Mannerheim

[mah-nuhr-heym]

noun

1. Baron Carl Gustaf Emil von 1867–1951, Finnish soldier and statesman.

Mannerheim

/ ˈmænəˌheɪm /

noun

1. Baron Carl Gustaf Emil . 1867–1951, Finnish soldier and statesman; president of Finland (1944–46)

Example Sentences

In June, a university in St Petersburg put up a plaque commemorating Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, Finland's most famous military officer and former president, who had served in the Tsar's army but later led Finnish armed forces in World War Two.

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The plaque quickly became a target for protesters who have called Mannerheim - regarded in Finland as a symbol of the country's struggle against the Soviet Union - a murderer and ruthless Nazi collaborator.

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Stalin hated Vienna, as did another unhinged young man named Adolf Hitler, who in 1913 was painting and ranting in the city’s Mannerheim, the shabby “home for men,” about nine tram stops past Sigmund Freud’s apartment.

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Facebook Twitter Pinterest The trips to and from Finland’s Immola airstrip were the only two times that Hitler ever rode in Mannerheim’s Mercedes-Benz.

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Photographs and other documents from the period, including the diary of Hitler’s own chauffeur, substantiate that Hitler inspected this car at his military headquarters in Poland and later rode in the car – twice – in June of 1942, during a visit he paid to Mannerheim near the Immola airstrip in southern Finland.

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