Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
Finnish military leader and statesman (1867–1951)
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Lived 1867–1951, aged 84
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He fought for the Russian Empire, then against the Bolsheviks to secure Finland's independence, led the country through two wars with the Soviet Union, and died revered as the greatest Finn of all time — a monarchist who ratified a republic, a general who became president, a man who parceled out survival against impossible odds.
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Born into Swedish-speaking aristocracy in the Grand Duchy of Finland in 1867, Mannerheim rose to lieutenant general in the Imperial Russian Army, serving through the Russo-Japanese War and World War I. After Finland declared independence in December 1917, he commanded the Whites to victory in the 1918 civil war and served as regent, securing international recognition of the new republic despite his own monarchist leanings. He lost the first presidential election in 1919 and withdrew from politics, spending years leading the Red Cross and child welfare work until 1931, when he was appointed to…
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