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Bengt Junker (21 June 1913 – 18 February 1970 Stockholm)[1] was a Swedish Scouting notable,[2] head of the Sveriges Scoutförbund from 1951 to 1956 and from 1958 to 1966.[3] In 1951 he succeeded Lennart Bernadotte, and in 1958 he succeeded Gösta Lewenhaupt.[4] He was the last Scout manager of Sveriges Scoutförbund, and became the first chairman of the Svenska Scoutförbundet, formed by the merger of the Sveriges Scoutförbund and the Sveriges Flickors Scoutförbund.[5] Junker was also instrumental in the start of the Swedish Scout Association's college sv:Kjesäters Folkhögskola, when in 1960 Vingåker Municipality sold Kesätters Castle to Sveriges Scoutförbund.

He was a 1949 recipient of the Silver Wolf, the highest commendation in Swedish Scouting.

1. ^ Sveriges dödbok 1901–2009, DVD-ROM, Version 5.00, Sveriges Släktforskarförbund (2010): Junker, Bengt
2. ^ John S. Wilson (1959), Scouting Round the World. First edition, Blandford Press. p. 271
3. ^ "Scouthistoria i årtal". Archived from the original on 2017-11-09. Retrieved 2016-11-08.
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