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Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim [a] (4 June 1867 – 27 January 1951) was a Finnish military commander, aristocrat, and statesman. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] He served as the military leader of the Whites in the Finnish Civil War (1918), as Regent of Finland (1918–1919), as commander-in-chief of the Finnish Defence Forces during the period of ...
Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, Finnish military leader and conservative statesman who successfully defended Finland against greatly superior Soviet forces during World War II and served as the country’s president (1944–46). As defense council chairman, he built the ‘Mannerheim Line’ across the Karelian Isthmus.
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Finland’s most famous military leader, helped his countrymen earn “their own independent lives within the family of free peoples.” Before that, he served in the Russian military for many years; article includes slideshow.
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Kashgar 1906. National Board of Antiquities, Ethnographic Collection On returning from the Japanese War, Mannerheim attended the last session of the Finnish Estates as a representative of the baronial branch of his family.
Gustaf Mannerheim, usually referred to in Finland simply as 'Mannerheim', was a general in the Russian Imperial Army, an explorer and then - during and after Finland's struggle for independence - Commander-in-Chief in three wars and twice Head of State.
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim became president in 1944, at a most unusual, utterly astonishing phase of Finland’s political history. June 4, 2017 marks the 150th anniversary of his birth.
A Finnish aristocrat, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim served as cavalry commander in the Imperial Russian army during the First World War. After the Russian Revolution, he commanded Finnish White forces in the Finnish Civil War of 1918. He served as the Head of State of independent Finland in 1918-1919. Table of contents.
Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (June 4, 1867 – January 28, 1951) was the Commander-in-Chief of Finland 's Defense Forces, Marshal of Finland, an astute politician, humanitarian and a successful military commander. He was the sixth President of Finland (1944–1946).
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim was born on 4th June 1867 at the manor house of Louhisaari at Askainen, near Turku, the son of Count Carl Robert Mannerheim and Héléne von Julin.
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim was born in Askeinen in 1867, at the family seat of Louhisaari Manor. Although his father, Carl Robert Mannerheim, had embraced business and moved towards a more bourgeoisie lifestyle, a military career felt like the natural choice for the blue-blooded Mannerheim.
