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Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

1867 - 1951

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Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (Finland Swedish: [(kɑːrl) ˈɡʉstɑːf (ˈeːmil) ˈmɑnːærˌheim] , 4 June 1867 – 27 January 1951) was a Finnish military commander, aristocrat, 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 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 74 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 69 in 2019). Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim is the 446th most popular politician (down from 419th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Finland (up from 5th 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

Among politicians, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim ranks 446 out of 19,576. Before him are Artaxerxes I of Persia, Constantine II of Greece, Puyi, Emperor Taizong of Tang, Leopold I of Belgium, and Peisistratos. After him are Menkaure, Louis X of France, Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, Otho, Radovan Karadžić, and Louis Bonaparte.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim ranks 3. Before him are Marie Curie, and Józef Piłsudski. After him are Luigi Pirandello, Frank Lloyd Wright, Emily Greene Balch, Edgar de Wahl, Arturo Toscanini, Emil Nolde, Mary of Teck, Käthe Kollwitz, and John Galsworthy. Among people deceased in 1951, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim ranks 5. Before him are Ludwig Wittgenstein, André Gide, Philippe Pétain, and Ferdinand Porsche. After him are Arnold Schoenberg, Abdullah I of Jordan, Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, René Guénon, Arnold Sommerfeld, Otto Fritz Meyerhof, and Hermann Broch.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim ranks 4 out of 751. Before him are Alvar Aalto (1898), Jean Sibelius (1865), and Simo Häyhä (1905). After him are Tove Jansson (1914), Sauli Niinistö (1948), Paavo Nurmi (1897), Frans Eemil Sillanpää (1888), Mika Waltari (1908), Aki Kaurismäki (1957), Tarja Halonen (1943), and Urho Kekkonen (1900).

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Among POLITICIANS In Finland

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

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