Axel Klingenstierna
Axel Klingenstierna | |
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| Born | July 7, 1875 Kila, Södermanland County, Sweden–Norway |
| Died | December 21, 1966 (aged 91) Karlstad, Värmland County, Sweden |
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| Branch/service |  Swedish Army |
| Years of service | 1896–1940 |
| Rank | Generalmajor |
Claës Axel Klingenstierna (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈǎksɛl ˈklɪŋɛnˌɧæːɳa] 1875–1966) was a Swedish Army staff officer. He was a member of the Klingenstierna clan.
Biography
Axel Klingenstierna was born in the village of Kila in Södermanland.[1]
In 1896, he was commissioned as an underlöjtnant in the Södermanland Regiment. In the late 1890s, he studied in Montpellier, Dresden, and Moscow among other places.[1] In 1902, he completed a course at the Royal Swedish Army Staff College.
During the Russo-Japanese War, Klingenstierna and Nils D. Edlund led Swedish efforts to secretly support Japan with military intelligence and met with Col. Akashi Motojirō, spymaster for the Daihon'ei in Europe.[2] Among other things, Klingenstierna and Iwan T. Aminoff were able to arrange for one Lt. Bergen to infiltrate Russia in order to collect intelligence for the Japanese.[3]
In 1906, he became a lieutenant in the General Staff.[1]
Between 1928 and 1931, Klingenstierna served on an anti-aircraft research committee. In 1935, he was promoted to generalmajor and transferred to the reserve.[4] Klingenstierna wrote numerous essays and received patents for a number of inventions.
Klingenstierna died in 1966.[5]
References
- ^ a b c "Klingenstierna, Claës Axel". Project Runeberg (in Swedish). 1943. Retrieved 22 April 2025.
- ^ Edström, Bert (2015). "Japan as a Distant Friend: Scandinavian Countries Adjusting to Japan's Emergence as a Great Power". In Minohara, Tosh; Hon, Tze-ki; Dawley, Evan (eds.). The Decade of the Great War: Japan and the Wider World in the 1910s. Leiden: Brill Publishers. ISBN 900430262X.
- ^ 明石 Akashi, 元二郎 Motojirō (1988). Fält, Olavi K.; Kujala, Antti (eds.). Rakka ryūsui: Colonel Akashi's Report on His Secret Cooperation with the Russian Revolutionary Parties during the Russo-Japanese War. Translated by 稲葉 Inaba, 千晴 Chiharu. Finland: Suomen Historiallinen Seura.
- ^ "Klingenstierna, släkter". National Archives of Sweden (in Swedish). Retrieved 22 April 2025.
- ^ "Döda 1958-1968". Project Runeberg (in Swedish). 1969. Retrieved 22 April 2025.