Swedish Engineer Troops


The Swedish Engineer Troops is the engineer branch of the Swedish Army. Swedish Engineer Troops were formed after the Defence Act of 1936. It consist today of a single unit, the Göta Engineer Regiment and two schools, the Swedish Army Field Work School and the EOD School

History

Already in the 1600s and 1700s, special engineer or pioneer units were organized. Fortifikationen was established in 1635 as a special corps for construction of fortifications. The task of Fortifikationen was to build and maintain the country's land and coastal fortifications and other military buildings, etc. In 1811, the Fortifikationen was amalgamated with the Field Surveying Corps and formed the Engineer Corps. This consisted, among other things, of a fortification brigade. In 1867 the Engineer Corps was renamed the Fortifikationen. From 1855, sapper companies, pontoon battalion, field-signaling company and engineer troops were added to the Fortifikationen. The service branch grew strongly towards the late 1800s and in 1901 there were four corps; Svea Engineer Corps, Göta Engineer Corps, Field Telegraph Corps, and Boden Engineer Corps.
According to the Defence Act of 1925, the Swedish Engineer Troops now came to consist of two field engineering corps, the Field Telegraph Corps and Boden Engineer Corps. Svea Engineer Corps was organized on a corps staff, two field engineering companies, two military bridge companies, a fortress engineering company and a ordnance company. Göta Engineer Corps was organized on a corps staff, three field engineering companies, a military bridge company, a fortress engineering company and a ordnance company. The Field Telegraph Corps was organized on corps staff, two field telegraph companies, two radio companies and an ordnance company. The Boden Engineer Corps was organized on a corps staff, a field engineering company, a fortress engineering company, a military bridge company, a telegraph company and a ordnance company.
The Swedish Engineer Troops constituted after the Defence Act of 1936 a special service branch, including three engineer corps: Svea Engineer Corps in Solna, Göta Engineer Corps in Eksjö and Boden Engineer Corps in Boden. It was established when the Fortifikationen was split into the Swedish Engineer Troops, Swedish Army Signal Troops and the Swedish Fortification Corps. A school to train officers in the engineer troops and to train other officers in the field working service was established in 1943 under the name Engineer Troop School. It changed its name in 1952 to the Swedish Army School of Field Works. On 1 June 1981 the Swedish Engineers Officer Candidate School was amalgamated with the Swedish Army School of Field Works. It ceased and was part of the Swedish Army Field Works Center from 1 July 1991.
The Swedish Army Field Works Center was disbanded in 1997 and the Swedish Army Field Work School continued operations together with the EOD School, both sorting under Göta Engineer Regiment which since 2005 is the only remaining active engineer unit in the Swedish Engineer Troops.

Units

DesignationYearsUnitLocation
Ing 11855–1864Sapper CompanyStockholm
Ing 11864–1866Sapper CorpsStockholm
Ing 11867–1892Pontoon BattalionStockholm
Ing 11893–1902Svea Engineer BattalionStockholm
Ing 11902–1957Svea Engineer CorpsStockholm –1922
Solna 1922–
Ing 11957–1994Svea Engineer RegimentSolna –1970
Södertälje 1970–
Ing 11994–1997Svea Engineer CorpsSödertälje
Ing 21873–1876Sapper CompanyStockholm –1875
Karlsborg 1875–
Ing 21876–1878Sapper TroopKarlsborg
Ing 21878–1892Sapper BattalionKarlsborg
Ing 21893–1902Göta Engineer BattalionKarlsborg
Ing 21902–1963Göta Engineer Corps;
one company in Karlskrona, Ing 2K 1908–1937		Karlsborg –1928
Eksjö 1928–
Ing 21963–1994Göta Engineer RegimentEksjö
Ing 21994–2000Göta Engineer CorpsEksjö
Ing 22000–Göta Engineer RegimentEksjö
Ing 31902–1937Field Telegraph Corps;
one company in Boden 1915–
one company in Malmen 1916–1926, see S 1		Stockholm/Solna
Ing 31957–1975Boden Engineer Corps
see Ing 4		Boden
Ing 31975–1994Boden Engineer RegimentBoden
Ing 31994–2000Norrland Engineer CorpsBoden
Ing 32000–2005Norrland Engineer BattalionBoden
Ing 32006–2011Norrland Engineer CompanyBoden
Ing 41902–1937Norrland Engineer Corps
see Ing 3		Boden
Ing 51914–1920Norrland Engineer Corps
Was never raised		Östersund

Inspector of the Swedish Engineer Troops

The head of the Engineer Troops was called Ingenjörinspektören. In the years 1966-1991, the Engineer Troops and the Signal Troops had a joint branch inspector; the Inspector of the Swedish Army Engineer Corps and Signal Corps. From 1991, the two branches received an inspector each, and the title of the engineer troops was shortened to the Engineer Inspector. In connection with the decommissioning of Swedish Army Field Work Center, the position of Engineer Inspector disappeared.

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