Lieutenant General Karl Birger Hedqvist (13 May 1894 – 24 February 1964) was a Swedish Army officer.

[3] After a tour of duty, he was assigned as an adjutant in the Artillery Inspectorate (Artilleriinspektionen) in the Army Staff in 1922.

[3][8] His first five years as Master-General of the Ordnance 1949–54 were characterized by difficult investigations of an organizational nature.

[3] When the Ordnance Department of the Royal Swedish Army Materiel Administration on 1 July 1954 was transformed into the independent authority Royal Swedish Army Ordnance Administration[9] with the Chief of the Army as head of authority,[10] Hedqvist was served as vice chief of the authority in his capacity as Master-General of the Ordnance until 1959,[11][12] when he transferred to the reserve as lieutenant general.

[13] In his capacity as vice chief, Hedqvist was also a member of the Administration Board of the Swedish Armed Forces.

On 16 February 1956 in Stockholm, he married Sonja Elisabet Carlson (28 June 1898 in Degerfors – 11 April 1986).