# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/aleksander-einseln
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:42:10.783Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/aleksander-einseln"
name: "Aleksander Einseln"
slug: "aleksander-einseln"
description: "Aleksander Einseln was an Estonian general, the Commander of Estonian Defence Forces from 1993 to 1995, and previously a United States Army colonel. In 1944, Einseln, aged 12, became a war refugee as he fled from Estonia to escape from the invading Soviet army. In 1949, he emigrated to the United States. From 1950 to 1985, he served in the US Army, taking part in the Korean War, and as a Special Forces A-team commander in the Vietnam War. In 1993, at the request of then president Lennart Meri, Einseln returned to Estonia to serve as the first Commander of its armed forces after the end of Soviet occupation and the restoration of independent Estonia in August 1991."
tagline: "Estonian military personnel (1931–2017)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1931-10-25"
deathDate: "2017-03-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.42
  momentum:             0.2380952380952381
  historical:           8.341073333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://et.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aleksander_Einseln"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%86"
    title: "اليكساندر اينسيلن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksander_Einseln"
    title: "Aleksander Einseln"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksander_Einseln"
    title: "Aleksander Einseln"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksander_Einseln"
    title: "Aleksander Einseln"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksander_Einseln"
    title: "Aleksander Einseln"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksander_Einseln"
    title: "Aleksander Einseln"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%9B%D7%A1%D7%A0%D7%93%D7%A8_%D7%90%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%A1%D7%9C%D7%9F"
    title: "אלכסנדר איינסלן"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksander_Einseln"
    title: "Aleksander Einseln"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80_%D0%90%D0%B9%D0%BD%D0%B7%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD"
    title: "Александр Айнзельн"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4714933"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump