Mannerheim (family)
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Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim was the military leader of the Whites in the Finnish Civil War, Commander-in-Chief of Finland's Defence Forces during World War II, Marshal of Finland, and a Finnish statesman. He was Regent of Finland and the sixth President of Finland...

, the Finnish Marshal and President


Mannerheim is the surname of well-known noble
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 family registered in Finland
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, Sweden
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 and Germany
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.

Baronial lineage

(number 18 in the register of the Finnish House of Nobility (Ritarihuone; Riddarhuset))

The family descends from a German
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 businessman and mill owner, Henrik Marhein (1618–1667), who emigrated to Gävle
Gävle
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, Sweden
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. 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
Baron
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 at the same time with his brother in 1768. Johan Augustin was introduced in 1776 under number 277. The family came to Finland
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 in the latter part of 18th century and was immatriculated in Finland in 1818.

Comital lineage

(number 8 in the register of the Finnish House of Knights)

Baron Carl Erik Mannerheim (1759–1837) was the son of Baron Johan Augustin Mannerheim. Born in Säter
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, Carl Erik was part of the Anjala League, an opposition movement during the reign of Gustav III of Sweden
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. However, he received an amnesty and emigrated to Finland, where he purchased Louhisaari Manor in 1795. In 1805, he was elected Chairman of the Finnish Economic Society. At the beginning of Russian rule in Finland, he was chairman of the delegation accounting for matters in Finland to Tsar Alexander I
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.

He served as Vice-President of the Senate of Finland
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's Economic Department, and Governor of Turku
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 and Björneborg
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 provinces. He was also first Major
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 of the Åbo province infantry regiment. He was given the hereditary title of Count
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 (in Finnish
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 Kreivi, in Swedish
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 Greve) in 1824 and introduced in 1825. The title is inherited by the eldest son.

Reintroduced in the Swedish nobility
Swedish nobility
The Swedish nobility were historically a legally and/or socially privileged class in Sweden, part of the so-called frälse . Today, the nobility is still very much a part of Swedish society but they do not maintain many of their former privileges...

 in 1947 and 1953.

Members

  • Anna Maria Mannerheim, wife of Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld
    Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld
    Freiherr Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld , also known as A. E. Nordenskioeld was a Finnish baron, geologist, mineralogist and arctic explorer of Finnish-Swedish origin. He was a member of the prominent Finland-Swedish Nordenskiöld family of scientists...

  • Augustin Marhein
  • Carl Gustaf von Mannerheim
  • Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
    Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
    Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim was the military leader of the Whites in the Finnish Civil War, Commander-in-Chief of Finland's Defence Forces during World War II, Marshal of Finland, and a Finnish statesman. He was Regent of Finland and the sixth President of Finland...

  • Henrik Marhein
  • Johan Augustin Mannerheim
  • Sophie Mannerheim
    Sophie Mannerheim
    Baroness Sophie Mannerheim A famous nurse known as pioneer of modern nursing in Finland. She was daughter of a count and sister of a former Finnish President, marshal Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim. Her career started as a bank employee for 6 years until she got married in 1896...


See also

  • The National Biography of Finland
    Kansallisbiografia
    Suomen Kansallisbiografia is a collection of 6,000 biographies of individuals and families who have made important contributions to the development of Finnish society.- From the time of the Swedish era :Adlercreutz, ,Aeimelaeus,...

  • Swedish-speaking Finns
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