Karl H. Wiik
Karl Harald Wiik (born April 13, 1883 in Helsinki ; † June 29, 1946 ibid) was a Finnish-Swedish politician and journalist . Wiik belonged to the left wing of the Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP). In 1944 he became the first chairman of the Democratic Union of the Finnish People (SKDL).
From 1903 Karl H. Wiik worked for various Swedish-language newspapers of the labor movement and became a member of the Swedish Workers' Union of Finland. He received his master's degree in philosophy in 1910. In 1911 he was elected to the Finnish state parliament for the first time. He had a mandate until 1918, but was no longer able to exercise it at the end, as he was imprisoned due to the civil war triggered by Finland's independence . From 1922 to 1929 and from 1933 to 1941 he again sat for the SDP in the Finnish parliament, but he and five other MPs with him had been expelled from the party in 1940 because of positions that were too left and demands for peace with the Soviet Union. In 1940/41 Wiik and the other five elected representatives formed the Socialist Group , of which he was chairman. He was then imprisoned again until 1944. After the end of the war in 1944 he sat again in parliament, after the parliamentary elections in 1945 for the SKDL, of which he was chairman in 1944. Wiik was a member of parliament and parliamentary group leader of the SKDL until his death in 1946.
Web links
- KH Wiik on eduskunta.fi
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| - | Chairman of the Democratic Union of the Finnish People in 1944 |
Carl-Johan Sundström |
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| SURNAME | Wiik, Karl H. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wiik, Karl Harald (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 13, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Helsinki |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 29, 1946 |
| Place of death | Helsinki |