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Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg
About Carl Enckell
- Carl Johan Alexis Enckell (7 June 1876 – 26 March 1959) was a Finnish politician, diplomat, officer and businessman. Enckell followed his father's steps in Russian military and rose to the Imperial Russian Guard.
- As he was not satisfied in the earnings, he studied mechanical engineering degree in Germany.
- Subsequently, he worked in Kuusankoski paper mill and in Helsinki-based engineering companies Hietalahti Shipyard and Engineering Works and Kone- ja Siltarakennus.
- During the 1910s Enckell worked in employers' organisations. In 1917, shortly before October Revolution, Enckell was appointed Finnish Minister–Secretary of State in Saint Petersburg.
- Following the Finnish Declaration of Independence, Enckell worked hard to get international recognition for the declaration.
- During the following years, Enckell worked as diplomat in Paris and later in League of Nations, in which he successfully pursued the Finnish interests in Ă…land crisis.
- He served as foreign minister in four short-lived cabinets during the early politically turbulent years of the young republic. Enckell moved to work in financial sector in the 1920s but made return into politics as Foreign Minister.
- He led Finland out from Second World War and contributed establishing friendly relations with Soviet Union and new foreign policy, the Paasikivi–Kekkonen doctrine. Enckell was married to German-born Lucy née Ponsonby-Lyons.
- They had four children, of whom Ralph Enckell became a notable diplomat.
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