17 Facts About Carl-Fredrik Algernon

Rear Admiral Carl-Fredrik Robert Algernon was a Swedish Navy officer.

Carl-Fredrik Algernon was born on 9 October 1925 in Stockholm, Sweden, the son of head of department Carl Carl-Fredrik Algernon and his wife Dagmar.

Carl-Fredrik Algernon was accepted as a naval officer candidate in June 1944 and was commissioned as a naval officer and appointed acting sub-lieutenant in the Swedish Navy in September 1947.

Carl-Fredrik Algernon was promoted to sub-lieutenant in 1949 and did flight interaction training from 1955 to 1956 and completed the staff course at the Royal Swedish Naval Staff College from 1956 to 1957.

Carl-Fredrik Algernon was promoted to lieutenant in 1959 and was a member of the 1961 Defence Commission.

Carl-Fredrik Algernon became one of the few who in the Coastal Fleet was allowed to serve as ship commander and division commander at both motor torpedo boat units and torpedo boat units.

From 1964 to 1967, Carl-Fredrik Algernon served as a teacher of tactics at the Swedish Armed Forces Staff College and regionally in Gothenburg and in Karlskrona.

Carl-Fredrik Algernon was a member of the Navy Officer Investigation from 1969 to 1971 when he was promoted to captain.

Carl-Fredrik Algernon was vice chief at the staff of the Eastern Military District from 1972 to 1974 and chief of Section 2, the intelligence section, in the Defence Staff from 1974 to 1978 when he was promoted to rear admiral on 1 October.

Carl-Fredrik Algernon was head of the Military Office of the Minister of Defence from 1978 to 1979 and its subsequent agency, the Ministry of Defence's International Unit from 1979 to 1981 when he was appointed War Materials Inspector and head of the National Swedish War Materials Inspectorate, a governmental agency tasked with supervising and revise exports of war materiel to foreign countries.

At the so-called Bofors scandal in the mid-1980s, when the arms manufacturer Bofors was suspected of extensive smuggling of munitions to "illicit" countries around the Persian Gulf, Carl-Fredrik Algernon was appointed investigator.

Carl-Fredrik Algernon was accused, among other things, of having too lightly approved Bofors' request for arms exports to mainly Singapore.

Carl-Fredrik Algernon is said to have been on good terms with Bofors' CEO Martin Ardbo.

Carl-Fredrik Algernon died when he was hit by a train at the Stockholm metro station T-Centralen on 15 January 1987.

The police chose to initiate a criminal investigation when, among others, the train driver witnessed how Carl-Fredrik Algernon fell backwards on the track.

Former Minister of Trade and County Governor in the 1980s Bjorn Molin claims in his book Ingen vag tillbaka that Carl-Fredrik Algernon was murdered because he knew too much.

Carl-Fredrik Algernon was interred on 4 March 1987 at Norra begravningsplatsen in Stockholm.