Kamen schwedische oder deutsche Mausergewehre im finnischen Bürgerkrieg zum Einsatz oder waren es nur Mosins?
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Kamen schwedische oder deutsche Mausergewehre im finnischen Bürgerkrieg zum Einsatz oder waren es nur Mosins?
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Von ProfessionalLevel908
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They used every rifle possible , and there were german troops fighting in Helsinki and swedish volunteers fighting for the whites. So yeah
according to wikipedia, if you believe that, the swedish mouser was only used in the Finnish Winter war and Continuation wars.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Mauser](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Mauser)
Mauser was The main rifle for german troops so in their hands it saw extensive use during The civil war. Swedish mausers came in Finnish inventory during and after Winter war but they where mainly distributed to AA troops and The navy.
If I remember correctly, the Finns used just about every gun they could get their hands on, including Italian Carcanos, and used pretty much any kind of firearm they could find with enough ammo to use, though mostly with rear troops so they wouldn’t need to build the supply chain up (as rear line troops don’t use much ammo). So they definitely used Swedish mausers, and I’m sure some soldiers picked up or used German ones as well. A German officer gave my great grandfather a Luger because he was more likely to use it (he was a kaukopartiomies, or a long range recon patrolman) and he carried it till he just buried it in the forest at some point because he didn’t have any paperwork for it 😭
As said by others, the German Mausers were mostly in use with German intervention troops. Swedish Mausers did not see use in the Finnish Civil War.
Rifles that definitely were used:
-1891 Mosin and its variations
-Arisaka Type 30 and Type 38 (rifles and carbines)
-Winchester 1895 (Russian contract)
-Russian Berdan II
-Steyr-Mannlicher (most likely weapons aid from the Bolsheviks to the Reds, captured from Austria-Hungary)
-The Vetterli (smuggled in pre-independence)
-Very small number of German Mauser rifles (in Finnish hands)
It should be noted that in 1919 the Finnish Government bought 8,000 Mauser M/98a cavalry rifles from France to equip Finnish cavalry. These were sold to Poland in 1924 in exchange for Mosins.