Gustav Evertsson Horn

Baron Gustav Evertsson Horn
Governor General of Ingria
In office 1654–1657
Preceded by	Erik Stenbock
Succeeded by	Krister Klasson Horn
Governor General of Finland
In office 1657–1658
Preceded by	Per Brahe the Younger
Succeeded by	Herman Fleming
Governor General of Bremen-Verden
In office 1663–1666
Preceded by	Hans Christoff Königsmarck
Succeeded by	Henrik Horn
Personal details
Born	May 28, 1614 Lemu, Finland
Died	February 27, 1666(1666-02-27) (aged 51) Stade, Germany
Spouse(s)	Maria Mörner, Barbro Kurch, Maria Silfverhielm

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.^[1][2]

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