Ian Wachtmeister
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Count Ian Melcher Shering Wachtmeister (born 24 December 1932) is a Swedish industrialist and politician. He was a member of the Swedish parliament from 1991 to 1994. He is the son of Count Ted Wachtmeister and Adrienne, née De Geer.
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 election. Critics within the Swedish political establishment often described the party as right-wing and racist. Wachtmeister left the party in April 1994.
Prior to the election in 1998, Wachtmeister organized 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.
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