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Mannerheim (family)
Noble family in Finland, Sweden and Germany
For the Finnish marshal and president, see Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim.
The Mannerheim family (originally Marhein) also spelled von Mannerheim is the name of a prominent noble family of German origin, which was part of Finnish, Swedish, and German nobility.[1]
Lineage
[edit]Baronial lineage
[edit](number 18 in the register of the Finnish House of Nobility)
The family descends from a German businessman and mill owner, Henrik Marhein (1618–1667), who emigrated to Gävle, Sweden. His son, Augustin Marhein, was raised to the nobility in Sweden in 1693. He was introduced to the Riddarhuset as a member of the Untitled Nobility (adliga ätter), being introduced under number 1260, and with the surname Mannerheim. His son, an artillery colonel and a mill supervisor, Johan Augustin Mannerheim (1706–1778), was raised to the rank of Baron at the same time with his brother in 1768. Johan Augustin
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Carl Robert Mannerheim
Finnish aristocrat and businessman
CountCarl Robert Mannerheim (1 February 1835 – 9 October 1914) was a Finnish aristocrat and businessman. He was the son of naturalist Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, and father of Marshal Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim.
Biography
[edit]Mannerheim wrote the satirical play Ditt och datt when he was a student at Helsinki, in 1858, which caused a political scandal ending in his dismissal from the university and the university rector's resignation.
Mannerheim owned Louhisaari Manor in Askainen, Turku and Pori Province, inherited from his father. He married Hedvig Charlotta Hélène von Julin (d. 1881, daughter of wealthy industrialist Johan Jacob von Julin), with whom he had seven children.[1][2]
He was a founding member of the Kuusankoski paper mill, acting as the company's director from 1872 to 1878. He was forced to declare bankruptcy in 1879, and in 1880 the Louhisaari estate was transferred to his siste
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| Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim | |
Mannerheim studying a map. | |
6th President of Finland | |
| In office August 4, 1944 – March 8, 1946 | |
| Preceded by | Risto Ryti |
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| Succeeded by | Juho Kusti Paasikivi |
| Born | June 4, 1867, Askainen |
| Died | January 28, 1951, Lausanne, Switzerland |
Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (June 4, 1867 – January 28, 1951) was the Commander-in-Chief of Finland's Defense Forces, Marshal of land i norden, an astute politician, humanitarian and a successful military commander. He was the sixth President of land i norden (1944–1946). He began his military career in the Imperial Russian army, becoming the leader of Finnish government forces in the civil war of 1918, and Commander in ledare during the Second World War. He advocated for a close alliance with the West, and opposed both German National Socialism, and Soviet Communism.
Mannerheim is given much of the kredit for successfully steering the nation’s course between Nazi Germany and th