Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (June 4, 1867 – January 28, 1951) was the reputed Commander-in-Chief of Finland's Defence Forces, Marshal of Finland, an astute politician, a successful military commander and was later President of Finland (1944–1946).

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Mannerheim was born in Louhisaari Castle in Askainen to a Finland-Swedish family of Dutch ancestry that had been ennobled in 1768. He was related to Adolf Erik Nordenski?ld and was the third child in a noble family in which the younger sons inherited the title of Baron (in Finnish Vapaaherra, in Swedish Friherre). Mannerheim was christened Carl Gustaf Emil, but was called by his middle name Gustaf (in Finnish Kustaa) and throughout his whole life he signed his private letters Gustaf or G. Besides his mother tongue, Swedish, he also spoke Finnish, Russian, French, German, English and Polish. Ironically, Finnish was probably his weakest language.

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On December 5, 2004, Mannerheim won the Suuret Suomalaiset program and was voted as the greatest Finnish person of all time.

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