Bror Munck (Swedish general)

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Bror Munck
Bror Munck in 1931.
Birth nameBror Oliver Claes Munck af Fulkila
Born(1857-10-21)21 October 1857
Jönköping, Sweden–Norway
Died18 July 1935(1935-07-18) (aged 77)
Stockholm, Sweden
Buried
Norra begravningsplatsen
AllegianceSweden
Service/branchSwedish Army
Years of service1877–1922
RankLieutenant General
Commands held

Lieutenant General Friherre Bror Oliver Claes Munck af Fulkila (21 October 1857 – 18 July 1935) was a Swedish Army officer. Munck served as commanding officer of the Crown Prince's Hussar Regiment, the Life Guards of Horse, as the Inspector of the Cavalry and as commanding officer of the 3rd Army Division. He is also known as the organizer and head of the so-called Munckska kåren, a secret right-wing paramilitary group.

Early life[edit]

Munck was born on 21 October 1857 in Jönköping, Sweden, the son of the colonel and the regimental commander of the then Jönköping Regiment Carl Jacob Munck and his wife in the second marriage, baroness Henriette Ulrika Antoinetta Carolina Cederström and thus brother to the princess Ebba Bernadotte. His father's family was probably of Finnish origin and dates back to the 16th century. The mother was the daughter of the "hero from Bornhöft", later the General Friherre Bror Cederström, who for his bravery in the battle in this place became the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Sword, the highest military award in Sweden. Munck is named after this grandfather, and he also became a cavalryman.[1] Munck was promoted to vice corporal in Småland Hussar Regiment in 1874 and passed mogenhetsexamen the following year.[1]

Career[edit]

Munck graduated from the Military Academy Karlberg, where he in 1877 he was appointed underlöjtnant. As such, he was commissioned as a messenger officer (ordonnansofficer) in the 2nd Army Division (II. arméfördelningen) from 1883 to 1887.[1] In the latter year he was promoted to lieutenant and later served from 1892 to 1895 as the messenger officer of the Inspector of the Cavalry, during which time he served as secretary of the Committee for the Revision of the Exercise Regulations for the Cavalry. Later, he advanced as a ryttmästare in the Swedish Army in 1896 and in the regiment in 1897.[1] He participated in imperial military exercises in Germany in 1901, and served as commanding officer of the Cavalry School (Kavalleriskolan) from 1902 to 1903, and was a member of the Army Delegate (Arméns fullmäktige) in 1902.[2]

He was promoted to major in the Scanian Dragoon Regiment (Skånska dragonregementet) in 1904.[2] Munck served with the 7th German Ulan Regiment and 16th German Dragoon Regiment in 1906. In 1906 he was appointed lieutenant colonel of the Life Regiment Dragoons and two years later he became colonel and commanding officer of the Crown Prince's Hussar Regiment before transferring in 1913 to the Life Guards of Horse where he served as executive officer for two years.[1] Munck was promoted to major general in 1915 and served as Inspector of the Cavalry from 1915 to 1917, and then as commanding officer of the 3rd Army Division (III. arméfördelningen) from 1917 to 1922 when he retired and was promoted to lieutenant general.[2]

Munck was a leading expert in cavalry and equestrian sports, and represented the Swedish Army on several occasions abroad. He was also known as the organizer and head of the so-called Munckska kåren,[3] a secret right-wing paramilitary group. Munck was also chairman of the executive board of the King's Hospital (Konungens hospital), a member of numerous committees for investigations of military issues, attended by the King of Italy in 1913, and the State Regent of Finland Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim in 1919. He was also the Swedish Army's representative to the funeral of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria in 1916 and at a ceremony in Fredrikshald on King Charles XII's day of death, as well as the Swedish Army officer's representative at the horse races at 1924 Summer Olympics.

Personal life[edit]

On 20 October 1886 in Stockholm, Munck married Baroness Ebba Elisabet De Geer af Leufsta (born 15 December 1863 in Frötuna), the daughter of Marshal of the Court, Friherre Louis De Geer af Leufsta, and his first wife Vendla Mariana Johanna Sofia von Wright.[4]

Death[edit]

Munck died on 16 February 1935 in Oscar Parish, Stockholm.[4] He was buried in Norra begravningsplatsen in Stockholm on 23 February 1935.[5]

Dates of rank[edit]

Awards and decorations[edit]

Honours[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e "BROR MUNCK. _ JOHN AMÉEN". Hvar 8 dag (in Swedish). 17 (12). Göteborg: D. F. Bonniers boktryckeri A.-B.: 178 19 December 1915. SELIBR 786775.
  2. ^ a b c Vem är det: svensk biografisk handbok. 1933 [Who is it: Swedish biographical handbook. 1933] (in Swedish). Stockholm: Norstedt. 1932. p. 598.
  3. ^ Kjellberg, H.E., ed. (1936). Svenska Dagbladets årsbok Trettonde årgången (händelserna 1935) (in Swedish). Stockholm: Svenska Dagbladet. p. 257.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Munck af Fulkila nr 130". www.adelsvapen.com (in Swedish). Retrieved 5 September 2019.
  5. ^ "Munck, BROR OLIVER CLAES". www.svenskagravar.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 5 September 2019.
  6. ^ a b c Sveriges statskalender för året 1931 (in Swedish). Uppsala: Fritzes offentliga publikationer. 1931. p. 237.
  7. ^ "VECKANS PORTRATTGALLERI". Hvar 8 dag (in Swedish). 9 (20). Göteborg: D. F. Bonniers boktryckeri A.-B.: 318 16 February 1908. SELIBR 786775.

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Military offices
Preceded by
Gustaf Nyblæus
 Inspector of the Cavalry
1915–1917 		Succeeded by
Thorsten Rudenschöld
Preceded by
Christofer von Platen
 3rd Army Division
1917–1922 		Succeeded by
Axel Carleson
Professional and academic associations
Preceded by President of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences
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