Yngve Stiernspetz

Efter avlagd studentexamen 1907 blev han volontär vid Positionsartilleriregementet, och efter officersexamen 1910 avancerade han där till löjtnant 1914 och kapten 1925. Två år senare övergick han till Smålands arméartilleriregemente. Han blev riddare av Svärdsorden 1931.

Stiernspetz ingick i det svenska gymnastiklaget som tog guld i trupptävlan vid Olympiska sommarspelen 1912. Han avlade 1917 examen vid Gymnastiska centralinstitutet.

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Yngve Stiernspetz , born April 27, 1887 in Eksjö , died April 4, 1945 on Lidingö , was a Swedish military and gymnast .

Yngve Stiernspetz was the youngest son of the railway engineer Herman Valentin Stiernspetz (1847–1917) and his wife Anna Maria Viktorine Hagström (1857-1939 ). After graduating in 1907, he became a volunteer with the Position Artillery Regiment , and after graduating as an officer in 1910, he advanced there to lieutenant in 1914 and captain in 1925. Two years later, he transferred to Småland's Army Artillery Regiment . He became a knight of the Order of the Sword in 1931.

Stiernspetz was part of the Swedish gymnastics team that won gold in the team competition at the 1912 Summer Olympics . In 1917 he graduated from the Central Gymnastics Institute .

Yngve Stiernspetz was from 1928 married to Vera Maria Sandström (1898-1986 ), daughter of the manager Esaias Johannes Sandström and Sigrid Maria Blommert.