page_title: Paulus af Uhr
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Paulus af Uhr / Career
caption_attribution_description: Svenska: Motiv: Porträtt av löjtnant Paulus af Uhr, militär flygförare. Tillhör Gamla Malmen-samlingen. GM 1074. Ur Flygvapenmuseums bildarkiv.
context_page_description: Major General Paulus Reinhold af Uhr was a Swedish Air Force officer.
context_section_description: af Uhr was born on 25 January 1892 in Bondkyrka, Uppsala County, Sweden, the son of builder Otto af Uhr and Anna (née Ferm). He passed studentexamen in Uppsala on 31 May 1911 and became a volunteer in the Life Regiment Grenadiers (I 3) on 2 June 1911. af Uhr was transferred to the Jämtland Ranger Regiment (I 23) on 1 June 1912. About a month later, af Uhr finished 23rd in the high jump competition during the 1912 Summer Olympics.
  He became an officer on 18 December 1913 and was commissioned as a underlöjtnant in the Jämtland Ranger Regiment on 31 December the same year. af Uhr participated in the Baltic Games during the Baltic Exhibition in Malmö in 1914. af Uhr was promoted to lieutenant in the Jämtland Ranger Regiment on 11 February 1916 and then served in the aviation services of the Field Telegraph Corps from 1918 to 1919. He then became captain in the newly established Swedish Air Force on 29 June 1926 and in the Jämtland Ranger Regiment on 30 December the same year. af Uhr was educated at the Royal Swedish Army Staff College from 1931 to 1933 and was promoted to major in the Swedish Air Force on 25 July 1934.
  af Uhr was appointed head of the Education Department at the Air Staff in 1934 and was then head of the Operation Department at the Air Staff from 1936 to 1937. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel on 30 April 1937 and was appointed chief of the Military Office of the Air Force (Flygvapnets kommandoexpedition) the same year. af Uhr was promoted to colonel on 22 June 1939 (effective from 1 July) and was appointed commanding officer of the First Air Group (E 1) on 1 July 1942. He was promoted to major general on 1 April 1946 and left the position at the First Air Group in 1952 when he became Vice CEO of Östermans Aero AB. af Uhr left Östermans in 1957.
caption: Lieutenant af Uhr.
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