Governor-General of Finland

Governor-General of Finland
Coat of arms of Finland
Nikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov, the
last governor-general of Finland
AppointerKing of Sweden, later Emperor of Russia
Formation1623
First holderNils Turesson Bielke[1]
Final holderNikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov
Abolished1917

The governor-general of Finland[a] was the military commander and the highest administrator of Finland sporadically under Swedish rule in the 17th and 18th centuries and continuously in the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland between 1809 and 1917.

Swedish realm

After the final abolition of the Duchy of Finland and related feudal privileges in the late 16th century, the king of Sweden sporadically granted most or all of Finland under a specially appointed governor-general, who took care of the matters in the eastern part of the country more or less according to his own best judgement.[citation needed]

The best-known of these officials is Count Per Brahe the Younger, who served as Governor-General of Finland in the 17th century. His tenure, remembered as a period of reforms and progress in both economy and education, is referred to in Finnish as "kreivin aika" ("the count's era"). Over the centuries, the phrase has taken on a new meaning and is now commonly used to describe something happening just in time, as in the expression "Tulit kreivin aikaan" ("You arrived at the perfect moment").[2]

List of Swedish governors-general of Finland

Translation in Swedish: Generalguvernör av Finland

Governor-general In office
Nils Turesson Bielke 1623–1631[3]
Gabriel Bengtsson Oxenstierna 1631–1634[4]
Per Brahe the Younger 1637–1640 and 1648–1654[5]
Gustaf Evertsson Horn 1657[6]
Herman Fleming [fi; sv] 1664–1669[7]
Carl Nieroth 1710–1712[8]
Gustaf Otto Douglas (during the Russian occupation in Great Northern War) 1717–1721[9]
Johan Balthasar von Campenhausen [fi; sv] (during the Russian occupation in the War of 1741–1743) 1742–1743[10]
Gustaf Fredrik von Rosen [fi; sv] 1747–1752[11]

Grand Duchy of Finland

During the time when Finland was ruled by the Russian Empire as a grand duchy, the governor-general's position was permanent. He was viceroy of the emperor, who was not personally present in Helsinki, but resided in St Petersburg, just outside of Finnish borders. The governor-general was constitutionally the chairman of the Senate of Finland, the government in the autonomous grand duchy. The chairmanship he represented, with two votes in the Senate, belonged to the grand duke of Finland, a title held by the emperor of Russia. The governor-general was the highest representative of the emperor and received his instructions directly from the imperial government in Saint Petersburg.

Finnish citizenship was not required of the governor-general, contrary to all other highest positions such as senators and the minister-secretary of state. Most governors-general were Russians, men whom the emperor trusted as counterparts of potential Finnish separatism. Many of them, up to Baron Rokassovski [fi; ru], however were also made Finnish subjects, by granting them a Finnish nobility rank.

Many of the governors-general were disliked by the Finnish population. The first man on the post, Georg Magnus Sprengtporten, resigned after only a year. Another, Nikolai Bobrikov, was assassinated in 1904 by the Finnish nationalist Eugen Schauman. On the other hand, several governors-general worked in a way that guaranteed the Finnish autonomy in face of the interests of ministers of the imperial court.

The governor-general between 1831 and 1855, Prince Menshikov, sojourned his entire term in St Petersburg, being simultaneously the Russian minister of navy. Gubernatorial duties in Helsinki were cared for by the deputy governor-general. For most of the term, in that position was general Alexander Amatus Thesleff [fi; ru].

List of Russian governors-general of Finland

Translation in Russian: Генерал-губернатор Финляндии, romanized: general-gubernator Finlyandii

Governor-general In office
Göran Magnus Sprengtporten 1808–1809[12]
Michael Barclay de Tolly 1809–1810[13]
Fabian Steinheil 1810–1823 (acting until spring 1824)[14]
Arseny Zakrevsky 1823 (active from March 1824) – 1831[15]
Alexander Menshikov 1831–1855[16]
Friedrich Wilhelm Rembert von Berg 1855–1861[17]
Platon Rokassovsky [fi; ru] 1861–1866[18]
Nikolay Adlerberg 1866–1881[19]
Feodor Logginovich Heiden 1881–1897[20]
Stepan Goncharov [fi; ru] 1897–1898 (acting)[citation needed]
Nikolai Bobrikov 1898–1904[21]
Ivan Obolensky 1904–1905[22]
Nikolai Gerard 1905–1908[23]
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Böckmann 1908–1909[24]
Franz Albert Seyn 1909–1917[25]
Adam Lipsky [fi; ru] 1917 (acting)[citation needed]
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Stakhovich 1917[26]
Nikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov 1917[27]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Finnish: Suomen kenraalikuvernööri; Swedish: generalguvernör över Finland; Russian: генерал-губернатор Финляндии

References

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