Kurt Martti Wallenius (1893 - 1984) was a finnish Lieutenant-General. 1893 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Lieutenant General is a military rank used in many countries. ...

Born in June 25 in 1893 in Kuopio. Died in May 3 in 1984 in Helsinki. June 25 is the 176th day of the year (177th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 189 days remaining. ... 1893 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Kuopio is a Finnish city located in the province of Eastern Finland and the region of Northern Savonia. ... May 3 is the 123rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (124th in leap years). ... 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Helsinki (pronounced with the stress on the first syllable in Finnish: ), or Helsingfors in Swedish   listen?, is the capital of Finland. ...

In 1915 Wallenius travelled to Germany where he enrolled in the Royal Prussian 27th Jäger Battallion. He took part in the battles on the Misse-river. After returning to Finland as part of the Finnish Jäger troops Wallenius took part in the Finnish Civil War on the side of the whites. He commanded a platoon in Tervola and Tornio. He was later appointed the commander of the troops around Kuolajärvi and Kuusamo. Here he was given the command of the northern group in the failed Viena expedition. 1915 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... The Jäger troops were volunteers from Finland in Germany trained as Jägers (elite light infantry) during World War I. It was one of many means by which Germany intended to weaken Russia and to cause Russias loss of western provinces and dependencies. ... The Civil War in Finland was fought from January to May 1918, between the Reds (punaiset), i. ... The White Guards is one translation of the Finnish term Suojeluskunta (plural: Suojeluskunnat, Finland-Swedish: Skyddskår) that unfortunately has received many different translations to English, for instance: Security Guard, Civil Guard, National Guard, White Militia, Defence Corps, Protection Guard, Protection Corps and Protection Militia. ... See also Platoon (movie) and platoon (automobile) for the concept for reducing traffic congestion. ... Tervola is a municipality of Finland. ... Tornio (Torneå in Swedish) is a municipality in Lapland, Finland. ... Kuusamo is a municipality of Finland. ... The Viena expedition was a military expedtition by Finnish volunteer forces to liberate White Karelia (or Vienan Karjala in Finnish) from the Bolsheviks in March 1918. ...

After the Civil War Wallenius commanded the troops in North-Western Finland, the Salla Regiment and the 1st Border Guard Regiment of Lapland. In the 1920s he was briefly made a military attache in Berlin. In 1930 he was promoted to Lieutenant-General. Sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or primarily in North America as the Roaring Twenties. // Events and trends Technology John T. Thompson invents Thompson submachine gun, also known as Tommy gun John Logie Baird invents the first working television system (1925) Charles Lindbergh becomes the first person to fly...   Berlin? (pronounced: , German ) is the capital of Germany and its largest city, with 3,426,000 inhabitants (as of January 2005); down from 4. ... 1930 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Lieutenant General is a military rank used in many countries. ...

In the 1930s Wallenius became involved in right-wing activities. He was one of the leaders of the Lapua movement. He was imprisoned twice for a total of over one year. // Events and trends The 1930s were spent struggling for a solution to the global depression. ... Lapua Movement (Lapuan liike) was a political movement in Finland, started in 1929, initially dominated by ardent anti-Communists, emphasizing the legacy of the nationalist activism, the White Guards and the Civil War in Finland, however soon turning into more of a Fascist movement. ...

When the Winter War began, Commander-in-Chief of Finnish troops marshal Mannerheim appointed Wallenius as the commander of the Lapland Group. The troops under his command repulsed numerically superior Soviet troops at Salla and Petsamo. The Winter War (also known as the Soviet-Finnish War or the Russo-Finnish War) broke out when the Soviet Union attacked Finland on November 30, 1939, three months after the start of World War II. As a consequence, the Soviet Union was expelled from the League of Nations on... Commander-in-Chief (in NATO-lingo often C-in-C or CINC pronounced sink) is the commander of all the military forces within a particular region or of all the military forces of a state. ... The famous Mannerheims equestrian statue by the Mannerheim road in downtown Helsinki, the capital of Finland Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (June 4, 1867 – January 28, 1951) was Finlands reputed Commander-in-Chief and later President of Finland (1944–1946). ... The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) (Russian: (СССР)   listen?; tr. ... Salla is a municipality of Finland and is located in Lapland. ... The area of Petsamo (Pechenga in Russian) in northern Lapland, indigenously inhabited by Samis, came to Finland in 1920 and to the Soviet Union in 1944. ...

After the Winter War Wallenius retired and lived in a old cabin in Rovaniemen maalaiskunta writing books and articles. Auttiköngäs is located in the South-Eastern corner of Rovaniemen maalaiskunta. ...