Carl De Geer (politician)

Carl de Geer

Carl de Geer (born March 8, 1747 , † January 13, 1805 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish baron and politician.

Life

Carl de Geer was a son of Carl de Geer (1720–1778) and his wife Katarina Charlotta Ribbing (1720–1787). Carl de Geer joined the Swedish Life Guard as an ensign in 1762 , but ended his military career just two years later. After his father's death in 1778, he inherited the Fideikommiss Leufsta and was considered Sweden's richest magnate. He became a member of the Reichstag and immediately joined the opposition party. In 1786 he took the side of Axel von Fersen the Elder. Ä. and played a major role in its success. He contacted the Russian ambassador Arkady Ivanovich Morkov , who visited him on Leufsta. He also maintained friendly relationships with his successor, Andrei Kirillowitsch Rasumowski . In 1789, de Geer was at the head of the opposition in the Ritterhaus, which tried to persuade the king to make constitutional concessions. He was then arrested along with other opposition nobles and excluded from political life. In 1790 he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. De Geer married Ulrica Elisabeth von Liewen in 1770 and Eleonore Vilhelmina von Höpken in 1777, daughter of the Imperial Councilor Anders Johan von Höpken . His son Carl de Geer (1781–1861) married Baroness Ulrika Sofia Sprengtporten in 1810. Their only daughter Sofia Eleonora Charlotta (1813–1888) married Baltzar Julius Ernst von Platen .

Carl de Geer was buried in Uppsala Cathedral.

literature

• Carl De Geer . In: Herman Hofberg, Frithiof Heurlin, Viktor Millqvist, Olof Rubenson (eds.): Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon . 2nd Edition. tape 1 : A-K . Albert Bonniers Verlag, Stockholm 1906, p. 226 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).