Family tree of Per Evind SVINHUFVUD

Scandinavian politician

Finnish Born Per Evind SVINHUFVUD AF QVALSTAD

President of Finland from 1931 to 1937

Born on December 15, 1861 in Sääksmäki, Finland , Finland

Died on February 29, 1944 in Luumäki, Finland

Born on december 15 39

Deceased on february 29 13

Born on Finland 7

Scandinavian politician 17

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Svinhufvud

Peter

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Peter Gustaf

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Per Gustaf

Olga

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Per Evind

1861 - 1944

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Svinhufvud was born the son of Pehr Gustaf Svinhufvud af Qvalstad, a sea captain, and Olga von Becker. His father drowned at sea off Greece in 1863, when Pehr Evind was only two years old. He spent his early childhood at the home of his paternal grandfather, Pehr Gustaf Svinhufvud af Qvalstad (a provincial treasurer of Häme), at Rapola, where the family had lived for five generations. The Svinhufvud's were a Swedophone noble family tracing their history back to Dalarna, Sweden. Pehr Gustaf Svinhufvud af Qvalstad, an army lieutenant in the reign of Karl XII, had moved from there to Rapola after the Great Northern War. The family had been ennobled in Sweden in 1574, and it was also introduced to the Finnish House of Nobility in 1818. Rapola was sold when his grandfather shot himself in 1866, and Svinhufvud moved to Helsinki with his mother and his sister.

He attended the Swedish-language high school in Helsinki. In 1878, at the age of 16, he enrolled at the Imperial Alexander University of Helsinki. There he gained a Bachelor's degree in 1881, and then completed a Master of Arts degree in 1882; his main subjects being Finnish, Russian and Scandinavian History. After this, he took a Master of Laws degree, graduating in 1886. In 1889, Svinhufvud married Alma (Ellen) Timgren (1869–1953). They had six children, Yngve (1890–1991), Ilmo (1892–1969), Aino (1893–1980), Eino (1896–1938), Arne (1904–1942), and Eivind (1908–1969).

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