Antero Johannes Svensson (30 November 1892 – 26 April 1946) was a Finnish major general, a member of the Jäger Movement and a recipient of the Mannerheim Cross.

[1] While starting his studies, he became deeply involved in the Jäger Movement, where Finnish volunteers received military training in Germany, becoming a recruiter in the Turku and Rauma regions.

[1] While in Germany, the Finnish volunteers formed the 27th Royal Prussian Jäger Battalion, fighting for the Imperial German Army on the Eastern Front of World War I.

[1] At the onset of the Finno-Soviet Winter War in November 1939, Svensson – by this point a colonel – was given command of the Finnish 2nd Brigade.

The brigade was initially held in reserve of the 1st Division, building field fortifications, but participated in combat on the Karelian Isthmus from mid-December 1939 to January 1940.

[5] The corps was tasked with the containment and destruction of the reinforced Soviet 168th Rifle Division surrounded in the area of Sortavala.

[1] The 7th Division its advance into East Karelia, where it reached the Svir close to the shore of Lake Onega by October 1941.

[1] Svensson died of heart attack on 26 April 1946 in Helsinki while visiting Hotel Torni, where the Allied Control Commission resided.

[21] Svensson is known for having been present in the 1941 execution of two of his division's men, Voitto Ahomäki and Toivo Mäkelä, who had refused to return to the front.

The execution inspired a similar scene in Väinö Linna's book The Unknown Soldier (Finnish: Tuntematon sotilas).