Samuel Åkerhielm

Lieutenant General Friherre Samuel Lars Åkerhielm af Blombacka (23 October 1887 – 15 January 1976) was a senior Swedish Army officer.

He held key positions, including heading the Royal Swedish Army Staff College and commanding the Svea Artillery Regiment.

[2] Åkerhielm was commissioned as an officer on 29 May 1908 and was assigned as underlöjtnant to the Svea Artillery Regiment on 31 December the same year.

[2] He was major and served as teacher at the Royal Swedish Army Staff College on 3 July 1930 and on 11 September 1931 he was appointed commander of the Norrbotten Artillery Corps (A 5).

[1] He left active service in 1953 and was promoted to lieutenant general and transferred to the military reserve.

[5] On 14 May 1913 in Stockholm, he married Frances Anna Margareta Reuterswärd (born 6 November 1891), the daughter of lieutenant colonel Carl Fredrik Casper Reuterswärd and Baroness Rosa Elisabet von Ungern-Sternberg.

They had one daughter, Margareta Elisabet, born 12 February 1915 in Svea artilleriregemente Parish in Stockholm.