Kaarlo Edvard Kivekäs, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Finnish general
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Place of Birth: Kouvola, Southern Finland Province, Finland
About Kaarlo Edvard Kivekäs
- Kaarlo Edvard Kivekäs (6 December 1866, Valkeala – 19 February 1940, Hämeenlinna; original name Karl Edvard Backman) was a Finnish general.
- Educated at Hamina Cadet School (1886–1890), he served in the Russian army from 1890 on, in Pamir area, later at World War I.
- After the Finnish Civil War, he returned to Finland.
- He was the Chief of Defence of the Finnish Defence Forces in 1919.
- Kivekäs is recipient of the Latvian military Order of Lacplesis, 2nd class.
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