Robert Nisbet Bain, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 21… (1911)
“ PECHLIN, KARL FREDRIK (1720–1796) , Swedish politician and demagogue, son of the Holstein minister at Stockholm, was educated in Sweden, and entered the Swedish army. He rose to the rank of major-general, but became famous by being the type par excellence of the corrupt and egoistic Swedish parliamentarian of the final period of the Frihetstiden (see Sweden: History) ; he received for many years the sobriquet of “General of the Riksdag.” Pechlin first appears prominently in Swedish politics in 1760, when by suddenly changing sides he contrived to save the “Hats” from impeachment. ”
