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  Carl Gustaf Mannerheim
Mannerheim was born on June 4, 1867, in Louhisaari Castle in Askainen[?], to a Finland-Swedish family enobled[?] in 1768.
Mannerheim volunteered for the Russo-Japanese War in 1904 and was stationed at the 52th Njzhin hussar regiment in Manchuria with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
Mannerheim kept relations to the German government as formal as possible and refused Nazi demands for a written treaty of alliance or that Finnish troops should attack besieged Leningrad.
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 Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
Mannerheim was born in the Grand Duchy of Finland to a notable Finnish noble family that had migrated during the 17th century to Sweden-Finland from the Netherlands.
Mannerheim's grandfather, Count Carl Gustaf Mannerheim (1797-1854), was a renowned entomologist, and served as President of the Viipuri Court of Appeal.
Mannerheim's close friend, General Rudolf Walden, was sent as a representative of the headquarters in the Cabinet from 3 December 1939 till 27 March 1940 after which he became the defence minister for the next cabinet.
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 C.G. Mannerheim
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim was born of a wealthy and distinguished Finland-Swedish family at Louhisaari Manor in Askainen, north of Turku.
Mannerheim's early life was shadowed by the death of her mother and problems in the family's financial situation.
Mannerheim's reputation among the beaten left was shadowed by the 'White terror' during the war and mass death in prison camps, although he had opposed the mass imprisonment of Reds.
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 Mannerheim
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, as he was formerly known, was born on the 4th of June, in the summer of 1867 at his family’s manor, just north of Turku.
Mannerheim's early life was shadowed by the death of his mother early in his life, as well as problems in the family's financial situation due to his father’s debts that came about from extensive gambling.
Mannerheim pushed for such things being the Commander of the Finnish armed forces, he was elected because he was considered the only person that could steer the country to firm and long lasting peace with its neighbour.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
Mannerheim and Ryti both agreed to this proposal, and Ryti resigned as President on 29 July, giving as his reasons the state of his health and the necessity of combining civil and military authority in one person at that key moment.
Mannerheim was troubled by recurring health problems during 1945, and was absent on medical leave from his duties as President from November of that year until February 1946.
Mannerheim was also not satisfied with the spirits available in Finland at the time, and therefore always requested that gin and dry French vermouth were to be blended into available aquavit.
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 C.G.E.Mannerheim, the Marshal of Finland — Virtual Finland
Gustaf Mannerheim was born at Louhisaari Manor in Askainen 4 June 1867 as the third child of Count Carl Robert Mannerheim and his wife, Helena von Julin.
Mannerheim took part in the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-05 as a staff officer in the Nezhinski Dargoon Regiment and was promoted to colonel in the battlefield.
Mannerheim returned to a country which had recently declared its independence, but was torn by revolutionary disturbances and with 40 000 Russian troops still in the country.
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 Celsius Centre for Scandinavian Studies
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim was born on 4 June 1867.
Gustaf was born into an aristocratic, well-off (the financial status was to significantly deplete during Mannerheim's childhood), Swedish-speaking respectable family.
Gustaf’s childhood and indeed the childhoods of his six siblings was tough, but not the kind of stuff that legends are made of.
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 Finlandsite - alles over Finland!: Carl Gustaf Mannerheim
Mannerheim is geboren in kasteel Louhisaari te Askainen in een Fins-Zweedse familie met Nederlandse wortels die in 1768 in de adelstand was verheven.
Mannerheim was presidentskandidaat en nam het op tegen Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg.
Carl Gustaf Mannerheim trouwde om economische redenen in 1892 met de Russische generaalsdochter Anastasia Nicolajevna Arapova (gest.
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 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Mannerheim had commanded the White Army in the Finnish Civil War in 1918, and his promotion to field marshal had already been suggested in 1928, the 10th anniversary of the end of the War.
Mannerheim officially received the marshal's title three days after the 15th anniversary of the end of the Civil War, choosing not to receive the title on the anniversary on 16 May, because he did not want to aggravate the wounds of the War.
On this occasion Mannerheim was also given a new, official marshal's baton, but he still preferred to use the old, unofficial one, because it was lighter.
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 Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim information - Search.com
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.
Mannerheim's mother, Hedvig Charlotta (Hélène) von Julin (1842-1881), was a member of the wealthy von Julin family.
Mannerheim bought Kirkniemi Manor in Lohja and intended to spend his retirement there, but in 1947 he had an ulcer operated on and it was recommended that he should travel to the Valmont sanatorium in Montreux, Switzerland to recuperate and write his memoirs.
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 Carl Gustav Emil Von Mannerheim, Baron Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Carl Gustav von Mannerheim was born on June 4, 1867, near Turku of a prominent family.
Mannerheim's first task was to disarm the more than 40,000 Russian soldiers still on Finnish soil to prevent them from joining the rebel forces, who already outnumbered his own.
Mannerheim meanwhile labored to erect a republic of Finland free of German and Soviet ties.
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 HS Home 30.1.2001 - Finns pay tribute to Mannerheim on 50th anniversary of Marski's death
Translator's Note: Sunday saw the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (1867-1951), Marshal of Finland and the country's sixth President of the Republic (from 1944-46), indisputably one of the most important figures in the nation's history.
Mannerheim was given a state funeral and was buried in the Hietaniemi Cemetery in Helsinki, his grave surrounded by those of many of the soldiers who served under him.
A number of already aged war veterans could be spotted standing at attention among the wreathlayers; these are the people who faithfully show up to pay their respects to their commander from the 1940s, under whose leadership they somehow managed to unite and to defy all military odds.
