Orders, decorations, and medals of Finland

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 68. Chapters: Military awards and decorations of Finland, Order of the Lion of Finland, Order of the White Rose of Finland, Recipients of the Order of the Cross of Liberty, Recipients of the Order of the Lion of Finland, Alfred Jodl, Erich Raeder, Aksel Airo, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Mauno Koivisto, Walter Nowotny, Hans-Georg von Seidel, Mikkeli, Mark Evans Austad, Ferdinand Schörner, Hilary Koprowski, Fritz von Scholz, Erich Rudorffer, Ilmari Juutilainen, Herbert Otto Gille, Jorma Sarvanto, Franz Böhme, Eduard Dietl, Hans Jeschonnek, Reiner Stahel, Walter Schuck, Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, Rudolf von Ribbentrop, Vegard Sletten, David Manker Abshire, Günther Korten, Axel Otto Normann, Mannerheim Cross, Karl von Le Suire, C. J. Hambro, Rudolf Walden, Werner Töniges, Hans Kreysing, Gerhard Engel, Hjalmar Siilasvuo, Alexander Holle, Wilhelm Berlin, Ole Danbolt Mjøs, Karl Allmendinger, Hubert Schmundt, Erich Buschenhagen, Hermod Skånland, Karl-Maria Demelhuber, Philipp Kleffel, Georg Ritter von Hengl, Eri Klas, Paul Klatt, August Schmidt, Olaf Helset, Theodor Burchardi, Karl Weisenberger, Herbert Rieckhoff, Alois Windisch, Eugen-Heinrich Bleyer, Ferdinand Jodl, August Krakau, Hans Degen, Terje Baalsrud, Heinrich Kittel, Sjur Brækhus, Karl Schnörrer, Eivinn Berg, Hermann Fischer, Eberhard Kinzel, Wayland Hand, Albert Wodrig, Otto Hoffmann von Waldau, Hans Bütow, Kurt Böhmer, Philip Jones, Felix Zymalkowski, Bernhard Paus, Lauritz Opstad, Janric Craig, 3rd Viscount Craigavon, Christian Bjelland IV, Fanni Luukkonen. Excerpt: Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (Swedish pronunciation: ) (4 June 1867 - 27 January 1951) was the Commander-in-Chief of Finland's Defence Forces, Marshal of Finland and a politician. He was Regent of Finland (1918-1919) and the sixth President of Finland (1944-1946). Mannerheim was born in the Grand Principality of Finland, a territory of Imperial Russia, into a family of Swedish-speaking nobles settled in Finland since the late 18th century. His paternal German ancestor Marhein had emigrated to Sweden during the 17th century. His maternal ancestry has its roots in Södermanland, Sweden. He made a career in the Russian army, rising to general. He also had a prominent place in the ceremonies for Tsar Nicholas II's coronation and later had several private meetings with the Russian Tsar. After the Bolshevik revolution, Finland declared its independence but was soon embroiled in a civil war along class lines. The workers overwhelmingly held a socialist ("Red") creed; whereas the bourgeois, farmers, and businessmen held a capitalist ("White") creed. Mannerheim was pointed to be the military chief of the Whites. Twenty years later, when Finland was at war with the Soviet Union from 1939-1944, Mannerheim was appointed commander of the country's armed forces. The Mannerheim family descends from a German businessman and mill owner from Hamburg, Hinrich Marhein (1618-1667), who emigrated to Gävle in Sweden and changed his name to Henrik. His son Augustin Marhein changed his surname to Mannerheim, and was raised to the nobility in 1693. His son, an artillery colonel and a mill supervisor, Johan Augustin Mannerheim, was raised to the status of Baron at the same time as his brother in 1768. The Mannerheim family came to Finland, then an integral part of Sweden, in the latter part of 18th century. (It was long believed that Hinrich Marhein had emigrated to Sweden from the Netherlands, but r...