Part of the Finnish Civil War in the Eastern Front of World War I
Colonel von Brandenstein and Major Kalm greeting each other in the main street
Date
19 April – 1 May 1918 (1 week and 5 days)
Location
Lahti, Finland
Result
Decisive White Victory
Belligerents
German Empire Finnish Whites
Finnish Reds
Commanders and leaders
Otto von Brandenstein Hans Kalm
Nestor Linnanen Teodor Huurre
Strength
800 Germans 3,000 Whites
800 members of the Lahti Red Guard ~10,000 armed refugees
Casualties and losses
64 Germans killed ~20 Whites killed
at least 200 killed ~30,000 captured[1]
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Finnish Civil War
Kämärä
Vilppula
Oulu
Ruovesi
Tornio
Antrea
Åland
Varkaus
Rautu
Tampere
Länkipohja
Lempäälä
Ahvenkoski
Helsinki
Hyvinkää
Lahti
Viipuri
Hämeenlinna
Syrjäntaka
Red artillery in the Radiomäki Hill
Battle of Lahti was a 1918 Finnish Civil War battle, fought from 19 April to 1 May between the German troops and Finnish Whites against the Finnish Reds in Lahti, Finland. Together with the Battle of Viipuri, from 24 to 29 April, it was the last major battle of the war.
The German unit Detachment Brandenstein, commanded by colonel Otto von Brandenstein, attacked Lahti on 19 April, taking the town by the next evening. At the same time, a column of tens of thousands of Red refugees was approaching Lahti from the west. On 22 April, the Reds launched a counterattack in order to break through the German lines and clear the way for the fleeing people. The attempt failed and the Reds finally surrendered on 1 May. As a result, the Whites and Germans captured about 30,000 Reds and their family members who were placed in a concentration camp in the outskirts of Lahti.
^Järvelin, Antti (1998). "Valkoisten voitto varmistui lopullisesti" (in Finnish). University of Tampere. Archived from the original on 2 May 2016. Retrieved 23 December 2016.
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Global Information
German Empire
Finnish Whites
Finnish Reds