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 Seashore Carl Emil - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Mannerheim, Carl Gustaf Emil, Baron (1867-1951), Finnish army officer and statesman.
Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim was born in Vilnäs.
Originally named Carl Emil Wilhelm Anderson, he was born near Uppsala.
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 Wikipedia search result
Finland had long been part of the Swedish kingdom when it was conquered by Russia in 1809 and turned into an autonomous buffer state to protect the Russian capital.
To start with, France and Britain promised to send 20,000 men to arrive by the end of February, although under the implicit condition that on their way to Finland they were given opportunity to occupy North-Scandinavia.
As Finland's Cabinet hesitated in face of the harsh Soviet conditions, Sweden's King Gustaf V made a public statement, in which he confirmed having declined Finnish pleas for support from Swedish troops.
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 www.1939-45.org / Biographies : Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Mannerheim se passionne aussi pour les courses automobiles, l'équitation, les armes anciennes et surtout la chasse.
Carl Gustaf Emil chassera aussi en Europe centrale et Orientale, notamment sur les terres prussiennes de Göring.
Mannerheim, pessimiste sur la situation militaire russe, estime que l'occasion doit être saisie de créer un Etat finlandais indépendant.
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 Mannerheim's Way
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim was born on the family estate at Louhisaari in Askainen on the 4th of June, 1867.
Mannerheim’s aristocratic family background, financial support from his maternal relatives and his successful military training opened him the way to the highly respected Regiment of the Guard.
During the Russo-Japanese War Mannerheim was sent to Mantchuria as a junior officer of the 52nd Njezhin Dragoon Regiment, to gain war experience (1904-1905).
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 Rahapaja
In accordance with a decree by the Finnish Ministry of Finance, the Mint of Finland is issuing a collector silver coin ‘Mannerheim and St. Petersburg’, with the face value of 10 euros.
This collector coin is to honour Marshal Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, who had a significant role in Finnish war history.
The first official Mannerheim collector coin, the coin features a simplified portrait of the Finnish Marshal Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim’s face on the obverse.
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 Carl XVI Gustaf - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Carl XVI Gustaf - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Carl XVI Gustaf, born in 1946, king of Sweden since 1973.
Carl Gustaf Folke Hubertus was born at Haga Palace in Stockholm, the oldest son of Prince...
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 Axis History Forum :: View topic - Did Carl-Gustav Mannerheim earn the Iron Crosses in WWI?
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, then ratsuväenkenraali (general of cavalry) and Commander-in-Chief of the White Finnish Army, was awarded both EK I and EK II on 19 May 1918.
Thus, Mannerheim was referred to simply as Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (but he used Gustaf as his first name).
Mannerheim never had any 'von' as a part of his name, even though he still is often given it in non-Finnish sources.
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 CoinPeople.com > 2003 €10
In addition, while Mannerheim did serve in the Imperial Russian army, the connection to the Fortress of St Peter and St Paul is weak at best.
Consequently it was viewed as very bizarre that Mannerheim's first commemoration on a coin was tied to a Russian theme.
Sep 29 2005, 01:17 PM Gustav Mannerheim was commemorated on a USA stamp back in the 1960's, I have some of them somewhere, also some commems for the 50th anniversary of Finlands independence.
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 On Mannerheim’s Footsteps:
In 1906-1908 a young Finnish colonel Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim was sent for an expedition to Turkestan, in the czar's military intelligence service.
The czar's dream was crushed by communist revolution and not even Stalin could finish the old Russian dream of sole Eurasian hegemony, although the Soviets tried it both on Chinese borderlands (occupation of Tuva and the wars on Ussur) and in Afghanistan.
Mannerheim rode on horseback all the way from Samarkand through the Fergana Valley and Kyrgyzstan and Tianshan Mountains to East Turkestan and China, up to Peking.
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 Prologi
The Hunting Cabin of Mannerheim, Marshal of Finland, or the Marshal's Cabin is a hunting cabin built by Finnish soldiers for Marshal C.G. Mannerheim during the Continuation War and given to him as a present on his 75th birthday in 1942.
The Marshal of Finland, Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim is one of the most significant great men in Finnish history.
Both as Commander-in-Chief during the Finnish wars and as President of Finland, his cool judgement and exceptional authority in Finland as well as abroad contributed towards Finland's pulling through the difficult first decades of independence.
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 Amazon.com: Mannerheim: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Marshal Mannerheim and the Finns by Oliver Warner (Unknown Binding - 1967)
Gustaf Mannerheim 1867-1951 by Stig Axel Fridolf Jägerskiöld (Unknown Binding - 1983)
C.G.E. Mannerheim, the Marshal of Finland by Matti Lappalainen (Unknown Binding - 1989)
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 Mannerheim to His Men -- Monday, Mar. 25, 1940 -- Page 1 -- TIME
Mannerheim to His Men -- Monday, Mar. 25, 1940 -- Page 1 -- TIME
Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim has been a soldier for 58 of his 72 years.
He served his Tsar as a bodyguard, as a colonel in the Russo-Japanese War, and as the leader of his Uhlans.
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 Record Detail   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
C.G.E. Mannerheim as the cornet in the Chevalier Guard.
Gustaf Mannerheim was a general in the Russian Imperial Army, an explorer and then - during and after Finland's struggle for independence - Commander-in-Chief in three wars and twice Head of State.
During his own lifetime he became, alongside Sibelius, the best-known Finnish personage at home and abroad.
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