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[[Rear admiral (Sweden)|Rear Admiral]] '''Carl-Fredrik Robert Algernon''' (9 October 1925 – 15 January 1987) was a [[Swedish Navy]] officer. Algernon was head of the [[National Swedish War Materials Inspectorate]] from 1981 to 1987.

==Career==
Algernon was born on 9 October 1925 in [[Stockholm]], Sweden, the son of head of department Carl Algernon and his wife Dagmar (née Alderin).<ref name="Vem är det (1984), p. 39">{{cite book |date=1984 |title=Vem är det: svensk biografisk handbok. 1985 |trans-title=Who is it: Swedish biographical handbook. 1985 |location=Stockholm |publisher=Norstedt |language=Swedish |isbn=91-1-843222-0 |url=http://runeberg.org/vemardet/1985/0039.html |page=39}}</ref> He became acting sub-lieutenant in 1947 and was promoted to sub-lieutenant in 1949. Algernon did flight interaction education from 1955 to 1956 and completed the staff course at the [[Royal Swedish Naval Staff College]] from 1956 to 1957. Algernon was promoted to lieutenant in 1959, was a member of the 1961 Defense Commission and was staff adjutant in the [[Coastal Fleet]] from 1962 to 1964 and was a lecturer at the [[Swedish Defence University|Swedish National Defence College]] from 1964 to 1967.<ref name="Vem är det (1984), p. 39"/> He became a member of the [[Royal Swedish Society of Naval Sciences]] in 1965.<ref name="Vem är det (1984), p. 39"/>

He was promoted to lieutenant commander in 1965 and to commander in 1966 and was a member of the Navy Officer Investigation from 1969 to 1971 when he was promoted to captain. Algernon was commanding officer of the 1st Destroyer Flotilla (''Första jagarflottiljen'', 1. jaflj) from 1971 to 1972 when he was promoted to captain of the 1st rank. He was vice chief at the staff of [[Eastern Military District (Sweden)|Eastern Military District]] (Milo Ö) from 1972 to 1974 and chief of Section 2 in the [[Defence Staff (Sweden)|Defence Staff]] from 1974 to 1978 when he was promoted to rear admiral. Algernon served afloat on various types of ships in the Swedish Navy during 1947-55, 1958-64, 1968-69 and 1971-72.<ref name="Vem är det (1984), p. 39"/> He was head of the [[Military Office of the Ministry of Defence|Military Office of the Minister of Defence]] from 1978 to 1979 and its subsequent agency, the [[Ministry of Defence (Sweden)|Ministry of Defence]]'s International Unit (''Försvarsdepartementets internationella enhet'', Fö/INT) from 1979 to 1981<ref name="Vem är det (1984), p. 39"/> when he was appointed head of the [[National Swedish War Materials Inspectorate]], a governmental agency tasked with supervising and revise exports of war materiel to foreign countries.

==Bofors scandal and death==
At the outbreak of the [[Bofors scandal]] in the late 1980s he became one of the leading investigators into the scandal despite the fact that he was a personal friend of the CEO of Bofors, [[Martin Ardbo]], for many years.

Algernon died when he was hit by a train at the [[Stockholm metro]] station [[T-Centralen]] on 15 January 1987.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nwt.se/karlskoga-degerfors/2016/09/03/statsrad-talar-om-bofors-under |newspaper=[[Nya Wermlands-Tidningen]] |title=Statsråd talar om Bofors under turbulent 1980-tal |first=Benny |last=Abrahamsson |date=2016-09-03 |access-date=22 November 2017 |language=Swedish |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201034142/https://nwt.se/karlskoga-degerfors/2016/09/03/statsrad-talar-om-bofors-under |archive-date=1 December 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Earlier on the day he had a meeting with the CEO of [[Nobel Industrier]] (the new owners of Bofors), Anders Carlberg, about the allegations of smuggling against the company. During the conversation, Carlberg had told Algernon about an internal investigation which had confirmed that smuggling had existed. Due to Algernon's position as a leading investigator of the Bofors scandal, it was speculated that he might have been [[Assassination|assassinated]] (i.e. pushed down on the railway). The subsequent investigation into his death, which ended on 11 March 1987, concluded that he had committed [[suicide]].

==Personal life==
In 1947 he married Margareta Erlandson (born 1925), the daughter of construction engineer Harald Erlandson and Signe (née Hallgren).<ref name="Vem är det (1984), p. 39"/>

==Dates of rank==
*1947 – Acting Sub-Lieutenant (''Fänrik'')
*1949 – Sub-Lieutenant (''Löjtnant'')
*1959 – [[Kapten#Navy|Lieutenant]]
*1965 – [[Kommendörkapten|Lieutenant commander]]
*1966 – [[Kommendörkapten|Commander]]
*1971 – [[Kommendör|Captain]]
*1972 – [[Kommendör av 1. graden|Senior captain]]
*1978 – [[Rear admiral (Sweden)|Rear admiral]]

==See also==
*[[Cats Falck]]
*[[Claes-Ulrik Winberg]]

==References==
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| before = [[Dag Arvas]]
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| title = {{no wrap|[[National Swedish War Materials Inspectorate|Military Equipment Inspector]]}}
| years = 1981–1987
| before = Sven Olof Olin
| after = [[Sven Hirdman]]
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[[Category:1925 births]]
[[Category:1987 deaths]]
[[Category:Swedish Navy rear admirals]]
[[Category:Bofors scandal]]
[[Category:Military personnel from Stockholm]]
[[Category:Swedish military personnel who committed suicide]]
[[Category:Members of the Royal Swedish Society of Naval Sciences]]
[[Category:20th-century Swedish military personnel]]
[[Category:Suicides by jumping in Sweden]]

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