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Fale Burman

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Fale Burman
Fale Faleson Burman GMSF.003002.jpg
Birth nameFale Faleson Burman
Born(1903-01-12)12 January 1903
Malmö, Sweden
Died6 September 1973(1973-09-06) (aged 70)
Solna, Sweden
Buried
Solna Cemetery
AllegianceSweden
Service/branchSwedish Army
Years of service1922–1968
RankLieutenant General
Commands heldGöta Life Guards
Inspector, Army Signal Troops
VII Military District
III Military District
RelationsKarl Amundson (father-in-law)

Lieutenant General Fale Faleson Burman (12 January 1903 – 6 September 1973) was a Swedish Army officer. Burman served as commander of Göta Life Guards (1951–1955), as Inspector of the Army Signal Troops (1955–1959) and as Commanding General of the VII Military District (1959–1963) and the III Military District (1963–1966).

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Generallöjtnant

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Swedish Army

Swedish Army

The Swedish Army is the land force of the Swedish Armed Forces.

Göta Life Guards (armoured)

Göta Life Guards (armoured)

The Göta Life Guards, designated P 1, was a Swedish Army armoured regiment that was active in various forms 1944–1980. The unit was based in the Enköping Garrison in Enköping and belonged to the King's Life and Household Troops until 1974.

Gotland Military Command

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Western Military District (Sweden)

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Western Military District, originally III Military District was a Swedish military district, a command of the Swedish Armed Forces that had operational control over Western Sweden, for most time of its existence corresponding to the area covered by the counties of Gothenburg and Bohus, Älvsborg, Skaraborg and Halland. The headquarters of Milo V were located in Skövde.

Early life

Burman was born on 12 January 1903 in Malmö garnisonsförsamling, Malmö, Sweden,[1] the son of Fale Burman, a captain in the cavalry, and his wife Cornelia Siwers.[2] He passed studentexamen at Nya Elementar in Stockholm in 1920.[3]

Career

Burman was commissioned as an officer in 1922 and was assigned as a second lieutenant to the Scanian Hussar Regiment in Helsingborg. He attended the Swedish Army Riding and Horse-Driving School from 1923 to 1924 and was promoted to underlöjtnant in 1924 and attended the Royal Central Gymnastics Institute from 1924 to 1926.[2] He was promoted to lieutenant in 1927 and served from 1928 in the Scanian Cavalry Regiment (Skånska kavalleriregementet).[4] Burman attended the General Course at the Artillery and Engineering College from 1928 to 1930 and the Higher Course there from 1930 to 1932.[5] He was an aspirant in the General Staff from 1933 to 1935, was promoted to captain in the General Staff in 1935 and was appointed ryttmästare in the Scanian Cavalry Regiment in 1936. He was head of the Equipment Office in the Organization Department in the General Staff and thereby made efforts in various areas of equipment during the strengthening of the Swedish defence in the late 1930s, including the acquisition of tanks.[3] In the years 1940–1941 he belonged to Jämtland Ranger Regiment and was department head at the Army Staff. In 1941, Burman was promoted to major in the General Staff Corps, whereupon he served as chief of staff of 2nd Army Division (II. arméfördelningen) from 1941 to 1942[6] and of the staff in the II Military District from 1942 to 1944.[7][8]

Burman was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1944 and served in the Scanian Armoured Regiment from 1944 to 1945, in Göta Armour Guards Regiment in 1946 and in Södermanland Armoured Regiment in 1946.[2] Burman served as military attaché in Ankara from 1948 to 1950, also in Athens and Tehran from 1949 to 1950. He was promoted to colonel in the Swedish Armoured Troops in 1949 and served in the Defence Staff.[2] In 1951 he was appointed commander of the Gotland Infantry Regiment[9] but before he took command, he was instead appointed executive commander of Göta Life Guards[10] - a post he came to hold from 1951 to 1955. Burman then served as Inspector of the Swedish Army Signal Troops in the Defence Staff from 1955 to 1959 when he was promoted to major general and appointed Commanding General of the VII Military District. He served in this position until 1963 when he was appointed Commanding General of the III Military District. From 1966 to 1968 Burman was at the Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces's disposal and in 1968 he retired from active service and was promoted to lieutenant general on the reserve list.[2]

Burman wrote articles for both military journals and the daily press.[11] In a obituary it says: "In speech and writing, he was happy to defend his views and there were often fights around him."[3] In 1969 he published the memoir Born to be a soldier.[12] He was an inspector at the higher general educational institution in Enköping from 1951 to 1955 and chairman of the Gotland Shooting Association (Gotlands skytteförbund) from 1960 to 1963.[11]

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General Staff (Sweden)

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Rittmeister

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Army Staff (Sweden)

Army Staff (Sweden)

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General Staff Corps

General Staff Corps

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Lower Norrland Military District

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Göta Life Guards (armoured)

Göta Life Guards (armoured)

The Göta Life Guards, designated P 1, was a Swedish Army armoured regiment that was active in various forms 1944–1980. The unit was based in the Enköping Garrison in Enköping and belonged to the King's Life and Household Troops until 1974.

Ankara

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Athens

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Defence Staff (Sweden)

Defence Staff (Sweden)

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Personal life

In 1926, Burman married Birgit Westman (born 1905), the daughter of envoy Gustaf Westman and Ester Janse. In 1951 he married Ingrid Gudrun Murray (1905–1980), the daughter of major general Karl Amundson (1873–1938) and Blenda Millberg (1878–1953).[2]

He had three children: Hubert (born 1927), Madeleine (born 1930) and Jan (born 1936).[11]

Death

Burman died on 6 September 1973 in Råsunda Parish, Solna Municipality.[1] He was interred at Solna Cemetery.[13]

Dates of rank

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Underlöjtnant

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Löjtnant

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Rittmeister

Rittmeister

Rittmeister is or was a military rank of a commissioned cavalry officer in the armies of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Scandinavia, and some other countries. A Rittmeister is typically in charge of a squadron, and is the equivalent of a Hauptmann rank with a NATO rank of OF-2. The various names of this rank in different languages were:Swedish: ryttmästare Danish: ritmester Norwegian: rittmester or rittmeister (nynorsk) German: Rittmeister Estonian: rittmeister

Kapten

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Major (Sweden)

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Överstelöjtnant

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Överste

Överste

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Generallöjtnant

Generallöjtnant

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Awards and decorations

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Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, Finland to the east, and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by a bridge–tunnel across the Öresund. At 447,425 square kilometres (172,752 sq mi), Sweden is the largest Nordic country, the third-largest country in the European Union, and the fifth-largest country in Europe. The capital and largest city is Stockholm. Sweden has a total population of 10.5 million, and a low population density of 25.5 inhabitants per square kilometre (66/sq mi), with around 87% of Swedes residing in urban areas, which cover 1.5% of the entire land area, in the central and southern half of the country.

Order of the Sword

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Order of Vasa

Order of Vasa

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Home Guard Medal of Merit

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Swedish Federation for Voluntary Defence Education and Training Medal of Merit

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Swedish Red Cross

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Honours

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Bibliography
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Military offices
Preceded by
Gustaf Aschan
 Göta Life Guards
1951–1955 		Succeeded by
Åke Wikland
Preceded by Inspector of the Swedish Army Signal Troops
1955–1959 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Commanding General, VII Military District
1959–1963 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Commanding General, III Military District
1963–1966 		Succeeded by
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