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Military Academy Karlberg

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Type
  
Military academy

Campus
  
Karlberg Palace

Founded
  
1792

Academic staff
  
120

Established
  
1792 (1792)

Phone
  
+46 8 514 390 00

Undergraduates
  
300

Military Academy Karlberg

Commander of the School
  
Colonel Mats Danielsson

Location
  
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Website
  
www.forsvarsmakten.se/en/

Address
  
Karlbergs slott, Karlbergs Slottsväg, 171 73 Solna, Sweden

Notable alumni
  
Folke Bernadotte, Johan August Gripenstedt, Bo I Andersson, Gillis Bildt

Similar
  
Swedish Defence University, Stockholm School of Economics, University of Skövde, Mid Sweden University, The Institute of Technolo

Profiles

Military Academy Karlberg (Swedish: Militärhögskolan Karlberg) is a Swedish military academy, since its inauguration in 1792 in operation in the Karlberg Palace in Solna, just north of central Stockholm. It is thus the oldest military academy in the world to remain in its original location.

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Swedish cadets join the academy as part of their three-year training as do officers aspiring to become navy lieutenants or army and air force captains.

As of 2007, the academy employs approximately 150 people and train some 300 officers annually. Notwithstanding Karlberg being a military institution, the palace and its park, classified as a historical monument of national interest, is accessible to the general public.

History

King Gustav III's ambitions to establish an academy for cadets at Ulriksdal Palace were cancelled following his death in 1792 as his wife Queen Sophia Magdalena wished to have that palace as a private residence. The Kungliga Krigsacademien ("Royal War Academy") was subsequently relocated to Karlberg Palace, the former royal summer residence, where the first generation of cadets began their education in November the same year.

Shortly after the death of the king, during the regency of Gustav IV Adolf, an enlargement was found necessary to accommodate the officers and construction work on the elongated pavilions of the palace commenced the following year to be accomplished to the design of Carl Christoffer Gjörwell three years later.

Until 1867 both navy and army cadets were educated at Karlberg, after which the two military educations were separated for 132 years before being unified again in 1999, since 2003 accompanied by air force officers.

Names

The various names of the Military Academy Karlberg:

References

Military Academy Karlberg Wikipedia