Lieutenant General Lars Göran Persson (born 13 May 1937) was a Swedish Coastal Artillery officer.
[3] He was promoted to captain in 1968[5] and served from 1970 to 1972 in the Naval Operations Department at the staff of the Southern Military District.
[3] In 1972, Persson was promoted first to major and later the same year to lieutenant colonel,[5] 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[3] and was head of the Swedish Coastal Artillery's Personnel and Organization Department in Section 4 of the Naval Staff from 1976 to 1980.
He was promoted to senior colonel on 1 April 1983 and assumed the position as commanding officer of Norrland Coastal Artillery Defence (Norrlands kustartilleriförsvar) and the Härnösand Coastal Artillery Regiment (KA 5) in Härnösand.