17 Facts About Otto Lybeck

Admiral Otto Emil Lybeck was a Swedish Navy officer.

Otto Lybeck was born on 19 February 1871 in Stockholm, Sweden, the son of Johan August Otto Lybeck, a bank accountant, and his wife Emelie Carolina Sofia Klynder.

Otto Lybeck was a cadet at the Royal Swedish Naval Academy from 1886.

Otto Lybeck was commissioned as an officer in the Swedish Navy with the rank of underlojtnant in 1892.

Otto Lybeck was promoted to sub-lieutenant in 1895, and undertook language studies in Russia from 1895 to 1897, after which he served as Russian language teacher in the Naval Staff before attending the Royal Swedish Army Staff College from 1898 to 1900.

Otto Lybeck then served in the Fleet Staff for four years, and advancing to the rank of lieutenant in 1901.

Otto Lybeck served as adjutant to the Inspector of the Navy's Exercises at Sea, captain Wilhelm Dyrssen from 1904 to 1907, and as teacher of naval organizational learning at the Royal Swedish Naval Staff College from 1905 to 1909 and of strategy from 1910 to 1918.

Otto Lybeck was naval attache in Saint Petersburg from 1906 to 1911 and teacher of naval sciences at the Royal Swedish Army Staff College in 1908.

Otto Lybeck then served in the Naval Staff from 1909 to 1915.

Otto Lybeck was appointed head of the Military Office of the Ministry for Naval Affairs in 1918 and from 6 June to 13 October 1921, he served as Minister of Defence and head of the Ministry of Defence.

Otto Lybeck then served as commanding officer of the 4th Coastal Defence Ship Division from 1922 to 1923 and as Inspector of the Submarine Force in 1924.

Otto Lybeck was promoted to rear admiral in 1925 and in 1926 he was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Coastal Fleet.

In 1927, he was appointed Chief of the Naval Staff, a position Otto Lybeck had for the next nine years.

Otto Lybeck was chairman of the Naval Teaching Commission in 1928, and of the board of the Nautical Chart Department from 1929 to 1936.

Otto Lybeck was chairman of the board of the Royal Swedish Yacht Club from 1936 to 1946 and of the Swedish Sailing Federation from 1937.

Otto Lybeck served as a member of the Committee on Stockholm's Naval Station from 1929 to 1930.

Otto Lybeck was later interred on 2 May 1947 at Norra begravningsplatsen in Stockholm.