Lieutenant General Karl Åke Sagrén (26 January 1935 – 12 December 2022) was a Swedish Army officer.
[1] His father joined the Home Guard, the first day it was established and at the age of 15, Sagrén knew that he wanted to become an officer.
Sagrén served at the Life Grenadier Regiment (I 4) and the Army Ranger School from 1958 to 1967 and was completed the higher course of the Swedish Armed Forces Staff College from 1967 to 1969.
[3] He was promoted to major general in 1985 and on 1 October 1986, he assumed the position of chief of staff of the Upper Norrland Military District (Milo ÖN).
[9] Sagrén was chairman of the board of the Fältrittklubben from 1996 to 2001 (honorary member in 2001),[10] of the Army, Navy and Air Film (Föreningen Armé- Marin- och Flygfilm) from 1996 to 2001,[11] of the Försvarsfrämjandet from 2000[12] until its closure in 2004 and of the Swedish Fencing Federation (Svenska Fäktförbundet)[13] as well as the honorary general secretary of the Association of Home Guard Officers (Hemvärnsbefälets Riksförbund).