IB 16) from 1993 to 1995 and then commanding officer of the Combat School South (Stridsskola Syd, SSS) from 1995 to 1997. Degerlund was an expert in the 1997 Parliamentary Conscript Training Committee and in charge of conscription issue at the Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters until 1998 when he was promoted to major general and appointed to the position of Inspector General of the Army and head of the Army Tactical Center in Enköping. Degerlund was then commanding officer of the Southern Military District from 1 July 2000 to 30 June 2004 when he retired from active service and was appointed reserve officer in the Swedish Armed Forces from 1 July 2004.