Sten Eggert Nauclér

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Nickname(s) Stessan Rank Major Other name Stessan Allegiance Sweden		Years of service 1939–1963 Died 5 November 1990 Service/branch Swedish Army
Birth name Sten-Eggert Vergenhanns Nauclér Born 24 September 1914Boden, Sweden ( 1914-09-24 ) Commands held Home Guard Combat School Battles/wars Winter WarContinuation WarKorean WarSuez CrisisCongo Crisis Battles and wars Winter War, Continuation War, Korean War, Suez Crisis, Congo Crisis

Sten-Eggert Vergenhanns Nauclér (24 September 1914 – 5 November 1990) was a Swedish Army officer who served in various conflict areas, in Swedish service, Ethiopian service and as a volunteer.

Career

Nauclér was born in Boden and was the son of lieutenant colonel Carl-Eggert Nauclér and Harriet (née Vasseur). He passed studentexamen in Stockholm in 1936 and became an officer in 1939. Nauclér became a second lieutenant at Life Grenadier Regiment (I 4) in 1939 and was platoon leader in the Swedish Volunteer Corps during the Winter War in Finland from 1939 to 1940. Furthermore, Nauclér was platoon leader and battalion commander during the Continuation War in Finland from 1941 to 1942 and back in Sweden he completed the general course at the Artillery and Engineering College in 1945.

He was a teacher at the Infantry Combat School (Infanteriets stridsskola) in 1945 and was promoted to captain in 1948. Nauclér travelled to Ethiopia and became a cadet officer at the Haile Selassie I Cadet School in 1948. He was chief adviser to the Ethiopian Kagnew Battalion during the Korean War from 1951 to 1952 and Ethiopian consul and head of the Ethiopian Liaison Section in Tokyo from 1951 to 1952. Nauclér was major and chief of Section III and the staff company of the Swedish UN Battalion I in Egypt in 1956. He was also head of the Swedish monitoring police at the Suez Canal in the aftermath of the Suez Crisis in 1957 and he was promoted to major in the Swedish Army in 1959.

Nauclér was colonel and commander of the Swedish UN Battalion XVI K in Congo during the Congo Crisis from May 1962 to October 1962 and he was sector commander in Katanga in 1962. He was commander of the Home Guard Combat School (Hemvärnets stridsskola) from 1957 to 1963 when he retired from military service. From 1963, Nauclér was chief of staff in Yekepa, Liberia for the mining corporation Lamco.

Personal life

In 1941 he married Gunn Johansson, the daughter of managing director Carl Johansson and his wife, (née Nilsson). He was the father of Marianne (born 1941), Carl-Eggert (born 1944) and Anders (born 1947). Nauclér was a member of Rotary International.