Mannerheim (noble family)

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Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

Mannerheim is the name of a Finnish-Swedish noble family. Her most famous offspring was Carl Gustaf Mannerheim (1867–1951), Marshal and President of Finland .

The ancestor of the family, Hinrich Marhein (Swedish also Henrik ; 1618–1667) moved to Gävle in Sweden by 1645 at the latest and became chief accountant of the Palmstruch Bank in Sweden . While it was long suspected that this ancestor had Dutch origins, a Finnish-Dutch research team was able to prove in 2007 that Marhein came from a Hamburg merchant family whose house stood on the site of today's Helmut Schmidt house on Steinstrasse. As can be seen from the church records, Hinrich Marhein was baptized on December 28, 1618 in the neighboring Sankt-Jakobi-Kirche .

His son Augustin Marhein held several public offices in Sweden and was raised to the untitled nobility in 1693 . His last name was changed to Mannerheim . Augustine's four sons all served in the Swedish army; two of them, Gustaf Henrik and Johan Augustin Mannerheim, were raised to the rank of baron in 1738 .

Baron Carl Erik Mannerheim (1759–1837), a son of Johan Augustin, also made a career in the Swedish army. Although he joined the Anjalabund in 1788 , a conspiracy of Finnish and Swedish officers against King Gustav III , he was pardoned as part of a general amnesty . In 1795 he acquired the Louhisaari country estate in Askainen ( Swedish: Villnäs ) in southwestern Finland and was the first member of the family to settle in Finland. After Finland fell to the Russian Empire in 1809 , he entered the service of the tsar and served, among other things, as governor of the province of Turku and Pori. In 1824 he was given the hereditary title of count, which has since passed to the eldest son.

The first Mannerheim born in Finland was Carl Erik's eldest son, Carl Gustaf Mannerheim (1797-1854), who also held high offices in the administration of the Russian Grand Duchy of Finland , including the governor posts of Vasa and Viborg . He also emerged as an entomologist .

Carl Gustaf's marriage to Eva Vilhelmina von Schantz resulted in three daughters and three sons, including Carl Robert Mannerheim. His third child Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (Carl Gustaf junior; 1867–1951) was born in 1867 at Louhisaari Castle , which the family had to sell in 1880 for financial reasons. In 1887 he joined the army of the Russian tsar , rose to the rank of general and, after Finland's independence in 1917, shaped the country's fate until his death. Gustaf Mannerheim's older brother Carl became a count; he himself was only entitled to the title of baron .

Genealogical overview

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Janne Nyyssönen: Mannerheimin suku onkin lähtöisin Saksasta. In: Kaleva.fi. March 1, 2007, archived from the original on March 16, 2009 ; accessed on October 2, 2018 (Finnish, "The Mannerheim family came from Germany").
  2. ↑ Friherrliga atten no. 18: Mannerheim. In: Finlands Riddarhus. Archived from the original on March 16, 2012 ; accessed on October 2, 2018 (Swedish, entry in the gender index of the Finnish knight house ).
  3. ↑ Grevliga at no. 8: Mannerheim. In: Finlands Riddarhus. Archived from the original on March 16, 2012 ; accessed on October 2, 2018 (Swedish, entry in the gender index of the Finnish knight house).