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Kalervo Kurkiala (born Kalervo Groundstroem, 16 November 1894 – 26 December 1966) was a Finnish soldier who later became a pastor. During World War I he served as a volunteer in the German light infantry, his first engagement being on the Misa River in Latvia on the eastern front in 1916. He was a battalion commander in the White Army during the Finnish Civil War, which broke out in 1918. After being ordained in 1919, for a while he was an army chaplain before assuming civilian duties as a pastor and teacher. For several years he served with the Seamen's mission in Australia. During World War II, in 1941 Kurkiala volunteered as chaplain to the Finnish volunteer brigade in the Waffen-SS. After the war, for many years he was a pastor in Sweden. ==Birth and early education== Kalervo Groundstroem was born in Längelmäki on 16 November 1894. His parents were Karl Johan Gabriel Groundstroem and Aina Fredrika Widbom. His brother was ''jäger'' Captain Ensio Groundstroem. In 1913 Groundstroem graduated from the Helsinki Normal school and joined the ''Hämäläinen'' student nation. He studied at the Theological Faculty of the University of Helsinki between 1913 and 1915, gaining a first degree in 1914. Finland was part of the Russian empire throughout Groundstroem's childhood and early manhood. A degree of civil liberty was obtained in 1907, with a parliament elected under universal suffrage. However, the parliament was often dissolved by reactionary tsarist Governors General and many Finns despaired of gaining full political rights. Some sympathized with the Russian revolutionaries who were preparing to use force to topple the tsarist regime. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kalervo Kurkiala」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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