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Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden
About Mary von Rosen
- Mary von Rosen (née Mary Fock, 5 February 1886 – 26 February 1967) was born in Sweden.
- She was the third of the five daughters of Baron Carl Fock and the elder sister of Carin Göring, the first wife of Hermann Göring.
- She was married to Count Eric von Rosen, with whom she had six children: Bjorn (b.
- 1905), Mary (b.
- 1906), Carl Gustaf von Rosen (b.
- 1909), Birgitta (b.
- 1913), Egil (b.
- 1919), and Anna (b.
- 1926).In 1932 her daughter Mary married Nils Silfverskiöld, an Olympic gymnast and orthopedic surgeon with strong anti-Nazi views.
- Her family had good relations with Nazi Germany in general and with Hermann Göring in particular.
- This resulted in a scandal at the wedding of Silfverskiöld and von Rosen, when all the attendants but the groom and bride made the Nazi salute to Göring.
- Silfverskiöld and von Rosen had a daughter Monica Getz, a diplomat, educator and activist and the wife of American jazz saxophonist Stan Getz.Mary von Rosen was one of the founders of the Societas Sanctae Birgittae (SSB), a Lutheran High Church society in Church of Sweden, and she was the first Mother Superior of SSB from 1920 to 1964.
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