Military career Boeckmann pursued a long military career in the
Imperial Russian Army, commanding the
8th Cavalry Division from 1899 to 1904, the
12th Army Corps from 1904 to 1905, and the
20th Army Corps from 1905 to 1906. He led the suppression of the uprising in
Courland during the
Russian Revolution of 1905, and from 1906 to 1908 commanded the
22nd Army Corps stationed in Finland.
Governor-General of Finland Boeckmann succeeded
Nikolai Gerhard as the
governor-general of Finland in February 1908. In May 1908,
Leo Mechelin's constitutional senate was forced to resign and was replaced by a coalition senate led by
Edvard Hjelt. Most of the senators resigned in April 1909, however, following a dispute over a land lease decree. Boeckmann proposed that native Finns serving in the Russian military outside Finland be appointed to the senate, a solution that was accepted and led to the formation of the so-called Admiral Senate in October 1909. In the summer of 1909, Boeckmann responded to a petition from Finns by stating that, if it were up to him, Finnish laws would be upheld. This statement provoked the nationalist Russian press, and at the end of November 1909, Boeckmann was forced to submit his resignation.
Later life He was appointed to the
State Council in 1909 but took little further part in public life. After the
Russian Revolution, he returned to Finland and spent his final years at the Halila sanatorium in
Nykyrka on the
Karelian Isthmus as a guest of the Finnish state. == Awards ==