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Ensio Uoti

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Ensio Uoti

Ensio Ilmari Uoti(5 September 1897Pori– 1966Aachen[1]) was a Finnish politician andNaziwho in the 1930s was the leader of theFinnish-Socialist Workers' Party(SSTP).

Life

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Ensio Uoti's parents were pastor Juho Henrik Uoti, a knownanarchist,and Augusta Matilda Laurila (1863–1936), a primary school teacher. Uoti took part in many battles in theFinnish civil warand joined the German army in 1918.[2]In 1919, he moved to Germany to study engineering, after which Uoti visited Finland only occasionally. Uoti graduated as Master of Science in 1924 fromAachen University of Technologymetallurgy department and subsequently worked in the Finnish Army as an engineer officer. Uoti had metGottfried Feder,a Nazi economic theorist in Germany who greatly influenced his thinking. According to Uoti, the role of the state in economic life should be strengthened to eliminate the influence of “foreigner groups” associated with capitalism, especially Jews.[3]

In the 1930s, Uoti was active in multiple Finnish Nazi parties, theNational Socialist Union of Finland,thePatriotic People's Movementand theFinnish People's Organisation.After this, Uoti co-founded theFinnish-Socialist Workers' Partyin November 1934.[4]

The SSTP participated in the 1936 parliamentary elections in the Uusimaa constituency with the slogan "better pay for work". Cars equipped with party election advertisements touredHelsinki,attracting attention thanks to the large swastika banners.[4]The SSTP was abolished after the Continuation War under Article 21 of the Ceasefire Agreement (which entered into force on 23 September 1944) on 12 October 1944.[5]

In the autumn of 1939, Uoti was sent toBerlinon a diplomatic mission. According to his own account, Uoti got to meetHeinrich Himmler,who would have said that Germany would not allow the occupation of Finland and that in two years' time Germany and the Soviet Union would be at war. According to Uoti, Germany would have offered to send a relief mission of 100,000 men to Finland as early as January 1940 via Åland if the Finnish government were to become "German-friendly". During the trip, however, Uoti defended his dissertation on Finnish monetary and fiscal policy in Berlin, and after returning to Finland in February 1940, he reported on his trip to Foreign MinisterVäinö Tanner.After theWinter War,Uoti was sentenced to six months in prison for official misconduct, and was onValpo'swatchlist as a suspected spy.[6][7][8]

Works

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  • Kansan työ.Suomalaissosialistisia julkaisuja N:o 1. Suomalaissosialistinen työväen puolue, Helsinki 1935
  • Kansan valta.Suomalaissosialistisia julkaisuja N:o 2. Suomalaissosialistinen työväen puolue, Helsinki 1935
  • Die Geld- und Finanzpolitik Finnlands nach Erlangung der Selbstständigkeit nebst einem Exkurs über die Wohnbautätigkeit in den Städten: ein Beitrag zur Kritik der liberalen Wirtschaftspolitik;dissertation (Universität Berlin, Fakultät der Staatswissenschaftlichen). Rudolf Bau, Berlin 1940
  • Näin tahtoi valtiomies – Tämän saivat aikaan diletantit: suomalaisessa kansallissosialistisessa kentässä mukana olleen toimijan” testamentti”.Tekijä, Helsinki 1955

References

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  1. ^"Kuolleita".Helsingin Sanomat. 1966-06-24. p. 6.
  2. ^Kansallis-sosialisti 30.06.1933 Vaalinumero
  3. ^Tommi Kotonen:Politiikan juoksuhaudat – Äärioikeistoliikkeet Suomessa kylmän sodan aikana,s. 76–77, 79–81. Atena, Jyväskylä 2018.
  4. ^abEkberg 1991, s. 95–99.
  5. ^Mikko Uola (1999)."Suomi sitoutuu hajottamaan...": Järjestöjen lakkauttaminen vuoden 1944 välirauhansopimuksen 21. artiklan perusteella.Suomen Historiallinen Seura. pp. 262–271.ISBN951-710-119-8.
  6. ^Roselius, Aapo – Silvennoinen, Oula – Tikka, Marko (2016). "Kerran Suomessa taistellaan – suomalainen fasismi ja sota".Suomalaiset fasistit – mustan sarastuksen airuet.WSOY. p. 345,346.ISBN978-951-0-42327-1.{{cite book}}:CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  7. ^Teemu Planting:Ensio Uotin suomalaissosialismi. Plagiaatti Hitlerin Mein Kampfista - tiivistelmä,Helsingin yliopisto, valtiotieteellinen tiedekunta, Politiikan ja talouden tutkimuksen laitos 2013.
  8. ^"DSpace".helda.helsinki.fi.Retrieved2023-12-13.