Taavetti Laatikainen (27 July 1886 – 15 April 1954) was a Finnish General of Infantry and a member of the Jäger movement.

[2] Following the end of the civil war, he continued his military career commanding first a company and then a battalion, being promoted to the rank of captain in 1919.

[5] While in these roles, he was made a knight of the Order of the White Rose of Finland in 1923 and promoted to a colonel in 1928.

[2] At the start of the Finno-Soviet Winter War in late 1939, Laatikainen was the commander of the 1st Division, which fought on the Karelian Isthmus as part of the II Corps.

The 1st Division was able to reach the area of Perkjärvi before being stopped by heavy resistance and larger Soviet armored formations.

[2][7] He would keep this command after the end of the war, leading efforts to improve the Finnish defences in the area of Lake Kivijärvi and Saimaa.

[10] As part of this reorganization, Laatikainen was given command of the II Corps[11] which participated in the Finnish invasion of the Karelian Isthmus by occupying the Khiytola–Elisenvaara area and thus severing the Soviet land connection north of Lake Ladoga.

[2] The corps was then moved to East Karelia, where it advanced to the isthmus between Medvezhyegorsk and Lake Segozero and was renamed Maaselkä Group.

[14][15] Laatikainen would keep this post until March 1944, when he took command of the Finnish IV Corps on the eastern Karelian Isthmus.

[18] In addition to the Finnish Mannerheim Cross, Laatikainen also received several foreign awards.