Honorific Prefix: | His Excellency |
Office: | Marshal of the Realm |
Term Start: | 1930 |
Term End: | 1934 |
Office1: | Governor of Östergötland County |
Term Start1: | 1912 |
Term End1: | 1930 |
Office2: | Envoy to the German Empire |
Successor2: | Arvid Taube |
Term Start2: | 1909 |
Term End2: | 1912 |
Term Start3: | 1905 |
Term End3: | 1909 |
Birth Name: | Eric Birger Trolle |
Birth Date: | 1863 |
Death Place: | Stockholm |
Spouse: | Alice Trolle |
Children: | 2 |
Nationality: | Swedish |
Eric Trolle (1863–1934) was a Swedish diplomat who held several posts, including minister of foreign affairs and governor of Östergötland County.
Trolle was born in 1863.[1] He worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in various capacities. Trolle was appointed minister of foreign affairs in 1905 which he held until 1909. Then he served as the Swedish envoy to German Empire between 1909 and 1912. In 1912 he was named as the governor of Östergötland County and remained in the office until his resignation in 1930.[2] Next he was made the Marshal of the Realm in 1930.
He married Alice Trolle (1872–1953) in 1893, and they had two children. Eric Trolle died of pneumonia at the Mössebergs sanatorium in Stockholm in 1934 while serving as Reich Marshal.[3]