Eric of Rosen

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Count Eric of Rosen
of roses after a bear hunt with his prey, March 1904
Birgitta, Mary, Hermann Göring and Eric von Rosen at Rockelstad Castle , 1933

Count Carl Gustaf Bloomfield Eric von Rosen (born June 2, 1879 in Stockholm , † April 25, 1948 ibid) was a Swedish aristocrat , large landowner , explorer and ethnologist .

Life

Eric von Rosen was born on June 2, 1879 in Stockholm as the youngest son of Carl Gustav von Rosen and his wife Ella Carlton Moore. In 1905 he married Mary Fock, with whom he had a total of seven children. One of them died at an early age. One of his sons was the famous pilot Carl Gustav von Rosen . Eric von Rosen lived with his family at Rockelstad Castle , which he acquired at the age of 21 and owned other properties on Gotland. He owed his great financial fortune to an inheritance that he had acquired from his wife's father, an American paper industrialist. This wealth enabled him to undertake extensive research trips to South America and Africa. Von Rosen was one of the major supporters of National Socialism in Sweden, but withdrew from public debate from 1938.

Eric von Rosen died on April 25, 1948 at the age of 68.

Act

Because of his wealth, Eric von Rosen was able to pursue his interests and fund numerous research trips.

As early as 1901-1902 he took part in the Erland Nordenskiöld expedition to Argentina and the Bolivian Andes and had acquired knowledge of ethnography in advance. His task as part of the expedition was to carry out archaeological and ethnographic research. In 1909 he led a hunting and research expedition to the White Nile , from 1912 to 1913 he organized the "Swedish Rhodesia and Congo Expedition", which he undertook together with the botanist Robert Elias Fries . They crossed all of Africa from the Cape to Alexandria. The discovery of the Batwa tribe in the wetlands of the Congo is attributed to him. He left the extensive collection of ethnographies from South America and Rhodesia acquired during his research trips to the Ethnographic Museum Stockholm and the Ethnographic Museum of Gothenburg .

After an appeal by General Gustav Mannerheim , von Rosen supported the White Army in the Finnish Civil War by buying an airplane, on whose wing he had the swastika he often used in private and which he personally delivered to Finland on March 6, 1918. Based on an order from General Mannerheim dated March 6, 1918, this aircraft was considered to be the No. 1 aircraft of the Finnish Air Force, the Swastika was a military symbol of the Finnish Army until the end of World War II. March 6, 1918 is celebrated as the birthday of the Finnish Air Force to this day. As part of this trip, von Rosen also visits a Red Guards prison camp.

Eric von Rosen made a number of other trips inside and outside Sweden. They took him to Egypt, Sudan and Palestine in 1929. He also visited Germany several times, as did Finland and the Baltic states. He was particularly interested in nature and hunting. This led him repeatedly to Switzerland and Lapland, where he first climbed the Kebnekajse in 1932 .

His wife's sister, Carin von Kantzow , married Hermann Göring in 1923 , whom she had met on a von Rosens estate. The contact between Göring and Rosen continued after Carin Göring's death in 1931. Von Rosen is one of the co-founders of the NSB, the Swedish National Socialist Bloc, which from 1933 set itself the task of uniting the various National Socialist splinter groups in Sweden. He publishes in right-wing extremist magazines and was an important link between the National Socialist movement in Sweden and the National Socialist regime in Berlin. In the second half of the 1930s, von Rosen withdrew from his work for the National Socialists. The main reason for this is probably Mussolini's invasion of Abyssinia in 1935 and Hitler's invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1938/39, which he rejected.

Publications (selection)

  • Popular account of archaeological research during the Swedish Chaco-Cordilliera Expedition 1901-1902. Fritze. Stockholm, 1924.
  • From Cape to Cairo, research and adventure of the Swedish Rhodesia-Congo Expedition. Strecker and Schröder, Stuttgart 1924.
  • Från Kap till Alexandria. Albert Bonniers Förlag, Stockholm
  • Archaeological Researches on the Frontier of Argentina and Bolivia in 1901-02. A preliminary report. Nabu Press, 2010, ISBN 978-1-172-67069-7 .
  • The Chorotes Indians in the Bolivian Chaco. Ivar Haegström's Boktryckeri AB, Stockholm 1904.
  • The Mounds of Pucarà. In: Ymer. Tidskrift utgiven av Svenska Skällskapet för anthropology and geography. 1924, no. 2, pp. 181-191.
  • Vår Tid och Ungdomen. Albert Bonniers Förlag, Stockholm 1919.
  • Några Bestigningar och Rön i Lappmarken 1933–1935. Särtryck ur Till Fjälls 1936.
  • Chacofarare Beratta. Hugo Gebers Förlag, Stockholm.
  • En Förgången Värld. Albert Bonniers Förlag, 1919 Stockholm.
  • Träskfolket. Bonniers Förlag, Stockholm 1916.
  • Trolltiven. Editor Ernst Manker. Nordisk Rotogravyr, Stockholm 1952.

literature

  • Daniel B. Roth: Hitler's bridgehead in Sweden: the German legation in Stockholm. LIT Verlag, Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-643-10346-8 , p. 143. Restricted preview in the Google book search
  • Alvar N Nilsson: Svensk överklass och Högerextremism under 1900-talet. Stockholm, 2000.

Movie

Web links

Commons : Eric von Rosen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Official Website: Rockelstad Castle - History. Retrieved August 3, 2017 .
  2. ^ Collection of Eric von Rosen. Retrieved August 3, 2017 .
  3. ^ Karl N Alvar Nilsson: Överklassnazism - Eric von Rosen pa Rockelsta och andra överklassnazister. December 22, 2012. Retrieved August 3, 2017 (Swedish).
  4. ↑ Eric von Rosen Arkiv. Riksarkivet, accessed August 3, 2017 (Swedish).
personal data
SURNAME Rosen, Eric from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish discoverer of the Central African Batwa tribe
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1948
Place of death Stockholm