Lars G. Persson
Lieutenant General Lars Göran Persson (born 13 May 1937) was a Swedish Coastal Artillery officer. Persson was Chief of the Naval Staff from 1987 to 1994 and Chief of Staff and Military Commander of the Northern Military District from 1996 to 1998. Early life. Persson was born on 13 May 1937 in Göteborgs Carl Johans Parish, Gothenburg, Sweden the son of Samuel Persson, an traffic inspector, and his wife Hanna (née Samuelson). Persson passed "studentexamen" in 1957. Career. He graduated from the Royal Swedish Naval Academy and was commissioned as a naval officer in 1960 with the  rank of second lieutenant the same year and assigned to Gotland Coastal Artillery Corps, where he served as a platoon leader from 1960 to 1964. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1962, and served as platoon leader and artillery battery commander in Älvsborg Coastal Artillery Regiment from 1964 to 1967, and attended the Swedish Armed Forces Staff College from 1967 to 1970. He was promoted to captain in 1968 and served from 1970 to 1972 in the Naval Operations Department at the staff of the Southern Military District. In 1972, Persson was promoted first to major and later the same  year to lieutenant colonel, whereupon he was assigned as a strategy teacher at the Swedish Armed Forces Staff College from 1972 to 1976. Persson attended the Marine Corps Command and Staff College at Marine Corps Base Quantico in United States from 1973 to 1974 and was head of the Swedish Coastal Artillery's Personnel and Organization Department in Section 4 of the Naval Staff from 1976 to 1980. After being battalion commander in Vaxholm Coastal Artillery Regiment in 1981, Persson was promoted to colonel in 1981 and then served as commander of the regiment from 1981 to 1983. He was  promoted to senior colonel in 1983 and served as commanding officer of Norrland Coastal Artillery Defence ("Norrlands kustartilleriförsvar") and the Härnösand Coastal Artillery Regiment (KA 5) in Härnösand from 1983 to 1984 and as head of Operations Section 2 at the Operations Command in the Defence Staff from 1984 to 1987. In 1987, he was promoted to major general, after which he was Chief of the Naval Staff from 1987 to 1994. From 1994 to 1996, he was operations manager for international affairs at the Operations Command in the Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters and was Chief of Staff of the  Northern Military District in 1996. Later that year (1996) he was promoted to lieutenant general, whereupon he served as military commander inof the Northern Military District from 1996 to 1998. Persson retired from the military in 1998. From 1998 to 2003, Persson was active as a military adviser in Latvia. Personal life. In 1960, he married Barbro Göttberg (born 1937), the daughter of Sven Göttberg and Torborg (née Sanderson).