22 Facts About Fredrik Riben

Vice Admiral Carl Fredrik Wilhelm Riben was a senior Swedish Navy officer.

Fredrik Riben served as president of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences and chairman of the Directorate of the Swedish Nobility Foundation.

Fredrik Riben was born on 13 May 1868 at Lofsta farm in Habo-Tibble socken, Uppsala County, Sweden, the son of Axel Fredrik Riben and his wife Rosa Malm.

Fredrik Riben was the brother of Karl-Axel Riben, the head of the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm.

Fredrik Riben devoted himself to the naval profession from his earliest youth and already sailed in 1882 as an aspirant aboard the corvette Norrkoping.

Fredrik Riben was commissioned as a naval officer in the Swedish Navy in 1889 and was promoted to sub-lieutenant in 1891.

Fredrik Riben was a cadet officer at the Royal Swedish Naval Academy from 1896 to 1900 when he was promoted to lieutenant and then served in the Fleet Staff from 1900 to 1901.

Fredrik Riben served in the Nautical Department of the Royal Swedish Naval Materiel Administration from 1905 to 1912 when he was promoted to lieutenant commander.

Fredrik Riben was ordered to undergo torpedo training in Karlskrona and in the summer of 1912 was given command of the then equipped destroyer division, at the same time commander of the destroyer Hugin.

Fredrik Riben then served as head of the naval schools in Karlskrona from 1912 to 1914 and was promoted to commander in 1916.

Fredrik Riben was head of the Royal Swedish Naval Materiel Administration's Nautical Department from 1916 to 1918.

Fredrik Riben served as head of the Royal Swedish Naval Academy from 1918 to 1921 and in 1919 he was promoted to captain and served the same year as commander of the coastal defence ship division based on Oden.

Fredrik Riben was head of the Military Office of the Minister for Naval Affairs from 1921 to 1923 when he was promoted to rear admiral.

Fredrik Riben served as Commander-in-Chief of the Coastal Fleet from 1923 to 1925.

Fredrik Riben then served as commander-in-chief of Stockholm Naval Station from 1926 to 1933, during which time he was promoted to vice admiral in 1930.

Fredrik Riben retired from active duty and entered the reserves in 1933.

Fredrik Riben was an adviser on the organization of the central defence administration in 1921, chairman of the regulations advisers in 1922, member of the League of Nations' permanent advisory military commission from 1922 to 1926, military member of the Supreme Court of Sweden from 1925 to 1933 and adviser assistant in the League of Nations' preparatory disarmament commission from 1926 to 1930.

Fredrik Riben was elected chairman of the Directorate of the Swedish Nobility Foundation in 1941 succeeding Count Henning Wachtmeister who died the year before.

Fredrik Riben married in 1892 to Hildegard Elisabeth Neumuller, the daughter of brewery owner Friedrich Neumuller and his wife Emma Reuszner.

In 1903, Fredrik Riben married Emma Catharina Piehl, the daughter of the brewery director Carl Gustaf Piehl and Sofia Neumuller.

Fredrik Riben died on 26 April 1958 in Uddevalla on a temporary visit there.

Fredrik Riben was interred on 15 August 1950 at Sandsborgskyrkogarden in Stockholm.