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Place of Birth: Nässjö Municipality, Jönköping County, Sweden
About Johan Hederstedt
- Johan Ivar Hederstedt (born 26 August 1943) is Swedish Army general.
- Hederstedt became an officer in 1966 and served at Älvsborg Regiment (I 15) and Northern Småland Regiment (I 12) in the 1960s and 1970s.
- Hederstedt served with UNFICYP in Cyprus and UNIFIL in Lebanon before becoming commanding officer of the Life Guards Brigade (MekIB 1) in 1988.
- He was commanding officer of the Western Army Division from 1993 to 1996 and was International Operations Commander at the Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters.
- Hederstedt was then Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces from 2000 to 2003.
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