Gustav Evertsson Horn, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gustav Evertsson Horn

Finnish-Swedish politician and Field Marshal

Date of Birth: 28-May-1614

Place of Birth: Lemu, South-Western Finland Regional State Administrative Agency, Finland

Date of Death: 27-Feb-1666

Profession: politician

Nationality: Finland, Sweden, Russia, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Baron Gustav Evertsson Horn of Marienburg (May 28, 1614 – February 27, 1666) was a Finnish-Swedish military and politician.
He was a member of the Privy Council of Sweden and Governor General. Horn, the son of Field Marshal Evert Horn, was born in 1614 in Southwest Finland, at the time a part Sweden.
He became captain in 1635, and a colonel in 1640.
In 1651, he was, along with cousin Henrik Horn, raised to a baron.
Gustav Horn became a member of the Swedish Privy Council in 1653, and in the following year, he was assigned the role of Governor General of Ingria and Kexholm, an office he left for the assignment of Governor General of Finland in 1657.
In 1656 he was appointed general, in 1658 rikstygmästare and in 1663 field marshal.
The latter year he also became Governor General of Bremen-Verden.
Gustav Evertsson Horn died in Stade, Germany, in 1666.