Johan Christopher Toll

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Skåne, Sweden
Died21 May 1817(1817-05-21) (aged 74)
Bäckaskog Castle, Skåne, Sweden
Allegiance Sweden
Service/branchSwedish Army
Years of service1758–1817
RankField Marshal
Battles/warsPomeranian War

Russo-Swedish War (1788–1790)

Royal Order of the Seraphim
Order of the Sword
Lord of the Realm
Other workGovernor-general of Scania

Count Johan Christopher Toll (1 February 1743 – 21 May 1817),

Scania (now part of Hässleholm Municipality, Skåne County). Toll came of from an old family of Dutch origin, which can be traced back to the 13th century. They migrated to the Baltic provinces in the 16th century.[1]

Toll's father was one of Charles XII's soldiers, his mother being a descendant of the aristocratic Gyllenstjerna family. In his youth Johan Christopher served during the Seven Years' War, and then, exchanging the military for civil service, became head ranger of Kristianstad County.[1]

Royal conspirator

During the

Gustav III's coup d'état in Stockholm completed the revolution.[1]

Politician

Toll was liberally rewarded and more and more frequently employed as his genius as an administrator and his blameless integrity came to light. His reforms in the commissariat department were epoch-making, and the superior mobility of the Swedish forces under Gustav III was due entirely to his initiative. But it was upon Toll's boundless audacity that Gustav chiefly relied. Thus as Gustav, under the pressure of circumstances, inclined more and more towards absolutism, it was upon Toll that he principally leant. In 1783, Toll was placed at the head of the secret "Commission of National Defence " which ruled Sweden during the king's absence abroad without the privity of the Council. It was he who persuaded the king to summon the

Act of Union and Security by threatening to reveal the names of all the persons suspected of complicity in the murder of the late king. Subsequently he displayed great diplomatic adroitness in his negotiations with the powers concerning Sweden's participation in the war against Napoleon.[1]

Military commander

In the

Bernadotte, who, in 1814, created him a count. He died unmarried.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Bain 1911.
  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bain, Robert Nisbet (1911). "Toll, Johan Kristoffer, Count". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 26 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 1052.

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