Finnish Party

The Finnish Party ( Finnish: Suomalainen Puolue ) was a conservative- bourgeois party of fennomanen movement belonging to the Russian Empire Grand Duchy of Finland. The aim of the party was to raise the Finnish as the official language. Their ideological leaders included, among others Johan Vilhelm Snellman the philosopher, Yrjö Koskinen and Johan Richard Danielson Kalmari.

While about Young Finnish Party concessions to the Russian Tsar negatively offset by the members of the Finnish party gave themselves more loyal.

After the independence of Finland in 1917, the language issue was resolved. In December 1918, the party broke up. The majority of the Finnish party came here at the newly established National Coalition Party. Their goal was the introduction of a constitutional monarchy in Finland. The party leadership saw in a monarchy as a bulwark against socialism. A liberal -minded minority formed the National Progressive Party, which was to exist until 1951. In the first election after independence, the Coalition Party came to 15.17% of the vote, the Progress Party received 12.81%.

Results in the Reichstag elections

( 1) electoral alliance with the Young Finnish Party and the People's Party, a total of 299 516 votes, 30.17 % and 61 seats.

Known members and supporters

  • Kyosti Haataja (1881-1956), from 1917 to the Finnish Party Member of Parliament
  • Lauri Ingman (1868-1934), 1918/19 and 1924/25, Prime Minister of Finland for the Coalition Party
  • Juho Kusti Paasikivi (1870-1956), from 1907 to 1909 and from 1910 to 1913 for the Finnish party in parliament. PAASIKIVI later became a member of the Coalition Party and was President from 1946 to 1956 and had been in 1918 and Prime Minister from 1944 to 1946.
  • Väinö Tanner (1881-1966), was up to his Hamburg residence 1902/ 03 as supporters of the Finnish party. The later social democrat and Prime Minister worked as an editor for the Finnish party newspaper close to Viipuri.
  • Historic Party ( Finland)
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