Erik Heinrichs

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Axel Erik Heinrichs (21 July 1890 - 16 November 1965) was a Finnish military general.Heinrichs was one of the Finnish Jaeger troops trained in the volunteer Royal Prussian 27th J ger Battalion between 1915 and 1918. During the Finnish Civil War he served as a battalion commander in the battles of Tampere and Viipuri. He commanded the Finnish III Army Corps in the Winter War and from February 19, 1940 the Army of the Karelian Isthmus. He was made Chief of the General Staff in June 1940 and promoted to General of Infantry in 1941.