Anders Torstenson (politician)

Anders Torstenson (20 January 1641 in Stralsund – 8 November 1686 in Stockholm) was a Swedish Privy Councilor, Governor-General and Count.

His father, Lennart Torstensson, was a military officer with the rank of Fältmarskalk (Field Marshal), who was later ennobled as a Count.

His namesake son, Anders Torstensen [sv], a colonel, was killed at the Battle of Poltava.

His next-to-last child, Carl Ulrik Torstenson [sv] also became a colonel, with the Närke-Värmland Regiment,[2] and died suddenly, while on a trip to visit the spa in Aachen.

He had served for only a year when he resigned, to become the first Governor-General of Estland, part of the Swedish province of Livonia.