Count

Count

A count or countess is an aristocratic nobleman in European countries. The word count came into English from the French comte, itself from Latin comes—in its accusative comitem—meaning "companion", and later "companion of the emperor, delegate of the emperor". The adjective form of the word is...

 Torgil Gabriel Alexander von Seth, born October 3, 1895 in Jönköping

Jönköping

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, dead January 21, 1989 in Vaggeryd

Vaggeryd

Vaggeryd is a locality situated in Vaggeryd Municipality, Jönköping County, Sweden with 4,688 inhabitants in 2005. Together with Skillingaryd it is the seat of the municipality.Vaggeryd is situated about 10 km north of its co-municipal seat Skillingaryd...

 was a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 right-wing politician and the first chairman of what later became the Moderate Youth League

Moderate Youth League

The Moderate Youth League , officially known in English as the Swedish Young Conservatives, is the youth wing of the Swedish Moderate Party. It had 12 051 members in 2010...

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The early 1930s saw conflict within the Swedish right wing over how to address nazism

Nazism

Nazism, the common short form name of National Socialism was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany...

. In 1934, Arvid Lindman

Arvid Lindman

Salomon Arvid Achates Lindman was a Swedish Rear Admiral, Industrialist and conservative politician...

, the leader of the Moderate Party, declared that the National Youth League of Sweden (Sveriges nationella ungdomsförbund, SNU) no longer was considered the official youth organisation of the Swedish right due to its pro-Nazi stance. Torgil von Seth, one of the leaders of the democratic wing of SNU, quickly organised a committee to set up a new youth organisation. It was named the Young Swedes (Ungsvenskarna) and von Seth became its first chairman. He served until 1941, a period which among other things saw the Young Swedes involving itself in the nation-wide efforts to help Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

 after having been invaded by the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

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He was honorary guest at the congress of the Moderate Youth League when Beatrice Ask

Beatrice Ask

Eva Carin Beatrice Ask is a Swedish Moderate Party politician currently serving as Minister for Justice in the Swedish government.- Biography :...

was elected in 1984.