Gustav Hesselblad


Gustaf Hesselblad was a Swedish physician. He served as Surgeon-in-Chief of the Swedish Army from 1960 to 1971 and head of the Swedish Army Medical Corps from 1960 to 1969.

Early life

Hesselblad was born on 29 May 1906 in Malmö Saint Petri Parish, Skåne County, Sweden, the son of Frans Gustaf Hesselblad, a factory manager, and his wife Elise Josefsson. He received a Licentiate of Medical Science degree from Lund University in 1933.

Career

Hesselblad held various doctor positions between 1933 and 1938, and served as first assistant physician in Visby in 1939. He became battalion surgeon in the Swedish Army Medical Corps in 1939 and served in the Svea Logistic Corps in 1940 and as health inspector in 1943. He was appointed army surgeon in the III Military District Staff in 1945 and became byråöverläkare in the Swedish [Armed Forces Centre for Defence Medicine|Medical Board of the Swedish Armed Forces] in 1953 and thus also became a member of the Medical Preparedness Committee of the National Swedish Board of Health from the same year.
Hesselblad served as Surgeon-in-Chief of the Swedish Army and head of the Swedish Army Medical Corps from 1960 to 1969 after which he served as Surgeon-in-Chief of the Swedish Army and head of the Medical Corps Office in the Medical Board of the Swedish Armed Forces from 1969 to 1971.

Death

Hesselblad died on 7 March 1989 in Oscar Parish, Stockholm.

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