Background
He is the son of Count Ted Wachtmeister and Adrienne, née De Geer. Ian Wachtmeister was born on family estate Nääs outside Nyköping in Södermanland County on 24 December 1932.
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He is the son of Count Ted Wachtmeister and Adrienne, née De Geer. Ian Wachtmeister was born on family estate Nääs outside Nyköping in Södermanland County on 24 December 1932.
Wachtmeister studied mining and metallurgy at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and graduated in 1957.
He then embarked on a successful industrial career culminating in Chief Executive Officer posts at Oxelösunds Järnverks Bachelor of Arts 1970-1978 and Gränges Aluminium Bachelor of Arts 1978-1983. Prior to the election in 1998, Wachtmeister organised the short lived and unsuccessful Det nya partiet (The New Party). Thereafter he focused on managing his business interests, in particular the company The Empire.
When asked in 2009 he expressed his intention to vote for the Liberal People"s Party in the Swedish general election, 2010.
Together with record company owner Bert Karlsson he founded the populist political party New Democracy, and as party leader achieved parliamentary representation in the 1991 general election from Örebro County. The party"s criticism of the Swedish immigration politics generated accusations of racism. Wachtmeister left the party in April 1994.
In 2010 he was associated with the political party Sweden Democrats as a "general advisor" to their leader Jimmie Åkesson.
He was a member of the Swedish Riksdag from 1991 to 1994.