Finnish party
The Finnish Party ( Finnish : Suomalainen Puolue) was a conservative - Civil Party of fennomanen movement in the Russian Empire belonging Grand Duchy of Finland . The party's aim was to make Finnish the official language . Its ideological leaders included the philosopher Johan Vilhelm Snellman , Yrjö Koskinen and Johan Richard Danielson-Kalmari .
While the Young Finnish Party was negative about concessions to the Russian tsar, the members of the Finnish party were rather loyal. In contrast to the Jungfinnen, the supporters of the Finnish Party were also called Old Finns .
In 1902, some of the old Finns joined the Jungfinnen to form the Constitutional Party . After Finland gained independence in 1917, the language problem was resolved. In December 1918 the party disbanded. The majority of the Finnish party joined the newly formed National Collection Party . Their goal was to establish a constitutional monarchy in Finland. The party leadership saw a monarchy as a bulwark against socialism . A liberal-minded minority founded the National Progressive Party , which was to exist until 1951. In the first elections after independence, the rallying party received 15.17% of the vote, the progressive party received 12.81%.
Results in Reichstag elections
| choice | Mandates (of 200) |
be right | percent |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1907 | 59 | 243 573 | 27.34 |
| 1908 | 55 | 205 892 | 25.44 |
| 1909 | 48 | 199 920 | 23.62 |
| 1910 | 42 | 174 661 | 22.07 |
| 1911 | 43 | 174 177 | 21.71 |
| 1913 | 38 | 143 982 | 19.88 |
| 1916 | 33 | 139 111 | 17.49 |
| 1917 | 32 | - (1) | - (1) |
(1) Election 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
- Alexandra Gripenberg , (1857–1913), one of the first female MPs after the parliamentary elections in Finland in 1907
- Kyösti Haataja (1881–1956), from 1917 Member of Parliament for the Finnish Party
- Lauri Ingman (1868–1934), 1918/19 and 1924/25 Prime Minister of Finland for the Gathering Party
- Juho Kusti Paasikivi (1870–1956), from 1907 to 1909 and 1910 to 1913 for the Finnish Party in Parliament. Paasikivi later became a member of the rallying party and was President from 1946 to 1956 and Prime Minister from 1918 and 1944 to 1946.
- Väinö Tanner (1881–1966) was a supporter of the Finnish party until his stay in Hamburg in 1902/03. The later Social Democrat and Prime Minister worked as an editor for the Finnish party-affiliated newspaper Wiipuri .