Governor-General of Finland

The Governor-General was in Finland to 1917, the highest local representative of the monarch. While the office during the Swedish period was awarded to 1809 only sporadically and with varying powers, the Governor-General was in the time of the Grand Duchy of Finland the constitutionally highest representatives of the Tsar and chairman of the Finnish Senate.

Governors-General of the Swedish krona

In Swedish Empire governors general were used primarily as administrators of conquered territories, especially in the great power phase of the 17th century. Depending on the political situation and requirements governors general were also used for parts of the core area of the empire. These core areas even today's Finland belonged. Position and function of this county governors-general, who were responsible for several provinces across as a rule, was not generally fixed, but depended crucially on the person of the governor and his relationship to the Crown from.

The following persons were also in Finland the title of the Governor General:

  • Nils Turesson Bielke (1623 - 1631)
  • Gabriel Bengtsson Oxenstierna (1631 - 1634)
  • Per Brahe the Younger (1637 - 1641; 1648 - 1654)
  • Gustaf Evertsson Horn (1657 - 1658)
  • Herman Fleming (1664 - 1669)
  • Carl Nieroth (1710 - 1712)
  • Gustav Friedrich von Rosen (1747 - 1751)

Governors-General of the Russian Tsar

Tsarist Russia conquered the Swedish- Russian war of 1808 /09, Finland. The Treaty of 1809 Fredrikshamn the losing Sweden was forced to cede Finland to Russia. The Russian Tsar was Head of State of Finland, which was an autonomous Grand Principality equipped a largely autonomous part of the Russian Empire.

The Russian Tsar was represented both in civil and in military affairs by the Russian Governor-General (Finnish Suomen kenraalikuvernööri, Swedish över Generalguvernör Finland) in Finland. The Governor General led from 1808 to 1917 officially preside over the Senate, a Finnish government comparable governing body. Case of a tie in the Senate, his vote was decisive. He was the highest representative of the Russian crown and reports directly to the Tsar.

The Office of the Governor General of the Grand Duchy of Finland was clothed by the following persons:

  • Count Göran Magnus Sprengtporten (December 1, 1808 - June 17, 1809 )
  • Prince Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly (June 17, 1809 - February 1, 1810 )
  • Count Fabian Gotthard von Steinheil (1810 - 1813)
  • Baron Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt (1813 )
  • Count Fabian Gotthard von Steinheil (1814 - 1824)
  • Count Arseny Andreyevich Sakrewski (1824 - 1831)
  • Prince Aleksandr Sergeyevich Menshikov (1831 - 1855)
  • Count Friedrich Wilhelm Rembert von Berg (1855 - 1861)
  • Baron Platon Ivanovich Rokassowskij (1861 - 1866)
  • Count Nikolai Eagle Mountain (1866 - 1881)
  • Count Fyodor Logginowitsch Gentiles (1881 - 1898)
  • General Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov (August 29, 1898 - June 17, 1904 )
  • Prince Ivan Mikhailovich Obolensky (August 18, 1904 - November 18, 1905 )
  • Nikolai Nikolayevich Gerhard (6 December 1905 - February 2, 1908 )
  • Franz Albert Being (November 24, 1909 - March 16, 1917 )
  • Mikhail Aleksandrovich Stachowitsch (March 31, 1917 - September 17, 1917 )
  • Nikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov (17 September 1917 - November 7, 1917 )
  • Governor General (Finland )
  • Russian History
  • History of Sweden in the early modern period
  • List ( governors dependent territories )
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