Ernst Linder

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General Ernst Linder (right, commander of the Swedish Volunteer Corps) and his chief of staff Carl August Ehrensvärd in Tornio .
Ernst Linder at the Olympic Games in Paris in 1924

Ernst Linder (born April 25, 1868 Pohja , Finland , † September 14, 1943 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish general and Olympic champion in dressage riding.

biography

Ernst Linder's father was the politician and journalist Christoffer Alexander Ernst Linder , who died just a few weeks after his birth. Linder graduated from school in 1887 and then studied from 1888 to 1889 at the Swedish Military School in Karlberg and from 1900 to 1902 at the Swedish Military Academy. From 1887 to 1918 he served as an officer in the Swedish army and from 1918 to 1920 in the Finnish army , where he befriended Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, among others . During the Finnish Civil War he was in command of the Satakunta unit with which he won the Battle of Tammerfors alongside Mannerheim on April 6, 1918. He was then appointed major general and then served in the cavalry, but retired from active military service in the Finnish army in 1919.

Lindner won the gold medal in dressage riding at the Olympic Games in 1924 at the age of 56 on Piccolomini.

In 1927 became a member of the Royal Swedish Military Academy. He was also head of the Swedish Jockey Club for some time and was on the board of the Swedish AB Aerotransport group. In 1938 he was promoted to lieutenant general and in 1940 appointed general of the cavalry . In the Finnish-Soviet winter war , the then 71-year-old Linder led the units as commander of the Swedish Volunteer Corps on January 6, 1940 .

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SURNAME Linder, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dressage rider and general
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Pohja
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1943
Place of death Stockholm