Battle of Hyvinkää

Battle of Hyvinkää
	Part of the Finnish Civil War
	; Oskari Koivula, commander of the Hyvinkää Red Guard (front) and Emil Ylén (left) in 1918
Date	19–21 April 1918; (2 days)
Location	Hyvinkää, Finland60°37′49.055″N 24°51′31.684″E / 60.63029306°N 24.85880111°E
Result	German victory
Belligerents
German Empire	Finnish Reds
Commanders and leaders
Konrad Wolf	Oskari Koivula; Topias Harju; Jalmari Ranta
Strength
c. 3,000 Germans	300–500 in the combat units
Casualties and losses
21 Germans killed	c. 50 killed or executed
	Location within Finland Battle of Hyvinkää (Europe)

The Battle of Hyvinkää was fought during the Finnish Civil War on 19-21 April 1918, when troops from the German Baltic Sea Division marching from Helsinki conquered the locality from the Reds who had held it for three months. The Germans attacked Hyvinkää from three directions; from the direction of Klaukkala and Nurmijärvi via the Hanko railway line and along the Tuusula highway and mainline. The main defense positions of the Reds were along the Hanko track in Hyvinkäänkylä, after which fierce battles took place in the station area. After the well-taken invasion, a bloody follow-up began, with Whites executing about 150 Reds, actual or suspected, during May.