The Death of a General

[PeterF]

Non Finns can earn themsleves a few brownie points with their Finnish friends by knowing a little about a great and much respected Finn who died yesterday.
His death is mentioned in the Int Hesa..but here is more info about him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Ehrnrooth

[Tom and Jerry]

And to know something about the whole family of Ehrnrooth

Georg Ehrnrooth (63) in the board of directors of Nokia.

A few years ago there was a nice article in Helsingin Sanomat about Lohja and Georg Ehrnrooth.

[PeterF]

And to know something about the whole family of Ehrnrooth

Georg Ehrnrooth (63) in the board of directors of Nokia.

A few years ago there was a nice article in Helsingin Sanomat about Lohja and Georg Ehrnrooth.

Ehrnrooth is not an un common Swedish/Finnish family name.
But ...
http://www.nokia.ie/nokia/0,,29725,00.html
Does look very like the late General could of been his father..
http://www.helsinki-hs.net/picpage.asp?IsoID=4W4AZ4FYw
There is also a foundation giving grants so the family is not short of a few €
http://www.foundationweb.net/ehrnrooth/foundation.htm

[Tom and Jerry]

It is the father of Georg and the family Ehnrooth has it's own investment company. I forgot the name though, but if you have the electronic version of the blue book you can look it up.

[Hank W.]

"There will be a full obituary of General Adolf Ehrnrooth among the weekly articles on Tuesday next week. "
http://www.helsinki-hs.net/news.asp?id=20040227IE2

[Tom and Jerry]

There are articels in genos about this family. It goes quite a few hunderd years back for the family ehrnrooth. I'm not so good in family histories, so, I don't know whether this is the right one, but perhaps this is the grandfather:

Chefer

1. Ehrnrooth, Gustav Robert (1854-1861), generallöjtnant, f. 31.1.1821 i Lovisa, d. 25.10.1911 i Helsingfors. Fldr. kommendören för Finska divisionen, generallöjtnanten Gustav Adolf Ehrnrooth och Johanna Kristina von Platen. - Gift 12.9.1853 i Pernå med grevinnan Vilhelmina Ottiliana de Geer till Tervik, f. 12.9.1834 i Lovisa, d. 29.6.1916 i Pernå. Fldr. godsägaren, kaptenen, greve Robert Fredrik de Geer till Tervik och Lovisa Fredrika Fock.