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2 unusual facts about Wachtmeister


Alice Trolle-Wachtmeister

On 23 February 2012, along with Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, the Speaker of the Parliament Per Westerberg and the Marshal of the Realm Svante Lindqvist, Countess Trolle-Wachtmeister was presented the newborn Princess Estelle, Duchess of Östergötland.

In 1949, Alice Tornérhielm married Count Hans Gabriel Trolle-Wachtmeister, a member of the Trolle-Wachtmeister family, with whom she has since lived at Trolle-Ljungby Castle in Scania.


Marsvinsholm Castle

Through succession and sales the castle has belonged to the families Thott, von Königsmarck, de la Gardie, Sjöblad, Ruuth, Piper, Tornerhielm and Wachtmeister.

Przytyk pogrom

In June 1936 in Mińsk Mazowiecki, after Jan Bujak, a Wachtmeister of the local 7th Uhlan Regiment was shot by a Jewish resident Judka Lejb Chaskielewicz, riots erupted in which several Jewish stores were smashed.


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