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Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (Swedish pronunciation: [kɑːɭ ˈɡɵ̂sːtav ˈěːmɪl ˈmânːɛrˌhɛjm], Finland Swedish: [kɑːrl ˈɡʉstɑv ˈeːmil ˈmɑnːærˌhejm] ⓘ; 4 June 1867 – 27 January 1951) was a Finnish military commander, aristocrat, and statesman.
May 31, 2024 · 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.
Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (sebutan Sweden: [ˈkɑːɭ ˈɡɵˈstav ˈeːmɪl ˈmanːɛrˈheɪm]; in Bahasa Rusia: Густав Карлович Ма́ннергейм, tr. Gustav Karlovich (lit."anak Karl") Mannerheim; 4 Jun 1867 – 27 Januari 1951) adalah seorang pemimpin tentera dan negarawan berbangsa Finland.
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.
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.
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.
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.
