Dennis Gyllensporre

Tage Dennis Gyllensporre, né Öztürkmen (born 14 January 1946) is a Swedish Army lieutenant general. Since 2014, Gyllensporre serves as Director Joint Staff, head of the Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters, head of the Swedish Armed Forces Special Forces and as the Commandant General in Stockholm.

Career
Gyllensporre was born in Skellefteå, Sweden, the son of school counselor Güray Öztürkmen and his first wife Irene Johansson. He and two brothers took the name Gyllensporre. He attended the Royal Institute of Technology from 1985 to 1991 when he received a Master of Science in Computer Science. He became an officer in the Swedish Armed Forces in 1987 and served as platoon leader and company commander at Norrland Signal Regiment (S 3) in Boden from 1987 to 1995. During this time Gyllensporre also studied at the Swedish National Defence College from 1993 to 1994 and from 1995 to 1997 and he attended the University of Warwick from 1994 to 1997 when he received a Master of Business Administration in Corporate Strategy. He then served as a Nordic-Polish Brigade Liaison Officer to the US Division Headquarters (SFOR) in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1997 to 1998. Back in Sweden, Gyllensporre served as a Desk Officer for National and NATO/PfP Defence in the Planning Staff (J 5) at the Sweden Armed Forces Headquarters in Stockholm from 1998 to 2000.

He then attended the United States Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth in the United States from 2000 to 2001 when he received a Master of Military Arts and Science. Back in Sweden, Gyllensporre served as battalion commander, Headquarters Battalion, at Norrbotten Regiment (I 19) in Boden from 2001 to 2002 and was then military advisor in Department for International and Security Affairs of the Ministry of Defence from 2001 to 2003. Gyllensporre served as Chief Operations Officer of the Joint Military Mission in Nuba Mountains, Sudan from 2003 to 2004 before returning to Ministry of Defence in Stockholm the same year. In 2005 Gyllensporre passed the Joint and Combined Warfighting School (JCWS) at the Joint Forces Staff College, National Defense University in the United States. The same year he also served as Chief of Staff in the Joint Forces Command (Operativa insatsledningen, OPIL) in Uppsala. Gyllensporre then served as Chief of Doctrine and Concepts Branch, Policy & Plans Division, European Union Military Staff in Brussels, Belgium from 2005 to 2008.

From January 2007 to November 2010, he attended the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance in Maastricht, Netherlands where he received a PhD in Policy Analysis and Governance. During this time Gyllensporre also served as Chief of Staff of the Regional Command North Headquarters of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan in 2008. Also in 2008, he was appointed Chief of Staff of the Joint Staff (Ledningsstaben) in the Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters in Stockholm. In 2010 he left the position and was appointed Director Future Capabilities in the Joint Staff (Chef för Ledningsstabens utvecklingsavdelning) in Sweden Armed Forces Headquarters, Stockholm. In 2011 he attended the Defense Resources Management Institute at the Naval Postgraduate School in United States. From 2012 to 2014, Gyllensporre served as military advisor in the Swedish Parliamentary Defence Commission (Försvarsberedningen) as well as head of Plans and Policy Department in the Joint Staff (Chef för Ledningsstabens inriktningsavdelning) in the Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters in Stockholm. On 27 November 2014, Gyllensporre was appointed Director Joint Staff (Chef för Ledningsstaben) In this position he is also the head of the Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters, head of the Swedish Armed Forces Special Forces and the Commandant General in Stockholm.

Personal life
In 1992 he married Helena Nordgren (born 1965). They have three children (born 1991, 1993 and 1997).

Dates of rank

 * 1987 – Fänrik
 * 1988 – Lieutenant
 * 1991 – Captain
 * 1994 – Major
 * 2000 – Lieutenant Colonel
 * 2005 – Colonel
 * 2010 – Colonel 1st Class
 * 2012 – Major General
 * 2014 – Lieutenant General

Honours

 * Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences (2011)
 * Member of the International Hall of Fame, United States Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC) (2017)
 * Dwight D. Eisenhower Award as top international graduate of the CGSC (2001)