Everything about Eric Von Rosen totally explained
Count Carl Gustaf Bloomfield
Eric von Rosen (born
June 2 1879 in
Stockholm, died
April 25 1948 Skeppsholmen,
Stockholm) was a
Swedish Honorary doctor,
patron,
explorer and
ethnographer.
von Rosen was married to baroness
Mary Fock (1886-1967) with whom he'd six children: Bjorn (b. 1905), Mary (b. 1906),
Carl Gustaf von Rosen (b. 1909), Birgitta (b. 1913), Egil (b. 1919), and Anna (b. 1926). Eric von Rosen's father was count Carl Gustaf von Rosen and his mother was Ella Carlton Moore of
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. He was brother to count
Clarence von Rosen.
Relationship to Hermann Göring
von Rosen was also to become brother-in-law to
Hermann Göring, when his wife's sister, Carin von Kantzow, married Göring. Everything had started when Göring was flying Eric von Rosen in bad weather from Stockholm to
Rockelstad castle, at the lake
Båven in
Sörmland, Sweden. Due to bad weather conditions, Göring had to stay at the castle. There he acquainted the sister of von Rosen's wife,
Carin von Kantzow. She was at that time married to a Swedish officer, but would be his big love and future wife.
The von Rosen swastika
Eric von Rosen had been using a
swastika as a personal owner's mark. He originally saw the symbol on
rune stones in
Gotland, while being at school. Knowing that the symbol signified good luck for the Vikings, he utilized the symbol and had it carved into all his luggage when going on an expedition to South America in 1901. Being a friend of Finland, he gave the newly-independent state an aircraft, which signified the beginning of the
Finnish Air Force. The aircraft, a license manufactured
Morane-Saulnier MS Parasol/
Thulin D, was marked with his badge, a blue swastika on a white background. The Finnish Air Force adopted this as their national insignia.
Göring had noted the swastika during his stay in Sweden and at von Rosens' castle (forged into a metal piece at the fire place). However, the swastika of the German Nazi party had been adopted already in 1920, two years before Göring met
Adolf Hitler.
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