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Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

1867 - 1951

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Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (Finland Swedish: [kɑːrl ˈɡʉstɑv ˈeːmil ˈmɑnːærhejm] , 4 June 1867 – 27 January 1951) was a Finnish military commander and statesman. 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 World War II (1939–1945), and as the sixth president of Finland (1944–1946). He became Finland's only field marshal in 1933 and was appointed honorary Marshal of Finland in 1942. Born into a Swedish-speaking aristocratic family in the Grand Duchy of Finland, Mannerheim made a career in the Imperial Russian Army, serving in the Russo-Japanese War and the Eastern Front of World War I and rising by 1917 to the rank of lieutenant general. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim is the 308th most popular politician (up from 446th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Finland (up from 4th in 2019) and the most popular Finnish Politician.

Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim was a Finnish military officer and statesman. He served as the military leader of the Whites in the Finnish Civil War and Commander-in-Chief of Finland's defense forces during World War II.

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Among politicians, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim ranks 308 out of 19,576. Before him are Güyük Khan, Constantine XI Palaiologos, Ali Khamenei, Anwar Sadat, Philip I of Castile, and Hu Jintao. After him are Alexander III of Russia, Park Chung-hee, Beatrix of the Netherlands, François Mitterrand, Konstantin Chernenko, and Batu Khan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim ranks 4. Before him are Marie Curie, Mary of Teck, and Edgar de Wahl. After him are Józef Piłsudski, Margaret Brown, Frank Lloyd Wright, Emily Greene Balch, Luigi Pirandello, Louise, Princess Royal, Pierre Bonnard, and Arturo Toscanini. Among people deceased in 1951, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim ranks 2. Before him is Ludwig Wittgenstein. After him are André Gide, Philippe Pétain, Arnold Schoenberg, Ferdinand Porsche, Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, Arnold Sommerfeld, Abdullah I of Jordan, Otto Fritz Meyerhof, René Guénon, and Hermann Broch.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim ranks 2 out of 751. Before him are Alvar Aalto (1898). After him are Simo Häyhä (1905), Jean Sibelius (1865), Tove Jansson (1914), Frans Eemil Sillanpää (1888), Paavo Nurmi (1897), Tarja Halonen (1943), Elias Lönnrot (1802), Urho Kekkonen (1900), Artturi Ilmari Virtanen (1895), and Sauli Niinistö (1948).

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Among POLITICIANS In Finland

Among politicians born in Finland, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim ranks 1. After him are Tarja Halonen (1943), Urho Kekkonen (1900), Sauli Niinistö (1948), Juho Kusti Paasikivi (1870), Risto Ryti (1889), Pehr Evind Svinhufvud (1861), Mauno Koivisto (1923), Kyösti Kallio (1873), Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg (1865), Otto Wille Kuusinen (1881), and Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia (1917).

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