Vice Admiral Johan Erik Samuelson (16 April 1893 – 15 December 1964) was a senior Swedish Navy officer.

Samuelson also served aboard coastal defence ships and the cruiser HSwMS Fylgia during a trip to the Caribbean.

[1] Samuelson served as a teacher in tactics at the Royal Swedish Naval Staff College from 1936 to 1939 and was promoted to lieutenant commander in 1937.

There he made a great profit from producing and arranging for the school to move from the old premises on Skeppsholmen to the new establishment at the Näsby Castle area.

In connection with this, he organized a uniform and effective practical training for all categories of future officers in the navy.

[2] He was also vice chairman of the Swedish Association of Army, Navy and Air Force Officers (Svenska officersförbundet) from 1943 to 1944.

[6] After Samuelson retired, his vast experience concerning seafarers and their conditions was used within the Föreningen för skandinaviska sjömanshem i utländska hamnar ("Association of Scandinavian Seamen's Homes in Foreign Ports").

In order to better assess the issues that could come up during his trial, he visited in 1963 as chairman of the Swedish branch of the association several of the sailors' homes in southern and western Europe.