16 Facts About Bengt Wallroth

Major General Bengt Johan Wallroth was a Swedish Army officer, military intelligence officer and civil servant.

Bengt Wallroth was Director-General of the National Defence Radio Establishment from 1989 to 1994.

Bengt Wallroth passed his studentexamen in 1950 and attended the Royal Military Academy in 1953.

Bengt Wallroth was commissioned as an officer in the Jamtland Ranger Regiment in 1953 with the rank of second lieutenant.

Bengt Wallroth then attended the Military Academy from 1960 to 1962 and was promoted to captain in the General Staff Corps in 1965.

Bengt Wallroth served in the Defence Staff from 1965 to 1984, with a break for troop service in Dalarna Regiment from 1969 to 1970, in Svea Life Guards from 1975 to 1977 and in Alvsborg Regiment from 1977 to 1978.

Bengt Wallroth attended the Swedish Defence University in 1975 and was promoted to colonel in 1977 and senior colonel in 1978.

Bengt Wallroth was head of the combined military intelligence and security service, as the Chief of Defence Staff's Operation Section 5 from 1978 to 1982.

Bengt Wallroth was appointed acting head of the Joint Operations Command in 1982 and was promoted to major general in 1984 and was head of the International Division at the Ministry of Defence from 1984 to 1989.

Bengt Wallroth was director-general and head of the National Defence Radio Establishment from 1989 to 1994, the dramatic years when the Warsaw Pact dissolved, the Soviet Union collapsed and the Soviet withdrew from the Baltics.

Bengt Wallroth was chief secretary of the Submarine Commission, which had the task to evaluate and analyze the indications of underwater violations and the submarine precautions that had occurred since 1980.

Bengt Wallroth gained through his extensive experience of the Swedish intelligence service and its sharp analytical skills, as an expert in the committee a great influence on the committee's work.

Bengt Wallroth was member of the board of ABAB and he became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences in 1986.

Bengt Wallroth was expert in the Military Responsibilities Committee from 1976 to 1982.

In 1956, Bengt Wallroth married Kerstin Hansen, the daughter of the civilekonom Gunnar Hansen and Ebba.

Bengt Wallroth died on 4 February 2005 and was buried at the cemetery Silverdals griftegard in Sollentuna Municipality.