Woldemar Hägglund
Finnish general
Died when: 69 years 186 days (834 months)Star Sign: Leo
Johan Woldemar Hägglund (August 10, 1893 – February 12, 1963) was a Finnish lieutenant general (Finnish: kenraaliluutnantti) in the Finnish Army in the Second World War, and an early volunteer of the Jäger Movement.
He participated in the Eastern Front of World War I, the Finnish Civil War, the Winter War and the Continuation War, commanding army corps in the latter two.
Between 1944 and 1945, he was in charge of a committee investigating Finnish war crimes, especially those committed against prisoners-of-war.
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